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Acting

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Career: Active from 1959 to 2018, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 53
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Day for Night
90/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

César Awards · Honorary César
2000 · Won
Source: Wikidata
César Awards · Best Supporting Actor
1988 · Nominated
Lady Cops
Source: Wikidata
BAFTA Awards · Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
1961 · Nominated
The 400 Blows
Source: Wikidata

Characters

12

The characters Jean-Pierre Léaud played, best-known titles first.

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Tom

Jean-Pierre Léaud as un Spectateur

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Jean-Pierre Léaud as René Vidal

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Donald Siegel (as JPL)

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Inspector Neveu

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 47 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jean-Pierre Léaud Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.7, average 4.8
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Scare
1.1, average 2.6
Crime
2.4, average 3.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

French New Wave 10
Character Study 9
Character-Driven 7
Melancholy 6
Social Realism 4
Nostalgic 3
Tragic Romance 3
Melancholic Romance 3
Social Commentary 3
French Cinema 3
Dialogue-Driven 3
Melancholic Tone 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

97

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

Thanks

2010s

6 titles · average score 61

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

67

as Jean

Alien Crystal Palace

27

as Horus

69

as Le père de Lila

The Death of Louis XIV

67

as Louis XIV

Camille Rewinds

62

as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger

Le Havre

77

as The Whistleblower

2000s

11 titles · average score 62

Visage

64

as Antoine / King Herode

The Chalk Circle Man

as Le Nermord

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

60

as Georges Franju

A Wonderful Spell

as Fernand

The Dreamers

66

as Jean-Pierre Léaud

In the Darkness of Time

73

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The War in Paris

as Haut Placé

The Pornographer

41

as Jacques Laurent

What Time Is It There?

75

as Man at Cemetery

The Marcorelle Affair

54

as François Marcorelle

A Matter of Taste

62

as Investigating judge

1990s

13 titles · average score 67

Innocent

as Le poète

Elizabeth

77

as (uncredited)

Just for Laughs

65

as Nicolas Gardinier

Irma Vep

78

as René Vidal

Diary of a Seducer

52

as Hugo

One Hundred and One Nights

64

as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)

Nobody Loves Me

as Lucien

The Birth of Love

66

as Marcus

La Vie de Bohème

78

as Blancheron

Paris Awakens

63

as Clément

I Hired a Contract Killer

75

as Henri

Out 1

81

as Colin

1980s

23 titles · average score 65

36 Fillette

73

as Boris Golovine

Jane B. by Agnès V.

79

as The Angry Lover

Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel

as Georg Ossegg

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company

62

as Gaspard Bazin

Treasure Island

63

as Midas

as Marcel

Detective

74

as Inspector Neveu

Rebelote

as Rémi Chauveau

La cassure

as Police Commissioner Rauffast

Mersonne ne m'aime

as Daniel Flipo-Risq

Parano

as Ignazio

Help Me Dream

as Mario

1970s

16 titles · average score 74

Love on the Run

66

as Antoine Doinel

Hugs and Other Things

as Tom

The Mother and the Whore

84

as Alexandre

Day for Night

90

as Alphonse

Out 1: Spectre

68

as Colin

L'Éducation sentimentale

TV show · as Frédéric Moreau

Last Tango in Paris

73

as Tom

Two English Girls

81

as Claude Roc

Out 1

87

TV show · as Colin

The Lion Has Seven Heads

61

as Preacher

A Girl Is a Gun

43

as Billy le Kid

Bed and Board

75

as Antoine Doinel

1960s

25 titles · average score 72

Pigsty

67

as Julian Klotz

Stolen Kisses

87

as Antoine Doinel

Dialogue 20-40-60

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

La Chinoise

71

as Guillaume

Made in U.S.A

72

as Donald Siegel

The Departure

64

as Marc

Masculin Féminin

84

as Paul

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

75

as Daniel

Pierrot le Fou

75

as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)

Antoine and Colette

77

as Antoine Doinel

Love at Twenty

71

as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")

Boulevard

64

as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"

1950s

2 titles · average score 69

The 400 Blows

81

as Antoine Doinel

King on Horseback

56

as Pierrot