Jean-Pierre Léaud

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-05-28 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

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.

Acting

1959

The 400 Blows

as Antoine Doinel

1968

Stolen Kisses

as Antoine Doinel

1970

Bed and Board

as Antoine Doinel

1962

Antoine and Colette

as Antoine Doinel

1979

Love on the Run

as Antoine Doinel

1988

36 Fillette

as Boris Golovine

2003

The Dreamers

as Jean-Pierre Léaud

1967

La Chinoise

as Guillaume

1973

Day for Night

as Alphonse

1965

Pierrot le Fou

as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)

1985

Vivement Truffaut

as Self / Doinel (archive footage)

2001

What Time Is It There?

as Jean-Pierre / Man at the Cemetery

1967

Weekend

as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)

1962

Love at Twenty

as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")

1996

Irma Vep

as René Vidal

1992

La Vie de Bohème

as Blancheron

1967

Made in U.S.A

as Donald Siegel

1971

Two English Girls

as Claude Roc

1982

Pour Bonnie

as Charles Blaine

1960

Testament of Orpheus

as Dargelos, the schoolboy

2001

The Pornographer

as Jacques Laurent

1986

2023

Godard Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

1976

Lola's Lolos

as Bernard Dubois

1999

Innocent

as Le poète

1969

Paul

as Paul

1991

Paris Awakens

as Clément

1988

1969

Pigsty

as Julian Klotz

1973

1969

Le Gai Savoir

as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)

1985

Detective

as Inspector Neveu

1988

Jane B. by Agnès V.

as The Angry Lover

2009

Face

as Antoine / King Herode

2011

Le Havre

as The Whistleblower

1960

Boulevard

as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"

2000

A Matter of Taste

as Investigating judge

2019

C'è tempo

as Self

1990

Out 1

as Colin

2004

2002

The War in Paris

as Haut Placé

2012

Camille Rewinds

as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger

1971

A Girl Is a Gun

as Billy le Kid

1967

2009

1994

1998

Elizabeth

as (uncredited)

1969

Bad Company

as Daniel (archive footage)

1968

Dialogue 20-40-60

as Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")

2005

1965

Love at Sea

as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema

1981

Parano

as Ignazio

1993

1986

1997

Just for Laughs

as Nicolas Gardinier

1984

La cassure

as Police Commissioner Rauffast

2002

In the Darkness of Time

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1985

L'Herbe rouge

as Lazuli

1965

Alphaville

as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)

2022

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

as Self (archive footage)

1967

The Oldest Profession

as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)

2016

1973

2000

The Marcorelle Affair

as François Marcorelle

1984

Rebelote

as Rémi Chauveau

2017

M

as Le père de Lila

1958

1981

2009

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

as Self / Antoine / King Herode

1982

1970

The Heirs

as Danton

2014

François Truffaut l'insoumis

as Self (archive footage)

1993

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

as Self (archive footage)

2019

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1987

Lady Cops

as Commissaire Bouvreuil

1985

Just a Movie

as Péter - a rendezõ

1996

My Man

as Client

2009

On the Trail of the New Wave

as Self (archive footage)

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)

1964

1981

Le petit Pommier

as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine

1982

Mersonne ne m'aime

as Daniel Flipo-Risq

1984

1964

2024

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1989

Production

1964

Mata Hari, Agent H21

as Assistant Director

1974

1965

Pierrot le Fou

as Assistant Director

1970

1965

Alphaville

as Assistant Director

1964

The Married Woman

as Assistant Director

1967

Made in U.S.A

as Assistant Director

1964

The Soft Skin

as Assistant Director Trainee

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