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Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (French: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ le.o]; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959).
Jean-Pierre Léaud. Actor: The 400 Blows. Jean-Pierre Léaud is not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but will remain an important name in film history.
Mar 24, 2017 · Something more than an actor or even a movie star, Jean-Pierre Léaud is a man who has lived his life on film. After making his screen debut at 13, Mr. Léaud is now, at 72, the subject of a...
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 5, 1944, Paris, France) is a French screen actor who played leading roles in some of the most important French New Wave films of the 1960s and ’70s, particularly ones by François Truffaut.
Jean-Pierre Léaud. Actor: The 400 Blows. Jean-Pierre Léaud is not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but will remain an important name in film history.
Aug 22, 2024 · Jason Schwartzman Is the American Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Actor on ‘Between the Temples,’ ‘Queer,’ and the Coppola Dynasty. Schwartzman tells IndieWire about playing a widower (again) in Nathan...
Mar 31, 2017 · Jean-Pierre Léaud Speaks: How a Cinematic Icon Nearly Killed Himself for His Best Role Since ‘The 400 Blows’. The reclusive actor put himself through hell to play a dying man, but how much of...
Fifty-six years after his debut in François Truffaut’s cult film The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud, the 70-year-old living legend of the nouvelle Vague, has agreed to this rare interview.
There is no other actor like Jean-Pierre Léaud. Since the age of 14, when he first appeared as François Truffaut’s eternal Lost Boy, Antoine Doinel, in The 400 Blows (1959)—a role he played four more times—Léaud has occupied a unique place on screen, decade after decade. He carries within him a lived history of French cinema and of ...
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.