About
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Overview
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.
Known for
Acting |
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| 2024 | Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Godard Cinema | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Quando a Coisa Vira Outra | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | Les secrets de François Truffaut | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2019 | André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2019 | I shot Antoine Doinel | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | C'è tempo | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Alien Crystal Palace | Actor | Horus | 58 Average |
| 2018 | The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Actor | Jean | 59 Average |
| 2017 | M | Actor | Le père de Lila | 59 Average |
| 2016 | The Death of Louis XIV | Actor | Louis XIV | 59 Average |
| 2014 | François Truffaut l'insoumis | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Camille Rewinds | Actor | Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Le Havre | Actor | The Whistleblower | 63 Fair |
| 2010 | Sodankylä Forever | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | The Chalk Circle Man | Actor | Le Nermord | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Face | Actor | Antoine / King Herode | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water | Actor | Self / Antoine / King Herode | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | On the Trail of the New Wave | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Actor | Georges Franju | 58 Average |
| 2004 | A Wonderful Spell | Actor | Fernand | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ | Actor | Self (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Léaud de Hurle-dents | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | The Dreamers | Actor | Himself | 70 Good |
| 2002 | In the Darkness of Time | Actor | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The War in Paris | Actor | Haut Placé | 58 Average |
| 2001 | The Pornographer | Actor | Jacques Laurent | 57 Average |
| 2001 | What Time Is It There? | Actor | Jean-Pierre / Man at the Cemetery | 60 Fair |
| 2001 | Léaud l'unique | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2001 | 1968 - Without Losing Tenderness | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Marcorelle Affair | Actor | François Marcorelle | 58 Average |
| 2000 | A Matter of Taste | Actor | Investigating judge | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Innocent | Actor | Le poète | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Actor | (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 1997 | Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Just for Laughs | Actor | Nicolas Gardinier | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Irma Vep | Actor | René Vidal | 61 Fair |
| 1996 | Diary of a Seducer | Actor | Hugo | 58 Average |
| 1996 | My Man | Actor | Client | 58 Average |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | Actor | The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1994 | Nobody Loves Me | Actor | Lucien | 58 Average |
| 1993 | The Birth of Love | Actor | Marcus | 58 Average |
| 1993 | François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 1992 | La Vie de Bohème | Actor | Blancheron | 62 Fair |
| 1991 | Paris Awakens | Actor | Clément | 59 Average |
| 1991 | C'est la avie | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1990 | Out 1 | Actor | Colin | 60 Fair |
| 1990 | I Hired a Contract Killer | Actor | Henri | 61 Fair |
| 1989 | Bunker Palace Hotel | Actor | Solal | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Ministries of Art | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1988 | The Color of the Wind | Actor | Decourt | 58 Average |
| 1988 | 36 Fillette | Actor | Boris Golovine | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Jane B. by Agnès V. | Actor | The Angry Lover | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Lady Cops | Actor | Commissaire Bouvreuil | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Boran - Zeit zum Zielen | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1987 | Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel | Actor | Georg Ossegg | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company | Actor | Gaspard Bazin | 58 Average |
| 1986 | With All Hands | Actor | Marcel | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Treasure Island | Actor | Midas | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Just a Movie | Actor | Péter - a rendezõ | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | L'Herbe rouge | Actor | Lazuli | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | Vivement Truffaut | Actor | Self / Doinel (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Detective | Actor | Inspector Neveu | 58 Average |
| 1984 | Rebelote | Actor | Rémi Chauveau | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Paris Seen By... 20 Years After | Actor | René (segment 3) | 58 Average |
| 1984 | La cassure | Actor | Police Commissioner Rauffast | 58 Average |
| 1982 | Mersonne ne m'aime | Actor | Daniel Flipo-Risq | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | Pour Bonnie | Actor | Charles Blaine | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | Véra | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1981 | Help Me Dream | Actor | Mario | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Parano | Actor | Ignazio | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Le petit Pommier | Actor | Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Love on the Run | Actor | Antoine Doinel | 62 Fair |
| 1976 | Lola's Lolos | Actor | Bernard Dubois | 58 Average |
| 1976 | Hugs and Other Things | Actor | Tom | 58 Average |
| 1973 | Out 1: Spectre | Actor | Colin | 59 Average |
| 1973 | Day for Night | Actor | Alphonse | 69 Fair |
| 1973 | The Mother and the Whore | Actor | Alexandre | 62 Fair |
| 1973 | L'Éducation sentimentale | Actor | Frédéric Moreau | 69 Fair |
| 1972 | Last Tango in Paris | Actor | Tom | 66 Fair |
| 1971 | Two English Girls | Actor | Claude Roc | 61 Fair |
| 1971 | Out 1 | Actor | Colin | 70 Good |
| 1971 | The Lion Has Seven Heads | Actor | Preacher | 58 Average |
| 1971 | A Girl Is a Gun | Actor | Billy le Kid | 58 Average |
| 1970 | The Heirs | Actor | Danton | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Bed and Board | Actor | Antoine Doinel | 63 Fair |
| 1969 | Paul | Actor | Paul | 59 Average |
| 1969 | Pigsty | Actor | Julian Klotz | 61 Fair |
| 1969 | Le Gai Savoir | Actor | Émile Rousseau (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1969 | Bad Company | Actor | Daniel (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1968 | Dialogue 20-40-60 | Actor | Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds") | 59 Average |
| 1968 | Françoise et Udo... | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1968 | Concentration | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1968 | Stolen Kisses | Actor | Antoine Doinel | 65 Fair |
| 1967 | Weekend | Actor | Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 1967 | La Chinoise | Actor | Guillaume | 62 Fair |
| 1967 | The Oldest Profession | Actor | The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1967 | The Departure | Actor | Marc | 59 Average |
| 1967 | Made in U.S.A | Actor | Donald Siegel | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes | Actor | Daniel | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Love at Sea | Actor | The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema | 59 Average |
| 1966 | Masculin Féminin | Actor | Paul | 65 Fair |
| 1965 | Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou | Actor | Young Man in Cinema (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 1965 | Alphaville | Actor | Breakfast Waiter (uncredited) | 64 Fair |
| 1964 | Mata Hari, Agent H21 | Actor | Absalon | 58 Average |
| 1964 | Nadja in Paris | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1962 | Antoine and Colette | Actor | Antoine Doinel | 63 Fair |
| 1962 | Love at Twenty | Actor | Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette") | 59 Average |
| 1960 | Boulevard | Actor | Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo" | 59 Average |
| 1960 | Testament of Orpheus | Actor | Dargelos, the schoolboy | 62 Fair |
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Actor | Antoine Doinel | 76 Good |
| 1958 | King on Horseback | Actor | Pierrot | 58 Average |
| El Brujo | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 1974 | De quoi s'agit-il? | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
| 1967 | Made in U.S.A | Directing | Assistant Director | 59 Average |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou | Directing | Assistant Director | 68 Fair |
| 1965 | Alphaville | Directing | Assistant Director | 64 Fair |
| 1964 | The Married Woman | Directing | Assistant Director | 60 Fair |
| 1964 | The Soft Skin | Directing | Assistant Director Trainee | 62 Fair |
| 1964 | Mata Hari, Agent H21 | Directing | Assistant Director | 58 Average |
Crew |
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| 2024 | Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema | Crew | Thanks | 59 Average |
| 1970 | The Wild Child | Crew | Thanks | 63 Fair |