Jean-Claude Dauphin
Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2020 · Un mauvais garçon as Yves Fontanelle
- 2019 · Murder In La Rochefoucauld as Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
- 2015 · The Passenger as Général Garsac
- 2013 · Murders in... as Franck Keller
- 2012 · Brother and Sister as George Armant
- 2012 · Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night as Narrator (French voice)
- 2012 · La Grande Peinture as Le Ministre
- 2011 · Accusé Mendès France as Maître Fonlupt
- 2009 · LOL (Laughing Out Loud) as Le ministre
- 2008 · Adresse Inconnue as Stéphane Weber
- 2007 · The Second Wind as Jacques
- 2007 · Reporters as Laurent Dewilder
- 2007 · Chez Maupassant as Chenal âgé
- 2001 · Tender Souls as Père de Claire et Emilie
- 2001 · La Tour Montparnasse Infernale as Le commissaire
- 2000 · Six-Pack as Fouquier
- 1999 · Le sourire du clown as Vogel
- 1999 · Why Not Me? as Alain
- 1999 · Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · The School of Flesh as Louis-Guy
- 1997 · Georges Bataille - À perte de vue as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · Le Poids d'un secret as Jean Monceau
- 1996 · Télévision (histoires secrètes) as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · Samson le magnifique as Le Govain
- 1993 · The Last Bolshevik as Voice
- 1992 · Love at First Sight as Jérôme Sénéchal
- 1991 · Maigret as Le maire Grandmaison
- 1991 · Netchayev is Back as Philippe Martel
- 1990 · The Saint: The Big Bang as Blancpain
- 1989 · Champagne Charlie as Ernest
- 1988 · The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Swiss editor
- 1987 · Charlie Dingo as Jupin
- 1986 · Nuit d'ivresse as Le deuxième flic
- 1986 · Yiddish Connection as Toussaint
- 1985 · Spécial police as Durand
- 1985 · L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps as Gautier
- 1983 · Une jeunesse as Vietti
- 1983 · Los Desastres de la Guerra as Savary
- 1983 · Sarah as Senechal
- 1981 · Au bon beurre as Léon Lécuyer
- 1981 · Choice of Arms as Ricky
- 1981 · Au bon beurre as Léon Lécuyer
- 1978 · Le Temps des as as Étienne Leroux
- 1978 · Claudine as Armand Duplessis
- 1978 · Madame le Juge as Nicolas, le greffier
- 1977 · Les Héritiers as Frédérik Maller
- 1977 · Last Exit Before Roissy as Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
- 1977 · Barry of the Great St. Bernard as Martin
- 1976 · Dracula and Son as Cristéa/Christian
- 1976 · Police Commissioner Moulin as Bernard Deffoux
- 1974 · The Suspects as Solnes
- 1974 · Chance and Violence as Gilbert Morgan
- 1974 · Le Secret des Flamands as Antonello di Terracina
- 1972 · Handsome Face as Philippe
- 1972 · What a Flash! as
- 1972 · La Mandarine as Alain
- 1971 · Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000 as Pierre Sesterain
- 1971 · The Friends as Nicolas
- 1969 · The Witness as Thomas
- 1968 · The Tender Age as Henri Adolphe