Jean-Claude Dauphin
43 movies · 17 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 16, 1948 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Also known as
- Claude Legrand
Biography
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.
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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.
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Jean-Claude Dauphin: movies and TV shows
Acting (60)
- 2020 Un mauvais garçon
as Yves Fontanelle
- 2019 Murder In La Rochefoucauld
as Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
- 2015
- 2013
- 2013 La Grande Peinture
as Le Ministre
- 2012 Brother and Sister
as George Armant
- 2012 Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
as Narrator (French voice)
- 2011 Accusé Mendès France
as Maître Fonlupt
- 2009 LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
as Minister
- 2008
- 2007 The Second Wind
as Jacques
- 2007
- 2007
- 2001 Tender Souls
as Père de Claire et Emilie
- 2001 Don't Die Too Hard!
as The Commissioner
- 2000 Six-Pack
as Fouquier
- 1999 Le sourire du clown
as Vogel
- 1999 Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve
as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 Why Not Me?
as Alain
- 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
- 1995 Samson le magnifique
as Le Govain
- 1992
- 1991
- 1991 Some Other Spring
as Luis
- 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 2nd Policeman
- 1986 Yiddish Connection
as Toussaint
- 1985 Spécial police
as Durand
- 1985
- 1983 Une jeunesse
as Vietti
- 1983
- 1983 Sarah
as Senechal
- 1981
- 1981 Choice of Arms
as Ricky
- 1981 Au bon beurre
as Léon Lécuyer
- 1978
- 1978
- 1978
- 1977
- 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
- 1974 The Suspects
as Christian Solnes, the singer
- 1974 Chance and Violence
as Gilbert Morgan
- 1974
- 1972 Handsome Face
as Philippe
- 1972
- 1972 La Mandarine
as Alain
- 1971
- 1971 The Friends
as Nicolas
- 1969 The Witness
as Thomas
- 1968 The Tender Age
as Henri Adolphe
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1994
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode