Portrait of Jean-Pierre Léaud

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

Filmography

2024
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2023
Godard Cinema

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

as Self (archive footage)

2019
2019
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2019
C'è tempo

as Self

2017
M

as Le père de Lila

2016
2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Camille Rewinds

as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger

2011
Le Havre

as The Whistleblower

2009
2009
Face

as Antoine / King Herode

2005
2004
2003
The Dreamers

as Jean-Pierre Léaud

2002
In the Darkness of Time

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002
The War in Paris

as Haut Placé

2001
The Pornographer

as Jacques Laurent

2001
What Time Is It There?

as Man at Cemetery

2000
The Marcorelle Affair

as François Marcorelle

2000
A Matter of Taste

as Investigating judge

1999
Innocent

as Le poète

1998
Elizabeth

as (uncredited)

1997
Just for Laughs

as Nicolas Gardinier

1996
Irma Vep

as René Vidal

1996
My Man

as Client

1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)

1994
1993
1993
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

as Self (archive footage)

1992
La Vie de Bohème

as Blancheron

1991
Paris Awakens

as Clément

1990
Out 1

as Colin

1988
1988
36 Fillette

as Boris Golovine

1988
Jane B. by Agnès V.

as The Angry Lover

1987
Lady Cops

as Commissaire Bouvreuil

1986
1985
Just a Movie

as Péter - a rendezõ

1985
L'Herbe rouge

as Lazuli

1985
Detective

as Inspector Neveu

1985
Vivement Truffaut

as Self / Doinel (archive footage)

1984
Rebelote

as Rémi Chauveau

1984
1984
La cassure

as Police Commissioner Rauffast

1984
Série noire

as Gaspard Bazin

1982
Mersonne ne m'aime

as Daniel Flipo-Risq

1981
1981
Le petit Pommier

as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine

1979
Love on the Run

as Antoine Doinel

1976
Lola's Lolos

as Bernard Dubois

1974
1973
1973
Day for Night

as Alphonse

1973
1973
L'Éducation sentimentale

as Frédéric Moreau

1971
Two English Girls

as Claude Roc

1971
Out 1

as Colin

1971
A Girl Is a Gun

as Billy le Kid

1970
The Heirs

as Danton

1970
Bed and Board

as Antoine Doinel

1969
Paul

as Paul

1969
Pigsty

as Julian Klotz

1969
Le Gai Savoir

as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)

1969
Bad Company

as Daniel (archive footage)

1968
Dialogue 20-40-60

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

1968
Stolen Kisses

as Antoine Doinel

1967
Weekend

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

1967
La Chinoise

as Guillaume

1967
The Oldest Profession

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

1967
1967
Made in U.S.A

as Donald Siegel

1965
Pierrot le Fou

as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)

1965
Alphaville

as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)

1965
Love at Sea

as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema

1964
1964
1962
Antoine and Colette

as Antoine Doinel

1962
Love at Twenty

as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")

1960
Boulevard

as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"

1960
Testament of Orpheus

as Dargelos, the schoolboy

1959
The 400 Blows

as Antoine Doinel

1958
1956