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.

Filmography

• 2024Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema — Self - Actor (archive footage), Thanks
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2018Alien Crystal Palace — Horus
• 2018The Lion Sleeps Tonight — Jean
• 2017M — Le père de Lila
• 2016El Brujo
• 2016The Death of Louis XIV — Louis XIV
• 2012Camille Rewinds — Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger
• 2011Le Havre — The Whistleblower
• 2009The Chalk Circle Man — Le Nermord
• 2009Visage — Antoine / King Herode
• 2005I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed — Georges Franju
• 2004A Wonderful Spell — Fernand
• 2003The Dreamers — Jean-Pierre Léaud
• 2002In the Darkness of Time — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2002The War in Paris — Haut Placé
• 2001The Pornographer — Jacques Laurent
• 2001What Time Is It There? — Man at Cemetery
• 2000A Matter of Taste — Investigating judge
• 2000The Marcorelle Affair — François Marcorelle
• 1999Innocent — Le poète
• 1998Elizabeth — (uncredited)
• 1997Just for Laughs — Nicolas Gardinier
• 1996Diary of a Seducer — Hugo
• 1996Irma Vep — René Vidal
• 1996My Man — Client
• 1995One Hundred and One Nights — The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
• 1994Nobody Loves Me — Lucien
• 1993The Birth of Love — Marcus
• 1992La Vie de Bohème — Blancheron
• 1991C'est la vie
• 1991Paris Awakens — Clément
• 1990I Hired a Contract Killer — Henri
• 1990Out 1 — Colin
• 1989Bunker Palace Hotel — Solal
• 1989Paperback Woman — Marc
• 198836 Fillette — Boris Golovine
• 1988Jane B. by Agnès V. — The Angry Lover
• 1988The Color of the Wind — Decourt
• 1987Boran -Time to Aim — Assistant
• 1987Lady Cops — Commissaire Bouvreuil
• 1987Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel — Georg Ossegg
• 1986Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company — Gaspard Bazin
• 1986Treasure Island — Midas
• 1986With All Hands — Marcel
• 1985Detective — Inspector Neveu
• 1985Just a Movie — Péter - a rendezõ
• 1985L'Herbe rouge — Lazuli
• 1984La cassure — Police Commissioner Rauffast
• 1984Paris Seen By... 20 Years After — René (segment 3)
• 1984Rebelote — Rémi Chauveau
• Série noire — Gaspard Bazin
• 1982Mersonne ne m'aime — Daniel Flipo-Risq
• 1982Pour Bonnie — Charles Blaine
• 1982Véra
• 1981Help Me Dream — Mario
• 1981Le petit Pommier — Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
• 1981Parano — Ignazio
• 1979Love on the Run — Antoine Doinel
• 1976Hugs and Other Things — Tom
• 1976Lola's Lolos — Bernard Dubois
• 1974De quoi s'agit-il? — Director
• 1973Day for Night — Alphonse
• L'Éducation sentimentale — Frédéric Moreau
• 1973Out 1: Spectre — Colin
• 1973The Mother and the Whore — Alexandre
• 1972Last Tango in Paris — Tom
• 1971A Girl Is a Gun — Billy le Kid
• Out 1 — Colin
• 1971The Lion Has Seven Heads — Preacher
• 1971Two English Girls — Claude Roc
• 1970Bed and Board — Antoine Doinel
• 1970The Heirs — Danton
• 1970The Wild Child — Thanks
• 1969Bad Company — Daniel (archive footage)
• 1969Joy of Learning — Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
• 1969Paul — Paul
• 1969Pigsty — Julian Klotz
• 1968Concentration
• 1968Dialogue 20-40-60 — Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
• 1968Stolen Kisses — Antoine Doinel
• 1968The Twenty-Year-Olds — Adamik
• 1967Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000 — The Bellboy
• 1967La Chinoise — Guillaume
• 1967Made in U.S.A — Donald Siegel, Assistant Director
• 1967The Departure — Marc
• 1967The Oldest Profession — The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
• 1967Weekend — Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
• 1966Masculin Féminin — Paul
• 1966Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes — Daniel
• 1965Alphaville — Breakfast Waiter (uncredited), Assistant Director
• 1965Love at Sea — The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
• 1965Pierrot le Fou — Young Man in Cinema (uncredited), Assistant Director
• 1964Mata Hari, Agent H21 — Absalon, Assistant Director
• 1964The Married Woman — Assistant Director
• 1964The Soft Skin — Assistant Director Trainee
• 1962Antoine and Colette — Antoine Doinel
• 1962Love at Twenty — Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
• 1960Boulevard — Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"
• 1960Testament of Orpheus — Dargelos, l'écolier
• 1959The 400 Blows — Antoine Doinel
• 1958King on Horseback — Pierrot

Appearances as themselves (27)

• 2026Léaud et les Bas — Self (Footage)
• 2023Godard Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Quando a Coisa Vira Outra — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Les secrets de François Truffaut — Self
• 2019André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2019C'è tempo — Self
• 2019I shot Antoine Doinel — Self
• 2019Introducing My Father, François Truffaut — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2014François Truffaut l'insoumis — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water — Self / Antoine / King Herode
• 2009On the Trail of the New Wave — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ — Self (uncredited)
• 2004Léaud de Hurle-dents — Self
• 20011968 - Without Losing Tenderness — Self
• 2001Léaud l'unique — Self - actor
• 1997Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath — Self
• 1993François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits — Self (archive footage)
• 1989The Ministries of Art — Self
• 1985Vivement Truffaut — Self / Doinel (archive footage)
• Ciné regards — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1968Françoise et Udo... — Self
• 1965Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit — Self
• 1964Nadja in Paris — Self
• Pour le plaisir — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• Reflets de Cannes — Self