Jean-Pierre Léaud

Known for: Acting
Born: May 28, 1944, Paris, France
Movies: 118

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.2

The Dreamers

2003

8.0

The 400 Blows

1959

7.2

Elizabeth

1998

6.9

Last Tango in Paris

1972

7.3

Pierrot le Fou

1965

7.8

Day for Night

1973

6.9

Alphaville

1965

7.0

Le Havre

2011

7.3

Stolen Kisses

1968

7.2

Masculin Féminin

1966

Filmography

2026	Léaud et les Bas	Self (Footage)
2024	Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema	Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023	Godard Cinema	Self (archive footage)
2022	Quando a Coisa Vira Outra	Self (archive footage)
2021	Morceaux de Cannes
2020	Les secrets de François Truffaut	Self
2019	Introducing My Father, François Truffaut	Self (Archive Footage)
2019	André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer	Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019	I shot Antoine Doinel	Self
2019	C'è tempo	Self
2018	Alien Crystal Palace	Horus
2018	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	Jean
2017	M	Le père de Lila
2016	The Death of Louis XIV	Louis XIV
2016	El Brujo
2014	François Truffaut l'insoumis	Self (archive footage)
2012	Camille Rewinds	Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger
2011	Le Havre	The Whistleblower
2009	The Chalk Circle Man	Le Nermord
2009	Visage	Antoine / King Herode
2009	Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water	Self / Antoine / King Herode
2009	On the Trail of the New Wave	Self (archive footage)
2005	I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed	Georges Franju
2004	A Wonderful Spell	Fernand
2004	Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’	Self (uncredited)
2004	Léaud de Hurle-dents	Self
2003	The Dreamers	Jean-Pierre Léaud
2002	In the Darkness of Time	(archive footage) (uncredited)
2002	The War in Paris	Haut Placé
2001	Léaud l'unique	Self - actor
2001	The Pornographer	Jacques Laurent
2001	What Time Is It There?	Man at Cemetery
2001	1968 - Without Losing Tenderness	Self
2000	The Marcorelle Affair	François Marcorelle
2000	A Matter of Taste	Investigating judge
1999	Innocent	Le poète
1998	Elizabeth	(uncredited)
1997	Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath	Self
1997	Just for Laughs	Nicolas Gardinier
1996	Irma Vep	René Vidal
1996	Diary of a Seducer	Hugo
1996	My Man	Client
1995	One Hundred and One Nights	The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
1994	Nobody Loves Me	Lucien
1993	The Birth of Love	Marcus
1993	François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits	Self (archive footage)
1992	La Vie de Bohème	Blancheron
1991	Paris Awakens	Clément
1991	C'est la vie
1990	Out 1	Colin
1990	I Hired a Contract Killer	Henri
1989	Paperback Woman	Marc
1989	Bunker Palace Hotel	Solal
1989	The Ministries of Art	Self
1988	The Color of the Wind	Decourt
1988	36 Fillette	Boris Golovine
1988	Jane B. by Agnès V.	The Angry Lover
1987	Lady Cops	Commissaire Bouvreuil
1987	Boran -Time to Aim	Assistant
1987	Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel	Georg Ossegg
1986	Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company	Gaspard Bazin
1986	With All Hands	Marcel
1986	Treasure Island	Midas
1985	Just a Movie	Péter - a rendezõ
1985	L'Herbe rouge	Lazuli
1985	Detective	Inspector Neveu
1985	Vivement Truffaut	Self / Doinel (archive footage)
1984	Rebelote	Rémi Chauveau
1984	Paris Seen By... 20 Years After	René (segment 3)
1984	La cassure	Police Commissioner Rauffast
1982	Mersonne ne m'aime	Daniel Flipo-Risq
1982	Pour Bonnie	Charles Blaine
1982	Véra
1981	Help Me Dream	Mario
1981	Parano	Ignazio
1981	Le petit Pommier	Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
1979	Love on the Run	Antoine Doinel
1976	Lola's Lolos	Bernard Dubois
1976	Hugs and Other Things	Tom
1973	Out 1: Spectre	Colin
1973	Day for Night	Alphonse
1973	The Mother and the Whore	Alexandre
1972	Last Tango in Paris	Tom
1971	Two English Girls	Claude Roc
1971	The Lion Has Seven Heads	Preacher
1971	A Girl Is a Gun	Billy le Kid
1970	The Heirs	Danton
1970	Bed and Board	Antoine Doinel
1969	Paul	Paul
1969	Pigsty	Julian Klotz
1969	Joy of Learning	Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
1969	Bad Company	Daniel (archive footage)
1968	Dialogue 20-40-60	Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
1968	The Twenty-Year-Olds	Adamik
1968	Françoise et Udo...	Self
1968	Concentration
1968	Stolen Kisses	Antoine Doinel
1967	Weekend	Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
1967	La Chinoise	Guillaume
1967	The Oldest Profession	The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
1967	Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000	The Bellboy
1967	The Departure	Marc
1967	Made in U.S.A	Donald Siegel
1966	Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes	Daniel
1966	Masculin Féminin	Paul
1965	Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit	Self
1965	Pierrot le Fou	Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
1965	Alphaville	Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
1965	Love at Sea	The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
1964	Mata Hari, Agent H21	Absalon
1964	Nadja in Paris	Self
1962	Antoine and Colette	Antoine Doinel
1962	Love at Twenty	Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
1960	Boulevard	Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"
1960	Testament of Orpheus	Dargelos, l'écolier
1959	The 400 Blows	Antoine Doinel
1958	King on Horseback	Pierrot

Directing, Writing & Producing

1974

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