
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Acting • Born 1944-05-28
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.
Filmography
122 credits
The 400 Blows
Movie • 1959
Antoine Doinel

Stolen Kisses
Movie • 1968
Antoine Doinel

Love on the Run
Movie • 1979
Antoine Doinel

Antoine and Colette
Movie • 1962
Antoine Doinel

Bed and Board
Movie • 1970
Antoine Doinel

36 Fillette
Movie • 1988
Boris Golovine

The Dreamers
Movie • 2003
Jean-Pierre Léaud

La Chinoise
Movie • 1967
Guillaume

Last Tango in Paris
Movie • 1972
Tom

Day for Night
Movie • 1973
Alphonse

Pierrot le Fou
Movie • 1965
Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)

Vivement Truffaut
Movie • 1985
Self / Doinel (archive footage)

Masculin Féminin
Movie • 1966
Paul

What Time Is It There?
Movie • 2001
Man at Cemetery

I Hired a Contract Killer
Movie • 1990
Henri

Weekend
Movie • 1967
Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)

Love at Twenty
Movie • 1962
Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")

Irma Vep
Movie • 1996
René Vidal

La Vie de Bohème
Movie • 1992
Blancheron

Made in U.S.A
Movie • 1967
Donald Siegel

Two English Girls
Movie • 1971
Claude Roc

Pour Bonnie
Movie • 1982
Charles Blaine

Testament of Orpheus
Movie • 1960
Dargelos, the schoolboy

The Pornographer
Movie • 2001
Jacques Laurent

Bunker Palace Hotel
Movie • 1989
Solal

With All Hands
Movie • 1986
Marcel

Godard Cinema
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)

Innocent
Movie • 1999
Le poète

Lola's Lolos
Movie • 1976
Bernard Dubois

Paul
Movie • 1969
Paul

Paris Awakens
Movie • 1991
Clément

The Color of the Wind
Movie • 1988
Decourt

Pigsty
Movie • 1969
Julian Klotz

The Mother and the Whore
Movie • 1973
Alexandre

Le Gai Savoir
Movie • 1969
Émile Rousseau (uncredited)

Detective
Movie • 1985
Inspector Neveu

Jane B. by Agnès V.
Movie • 1988
The Angry Lover

Face
Movie • 2009
Antoine / King Herode

Le Havre
Movie • 2011
The Whistleblower

Boulevard
Movie • 1960
Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"

A Matter of Taste
Movie • 2000
Investigating judge

C'è tempo
Movie • 2019
Self

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Movie • 1966
Daniel

Out 1
Movie • 1990
Colin

A Wonderful Spell
Movie • 2004
Fernand

Diary of a Seducer
Movie • 1996
Hugo

The War in Paris
Movie • 2002
Haut Placé

Camille Rewinds
Movie • 2012
Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger

A Girl Is a Gun
Movie • 1971
Billy le Kid

The Departure
Movie • 1967
Marc

The Chalk Circle Man
Movie • 2009
Le Nermord

The Lion Has Seven Heads
Movie • 1971
Preacher

Nobody Loves Me
Movie • 1994
Lucien

Elizabeth
Movie • 1998
(uncredited)

Bad Company
Movie • 1969
Daniel (archive footage)

Dialogue 20-40-60
Movie • 1968
Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")

Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
Movie • 1987

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Movie • 2005
Georges Franju

Hugs and Other Things
Movie • 1976
Tom

Love at Sea
Movie • 1965
The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Movie • 1997
Self

Parano
Movie • 1981
Ignazio

The Birth of Love
Movie • 1993
Marcus

1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
Movie • 2001
Self

Treasure Island
Movie • 1986
Midas

Just for Laughs
Movie • 1997
Nicolas Gardinier

La cassure
Movie • 1984
Police Commissioner Rauffast

In the Darkness of Time
Movie • 2002
(archive footage) (uncredited)

L'Herbe rouge
Movie • 1985
Lazuli

Alphaville
Movie • 1965
Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)

Concentration
Movie • 1968

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)

The Oldest Profession
Movie • 1967
The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)

The Death of Louis XIV
Movie • 2016
Louis XIV

Les secrets de François Truffaut
Movie • 2020
Self

Out 1: Spectre
Movie • 1973
Colin

The Ministries of Art
Movie • 1989
Self

The Marcorelle Affair
Movie • 2000
François Marcorelle

Françoise et Udo...
Movie • 1968
Self

Rebelote
Movie • 1984
Rémi Chauveau

M
Movie • 2017
Le père de Lila

El Brujo
Movie

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
Movie • 1965
Self

King on Horseback
Movie • 1958
Pierrot

The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Movie • 2018
Jean

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Movie • 1986
Gaspard Bazin

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Movie • 2004
Self (uncredited)

Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
Movie • 1987
Georg Ossegg

Help Me Dream
Movie • 1981
Mario

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Movie • 2009
Self / Antoine / King Herode

Véra
Movie • 1982

Alien Crystal Palace
Movie • 2018
Horus

The Heirs
Movie • 1970
Danton

François Truffaut l'insoumis
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)

C'est la vie
Movie • 1991

Lady Cops
Movie • 1987
Commissaire Bouvreuil

Just a Movie
Movie • 1985
Péter - a rendezõ

Léaud l'unique
Movie • 2001

My Man
Movie • 1996
Client

On the Trail of the New Wave
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)

One Hundred and One Nights
Movie • 1995
The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)

I shot Antoine Doinel
Movie • 2019
Self

Nadja in Paris
Movie • 1964
Self

Le petit Pommier
Movie • 1981
Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine

Sodankylä Forever
Movie • 2010
Self

Léaud de Hurle-dents
Movie • 2004
Self

Mersonne ne m'aime
Movie • 1982
Daniel Flipo-Risq

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
Movie • 1984
René (segment 3)

Mata Hari, Agent H21
Movie • 1964
Absalon

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
Movie • 2024
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Paperback Woman
Movie • 1989
Marc

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Movie • 1967
The Bellboy

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
Movie • 2019
Self (Archive Footage)

The Twenty-Year-Olds
Movie • 1968
Adamik

Out 1
TV • 1971
Colin

Série noire
TV • 1984
Gaspard Bazin

L'Éducation sentimentale
TV • 1973
Frédéric Moreau

Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self

Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self

Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self