Jean-Pierre Léaud
Biography
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also worked with Aki Kaurismäki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacques Rivette, and Tsai Ming-liang. He is a significant figure of the French New Wave, having appeared in eight films by Jean-Luc Godard and seven by François Truffaut.
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Acting History
2024
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023Godard Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2022Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
2020Les secrets de François Truffaut as Self
2019Introducing My Father, François Truffaut as Self (Archive Footage)
2019André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019I shot Antoine Doinel as Self
2019C'è tempo as Self
2018Alien Crystal Palace as Horus
2018The Lion Sleeps Tonight as Jean
2017M as Le père de Lila
2016The Death of Louis XIV as Louis XIV
2014François Truffaut l'insoumis as Self (archive footage)
2012Camille Rewinds as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger
2011Le Havre as The Whistleblower
2010Sodankylä Forever as Self
2009The Chalk Circle Man as Le Nermord
2009Face as Antoine / King Herode
2009Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water as Self / Antoine / King Herode
2009On the Trail of the New Wave as Self (archive footage)
2005I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed as Georges Franju
2004A Wonderful Spell as Fernand
2004Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ as Self (uncredited)
2004Léaud de Hurle-dents as Self
2003The Dreamers as Jean-Pierre Léaud
2002In the Darkness of Time as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002The War in Paris as Haut Placé
2001The Pornographer as Jacques Laurent
2001What Time Is It There? as Man at Cemetery
20011968 - Without Losing Tenderness as Self
2001Léaud l'unique
2000The Marcorelle Affair as François Marcorelle
2000A Matter of Taste as Investigating judge
1999Innocent as Le poète
1998Elizabeth as (uncredited)
1997Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath as Self
1997Just for Laughs as Nicolas Gardinier
1996Irma Vep as René Vidal
1996Diary of a Seducer as Hugo
1996My Man as Client
1995One Hundred and One Nights as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
1994Nobody Loves Me as Lucien
1993The Birth of Love as Marcus
1993François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self (archive footage)
1992La Vie de Bohème as Blancheron
1991Paris Awakens as Clément
1991C'est la vie
1990Out 1 as Colin
1990I Hired a Contract Killer as Henri
1989Front woman as Marc
1989Bunker Palace Hotel as Solal
1989The Ministries of Art as Self
1988The Color of the Wind as Decourt
198836 Fillette as Boris Golovine
1988Jane B. by Agnès V. as The Angry Lover
1987Lady Cops as Commissaire Bouvreuil
1987Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
1987Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel as Georg Ossegg
1986Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company as Gaspard Bazin
1986With All Hands as Marcel
1986Treasure Island as Midas
1985Just a Movie as Péter - a rendezõ
1985L'Herbe rouge as Lazuli
1985Detective as Inspector Neveu
1985Vivement Truffaut as Self / Doinel (archive footage)
1984Rebelote as Rémi Chauveau
1984Paris Seen By... 20 Years After as René (segment 3)
1984La cassure as Police Commissioner Rauffast
1984Série noire as Gaspard Bazin
1982Mersonne ne m'aime as Daniel Flipo-Risq
1982Pour Bonnie as Charles Blaine
1982Véra
1981Help Me Dream as Mario
1981Parano as Ignazio
1981Le petit Pommier as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
1979Love on the Run as Antoine Doinel
1976Lola's Lolos as Bernard Dubois
1976Hugs and Other Things as Tom
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1973Out 1: Spectre as Colin
1973Day for Night as Alphonse
1973The Mother and the Whore as Alexandre
1973L'Éducation sentimentale as Frédéric Moreau
1972Last Tango in Paris as Tom
1971Two English Girls as Claude Roc
1971Out 1 as Colin
1971The Lion Has Seven Heads as Preacher
1971A Girl Is a Gun as Billy le Kid
1970The Heirs as Danton
1970Bed and Board as Antoine Doinel
1969Paul as Paul
1969Pigsty as Julian Klotz
1969Le Gai Savoir as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
1969Bad Company as Daniel (archive footage)
1968Dialogue 20-40-60 as Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
1968Françoise et Udo... as Self
1968Concentration
1968Stolen Kisses as Antoine Doinel
1967Weekend as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
1967La Chinoise as Guillaume
1967The Oldest Profession as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
1967Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000 as The Bellboy
1967The Departure as Marc
1967Made in U.S.A as Donald Siegel
1966Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes as Daniel
1966Masculin Féminin as Paul
1965Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit as Self
1965Pierrot le Fou as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
1965Alphaville as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
1965Love at Sea as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
1964Mata Hari, Agent H21 as Absalon
1964Nadja in Paris as Self
1962Love at Twenty as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
1962Antoine and Colette as Antoine Doinel
1960Boulevard as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"
1960Testament of Orpheus as Dargelos, the schoolboy
1959The 400 Blows as Antoine Doinel
1958King on Horseback as Pierrot
1956Cinépanorama as Self
1954Reflets de Cannes as Self
—El Brujo