Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Igor and After
• 2026One Hero, The People — Excerpt from the film Z (archive footage)
• 2024The Most Precious of Cargoes — Narrateur (voice)
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2019The Best Years of a Life — Jean-Louis Duroc
• 2017Happy End — Georges Laurent
• 2013Bardot, The Misunderstanding
• 2013Michel — Narrator
• 2012Amour — Georges
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2009Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
• 2003Janis and John — Monsieur Cannon
• 2002Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve — Narator
• 1999Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur — Narration (Voice)
• 1998Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train — Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
• 1996A Self-Made Hero — Albert Dehousse (old)
• 1996C'est jamais loin — Elliot Spencer
• 1996L'insoumise — Roquepenne
• 1996Tykho Moon — Le chirurgien
• 1995Fiesta — Colonel Masagual
• 1995The City of Lost Children — L'oncle Irvin (voice)
• 1994Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary — Narrator (French version)
• 1994See How They Fall — Marx
• 1994Shattered Lives — Récitant (texte de Paul Éluard) (voice)
• 1994Three Colors: Red — The Judge
• 1993Angel's Wing — Colonel Édouard
• 1993L'Interdiction — Marquis d'Espard
• 1993L'Œil écarlate — René Montijoux, Adaptation
• 1992Dispute in Valladolid — Ginèse de Sepúlveda
• 1992The Big Pardon 2 — Le Commissaire Duché (archive footage)
• 1991Thank You, Life — le colonel SS
• 1990Julie de Carneilhan — Herbert d'Espivant
• 1989Bunker Palace Hotel — Holm
• 1989Pour un oui ou pour un non — H1
• 1987Le Moustachu — le général Gougeard
• 1987The Ghost Valley — Paul
• 1986A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later — Jean-Louis Duroc
• 1986August 15th
• 1986The Woman of My Life — Pierre
• 1985Going and Coming Back — Roland Rivière
• 1985L'Homme aux yeux d'argent — Mayene
• 1985Next Summer — Paul
• 1985Rendez-vous — Scrutzler
• 1985Volley for a Black Buffalo — Mr. Fodó, teacher
• 1984Femmes de personne — Michel Gilquin
• 1984Le Bon Plaisir — Le Président de la République
• 1984Long Live Life — François Gaucher
• 1983Confidentially Yours — Julien Vercel
• 1983Cover Up — Christian Lacassagne
• 1983Credo — Prof. Lenski
• 1983Under Fire — Marcel Jazy
• 1982Blow to the Heart — Dario
• 1982Boulevard des assassins — Daniel Salmon
• 1982That Night of Varennes — Monsieur Sauce
• 1982The Big Pardon — Le commissaire Duché
• 1981A Business of Men — Louis Faguet
• 1981An Assassin Passes By — Ravic
• 1981Deep Water — Vic
• 1981Malevil — Fulbert
• 1981Passion of Love — Le médecin major
• 1980I Love You All — Julien Tellier
• 1980The Lady Banker — Horace Vannister
• 1980The Terrace — Enrico D'Orsi
• 1979Melancoly Baby — Pierre
• 1979Swimming Instructor — le jardinier, Director
• 1978Other People's Money — Henri Rainier
• 1977Faces of Love — Victor
• 1977The Passengers — Alex Moineau
• 1976The Desert of the Tartars — Magg. Med. Rovine
• 1976The Honeymoon Trip — Paul Carter
• 1976The Probability Factor — Fred Malone
• 1975Act of Aggression — Paul Varlin
• 1975Flic Story — Émile Buisson
• 1975Playing with Fire — Franz
• 1975Rain over Santiago — Le Sénateur
• 1975The Sunday Woman — Massimo Campi
• 1974Escapade — Ferdinand
• 1974Love at the Top — Nicolas Mallet
• 1974Successive Slidings of Pleasure — The Police Commissioner
• 1974The Secret — David Daguerre
• 1974Violins at the Ball — Him (Michel)
• 1973A Full Day's Work — Le Metteur en scène de la troupe des 'Enfants du Gard', Screenplay, Director
• 1973Défense de savoir — Jean-Pierre Laubray
• 1973The Last Train — Julien Maroyeur
• 1972And Hope to Die — Tony
• 1972The Assassination — François Darien
• 1972The Outside Man — Lucien Bellon
• 1971The Conformist — Marcello Clerici
• 1971Without Apparent Motive — Stéphane Carella
• 1970Las secretas intenciones — Miguel
• 1970Opium and the Stick — Chaudier
• 1970Ramparts of Clay — L'entrepreneur
• 1970The Crook — Simon the Swiss
• 1969Crime Thief — Jean Girod
• 1969Love Circle — Michele
• 1969My Night at Maud's — Jean-Louis
• 1969So Sweet... So Perverse — Jean Reynaud
• 1969The American — Bruno
• 1969Z — Examining Magistrate
• 1968Death Laid an Egg — Marco
• 1968La société est une fleur carnivore — Narrator
• 1968Les Biches — Paul Thomas
• 1968The Great Silence — Silence
• 1968The Libertine — Dr. Carlo De Marchi
• 1968The Man Who Lies — Jan Robin / Boris Varissa
• 1967A Man to Kill — Raphaël
• 1967Deadly Sweet — Bernard
• 1967My Love, My Love — Vincent Falaise
• 1966A Man and a Woman — Jean-Louis Duroc
• 1966Diamond Safari — Raphaël Vincente
• 1966Is Paris Burning? — Captain Serge
• 1966Long March — Philippe
• 1966Seventeenth Heaven — François
• 1966Trans-Europ-Express — Elias
• 1965Angelique: The Road to Versailles — Claude le Petit, dit Le poète croté
• 1965Fragilité, ton nom est femme
• 1965I Kill, You Kill — Gianni Santi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")
• Le Train Bleu s'arrête 13 fois — Mezure
• 1965The Real Bargain — Jacques Danzac
• 1965The Sleeping Car Murders — Éric Grandin, étudiant vétérinaire
• 1964Avatar — Octave
• 1964Les Siffleurs — Jean-Louis Trintignant
• 1964Mata Hari, Agent H21 — Captain François Lasalle
• 1964The Last Steps — Georges Guichard
• 1963Il successo — Sergio
• 1963L'un d'entre vous — René Dézange
• 1963Nutty, Naughty Chateau — Frédéric
• 1963Way of the Wrong Road
• 1962Il Sorpasso — Roberto Mariani
• 1962Le Combat dans l'île — Clément Lesser
• 1962Lust — Bernard Duparc
• 1962Parisienne... Parisiennes — Récitant (voice)
• 1962The Fabiani Affair — Joseph Fabiani
• 1962The Seven Deadly Sins — Bernard Duparc (segment "La luxure")
• 1962Un jour à Paris
• 1961Journey Beneath the Desert — Pierre
• 1961Spotlight on a Murderer — Jean-Marie de Kerloquen
• 1961The Game of Truth — Guy de Fleury
• 1961Three Faces of Sin — Guest at the opening
• 1960Austerlitz — Ségur fils
• 1960The French Game — François
• 1960The Thousandth Window — Georges Desvignes
• 1959Dangerous Love Affairs — Danceny
• 1959Violent Summer — Carlo Caremoli
• 1956...And God Created Woman — Michel Tardieu
• 1956Club of Women — Michel
• 1956If All the Guys in the World... — Jean-Louis
• 1956Law of the Streets — Yves Tréguier aka 'Le Breton'

Appearances as themselves (36)

• From Rock Star to Killer — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Romy, A Free Woman — Self - Julien Maroyeur (archive footage)
• 2022Shoot to Live — Self
• 2021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2021Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu — Self
• 2021Trintignant by Trintignant — Self
• 2019André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2018Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque — Self
• 2018Making of Happy End — Self
• 2017Filming Silenzio — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Cinéma Jacques Perrin — Self
• 2013Making of Amour — Self
• 2013Michael H. – Profession: Director — Self
• 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis — Self
• Square — Self
• 2011Agnès Varda: From Here to There — Self
• Agnès Varda: From Here to There — Self
• 2010Le Miracle du silence — Self
• 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self
• 2009Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man" — Self
• 2005Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens — Self
• 2005The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi — Self (archive footage)
• 1994Kieślowski Cannes 94 — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Numéro un — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• 1968Western, Italian Style — Self
• Pour le plaisir — Self
• Seize millions de jeunes — Self