Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born
May 5,
1944) is a
French actor.
Léaud was born in
Paris, France. He made his debut as an actor when he was 15 as
Antoine Doinel, an
alter ego for French
film director François Truffaut, in
The 400 Blows.
Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years â€" beside actress
Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and then wife, Christine. Those films are:
Antoine and Colette (1962),
Stolen Kisses (1968),
Bed & Board (1970) and
Love on the Run (1979). He also collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like
Two English Girls and
La Nuit américaine and became the actor most commonly affiliated with him.
Léaud also acted in films by other influential directors, such as
Jean-Luc Godard,
Bernardo Bertolucci and more recently
Olivier Assayas.
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The 400 Blows (
1959)
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Pierrot le fou (
1965)
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Masculin, féminin (
1966)
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La Chinoise (
1967)
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Weekend (
1967)
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Stolen Kisses (
1968)
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Porcile (
1969)
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Bed & Board (
1970)
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Two English Girls (
1971)
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Last Tango in Paris (
1972)
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The Mother and the Whore (1973)
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La Nuit américaine (
1973)
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Love on the Run (
1979)
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Détective (
1985)
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36 Fillette (
1988)
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I Hired a Contract Killer (
1990)
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My Man (1996)
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Irma Vep (
1996)
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Two Short Films by Francois Truffaut (
1999)
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Orphic Trilogy (
2000)
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Diary of a Seducer (
2001)
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What Time Is It There? (
2002)
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The Dreamers (
2004)
