Jean-Pierre Léaud
Acting
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.
Born: May 28, 1944
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.
Out 1
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus while two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Concentration
La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.
Les secrets de François Truffaut
Cinépanorama
Day for Night
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
Testament of Orpheus
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
In the Darkness of Time
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.
Filmography
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (Archive Footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Horus
as Jean
as Le père de Lila
as Louis XIV
as Self (archive footage)
as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger
as The Whistleblower
as Self
as Le Nermord
as Antoine / King Herode
as Georges Franju
as Fernand
as Self (uncredited)
as Jean-Pierre Léaud
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Haut Placé
as Jacques Laurent
as Man at Cemetery
as François Marcorelle
as Investigating judge
as Le poète
as (uncredited)
as Nicolas Gardinier
as René Vidal
as Hugo
as Client
as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
as Lucien
as Marcus
as Self (archive footage)
as Blancheron
as Clément
as Colin
as Henri
as Solal
as Self
as Decourt
as Boris Golovine
as The Angry Lover
as Commissaire Bouvreuil
as Gaspard Bazin
as Midas
as Péter - a rendezõ
as Lazuli
as Inspector Neveu
as Self / Doinel (archive footage)
as Rémi Chauveau
as René (segment 3)
as Police Commissioner Rauffast
as Gaspard Bazin
as Daniel Flipo-Risq
as Charles Blaine
as Mario
as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
as Antoine Doinel
as Bernard Dubois
as Tom
as Self
as Colin
as Alphonse
as Alexandre
as Frédéric Moreau
as Tom
as Claude Roc
as Colin
as Preacher
as Billy le Kid
as Danton
as Antoine Doinel
as Paul
as Julian Klotz
as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
as Daniel (archive footage)
as Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
as Antoine Doinel
as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
as Guillaume
as The Bellboy
as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
as Marc
as Donald Siegel
as Daniel
as Paul
as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
as Absalon
as Self
as Antoine Doinel
as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"
as Dargelos, the schoolboy
as Antoine Doinel
as Pierrot
as Self
as Self