Jean-Pierre Léaud
Department: 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.
Known For
The 400 Blows
1959
Stolen Kisses
1968
Bed and Board
1970
Antoine and Colette
1962
Love on the Run
1979
36 Fillette
1988
The Dreamers
2003
La Chinoise
1967
Last Tango in Paris
1972
Day for Night
1973
Pierrot le Fou
1965
Vivement Truffaut
1985
Masculin Féminin
1966
What Time Is It There?
2001
I Hired a Contract Killer
1990
Weekend
1967
Love at Twenty
1962
Irma Vep
1996
La Vie de Bohème
1992
Made in U.S.A
1967
Two English Girls
1971
Pour Bonnie
1982
Testament of Orpheus
1960
The Pornographer
2001
Bunker Palace Hotel
1989
With All Hands
1986
Godard Cinema
2023
Lola's Lolos
1976
Innocent
1999
Paul
1969
Paris Awakens
1991
The Color of the Wind
1988
Pigsty
1969
The Mother and the Whore
1973
Le Gai Savoir
1969
Detective
1985
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988
Visage
2009
Le Havre
2011
Boulevard
1960
A Matter of Taste
2000
C'è tempo
2019
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
1966
Out 1
1990
A Wonderful Spell
2004
Diary of a Seducer
1996
The War in Paris
2002
Camille Rewinds
2012
A Girl Is a Gun
1971
The Departure
1967
The Lion Has Seven Heads
1971
The Chalk Circle Man
2009
Nobody Loves Me
1994
Elizabeth
1998
Bad Company
1969
Dialogue 20-40-60
1968
Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
1987
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
2005
Hugs and Other Things
1976
Love at Sea
1965
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
Parano
1981
The Birth of Love
1993
1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
2001
Treasure Island
1986
Just for Laughs
1997
La cassure
1984
In the Darkness of Time
2002
L'Herbe rouge
1985
Alphaville
1965
Concentration
1968
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022
The Oldest Profession
1967
The Death of Louis XIV
2016
Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020
Out 1: Spectre
1973
The Ministries of Art
1989
The Marcorelle Affair
2000
Françoise et Udo...
1968
Rebelote
1984
M
2017
El Brujo
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Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965
King on Horseback
1958
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2018
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
1986
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1987
Help Me Dream
1981
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
2009
Véra
1982
Alien Crystal Palace
2018
The Heirs
1970
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019
C'est la vie
1991
Lady Cops
1987
Just a Movie
1985
Léaud l'unique
2001
My Man
1996
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
I shot Antoine Doinel
2019
Nadja in Paris
1964
Le petit Pommier
1981
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Léaud de Hurle-dents
2004
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984
Mata Hari, Agent H21
1964
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
Paperback Woman
1989
Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
1967
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019
The Twenty-Year-Olds
1968
Léaud et les Bas
2026
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Out 1
1971
Série noire
1984
L'Éducation sentimentale
1973
Spécial cinéma
1974
Cinépanorama
1956
Reflets de Cannes
1954