
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Known for: Acting
Born: May 28, 1944
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

Love on the Run
1979

Antoine and Colette
1962

Bed and Board
1970

Masculin Féminin
1966

I Hired a Contract Killer
1990

Love at Twenty
1962

Two English Girls
1971

Pour Bonnie
1982

The Pornographer
2001

Innocent
1999

Lola's Lolos
1976

Paul
1969

Boulevard
1960

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
1966

A Girl Is a Gun
1971

The Departure
1967

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997

Parano
1981

La cassure
1984

Concentration
1968

The Death of Louis XIV
2016

The Marcorelle Affair
2000

El Brujo
2016

The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2018
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1987
Véra
1982
C'est la vie
1991

Just a Movie
1985

Léaud l'unique
2001
Léaud de Hurle-dents
2004
Paperback Woman
1989

The Twenty-Year-Olds
1968

La Chinoise
1967

Irma Vep
1996

Paris Awakens
1991

Pigsty
1969

The Mother and the Whore
1973

Joy of Learning
1969

Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988

Out 1
1990

A Wonderful Spell
2004

The Lion Has Seven Heads
1971

Dialogue 20-40-60
1968

Hugs and Other Things
1976

The Birth of Love
1993

Just for Laughs
1997

In the Darkness of Time
2002

L'Herbe rouge
1985

Out 1: Spectre
1973

Rebelote
1984

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993

I shot Antoine Doinel
2019

Nadja in Paris
1964

Mersonne ne m'aime
1982

36 Fillette
1988

Made in U.S.A
1967
With All Hands
1986

Detective
1985

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
2005

Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020

M
2017

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
1986

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019

Léaud et les Bas
2026

The Color of the Wind
1988

Visage
2009

The Chalk Circle Man
2009

Bad Company
1969

Treasure Island
1986

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

Help Me Dream
1981

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
2009

Lady Cops
1987

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
1967

Last Tango in Paris
1972

A Matter of Taste
2000

Diary of a Seducer
1996

The War in Paris
2002

Boran -Time to Aim
1987

1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
2001

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984

La Vie de Bohème
1992

Nobody Loves Me
1994

The Heirs
1970

Le petit Pommier
1981

The Dreamers
2003

Day for Night
1973

The Ministries of Art
1989

Love at Sea
1965

Alphaville
1965
Françoise et Udo...
1968

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004

François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014

Vivement Truffaut
1985

Bunker Palace Hotel
1989

Camille Rewinds
2012
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009

King on Horseback
1958

Le Havre
2011

C'è tempo
2019

Pierrot le Fou
1965

Alien Crystal Palace
2018

Godard Cinema
2023

What Time Is It There?
2001

Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
2022

Weekend
1967

My Man
1996

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024

Testament of Orpheus
1960

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019

Mata Hari, Agent H21
1964

The Oldest Profession
1967

Elizabeth
1998

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

One Hundred and One Nights
1995

Out 1
1971

Série noire
1984

L'Éducation sentimentale
1973

Spécial cinéma
1974

Cinépanorama
1956

Reflets de Cannes
1954