Jean-Claude Dauphin

Jean-Claude Dauphin
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Dauphin in 2013
Born
Jean-Claude Legrand

(1948-03-16) March 16, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityFrench
OccupationActor
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Jean-Claude Dauphin ( 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.

Biography

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He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban,[1] 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.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1968 Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre Henri Rebecque / Adolphe
1969 The Witness Thomas
1971 The Friends Nicolas
1972 La Mandarine Alain / Sister
1972 What a Flash!
1972 Beau Masque Philippe
1974 Le Hasard et la Violence Gilbert Morgan
1974 The Suspects Solnes
1976 Dracula and Son Cristéa
1977 Barry of the Great St. Bernard Martin TV movie
1977 La fille d'Amérique Jérôme
1977 Dernière sortie avant Roissy Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
1981 Choice of Arms Ricky
1983 Sarah Senechal
1983 Une jeunesse Vietti
1984 Souvenirs, Souvenirs Jean-Michel
1985 Spécial police Durand
1985 L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps Gautier
1986 Yiddish Connection Toussaint
1986 Nuit d'ivresse Le deuxième flic / 2nd Policeman
1986 Série noire Antoine / Clovis 2 episodes
1987 Charlie Dingo Jupin
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Swiss editor
1991 Netchaïev est de retour Philippe Martel
1998 The School of Flesh Louis-Guy
1999 Why Not Me? Alain
1999 Le sourire du clown Vogel
2000 Six-Pack Fouquier
2001 La tour Montparnasse infernale Le commissaire
2001 Les âmes câlines Père de Claire et Emilie
2007 The Second Wind Jacques le notaire
2008 LOL (Laughing Out Loud) Le ministre
2010 Streamfield, les carnets noirs Corbin - 'le corbeau'
2011 Léa Pierre
2011 The Monk Narrateur Voice

References

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  1. ^ "L'actrice Maria Mauban est morte". FIGARO (in French). 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2017-10-28.
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