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. 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. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

• 2020Un mauvais garçon — Yves Fontanelle
• 2019Murder In La Rochefoucauld — Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
• The Passenger — Général Garsac
• 2013La Grande Peinture — Le Ministre
• Murders in... — Franck Keller
• 2012Brother and Sister — George Armant
• 2012Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night — Narrator (French voice)
• 2011Accusé Mendès France — Maître Fonlupt
• 2009LOL (Laughing Out Loud) — Minister
• Adresse Inconnue — Stéphane Weber
• Chez Maupassant — Chenal âgé
• Reporters — Laurent Dewilder
• 2007The Second Wind — Jacques
• 2001Don't Die Too Hard! — The Commissioner
• 2001Tender Souls — Père de Claire et Emilie
• 2000Six-Pack — Fouquier
• 1999Le sourire du clown — Vogel
• 1999Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve — Narrator (voice)
• 1998The School of Flesh — Louis-Guy
• 1998Why Not Me? — Alain
• 1997Georges Bataille - À perte de vue — Narrator (voice)
• 1996Le Poids d'un secret — Jean Monceau
• Télévision (histoires secrètes) — Narrator (voice)
• 1995Samson le magnifique — Le Govain
• Love at First Sight — Jérôme Sénéchal
• Maigret — Le maire Grandmaison
• 1991Netchayev is Back — Philippe Martel
• 1991Some Other Spring — Luis
• 1990The Saint: The Big Bang — Blancpain
• 1989Champagne Charlie — Ernest
• 1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Swiss editor
• 1987Charlie Dingo — Jupin
• 1986Nuit d'ivresse — 2nd Policeman
• 1986Yiddish Connection — Toussaint
• 1985L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps — Gautier
• 1985Spécial police — Durand
• Los desastres de la guerra — Savary
• 1983Sarah — Senechal
• 1983Une jeunesse — Vietti
• 1981Au bon beurre — Léon Lécuyer
• Au bon beurre — Léon Lécuyer
• 1981Choice of Arms — Ricky
• Claudine — Armand Duplessis
• Le Temps des as — Étienne Leroux
• Madame le Juge — Nicolas, le greffier
• 1977Barry of the Great St. Bernard — Martin
• 1977Last Exit Before Roissy — Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
• Les Héritiers — Frédérik Maller
• 1976Dracula and Son — Cristéa/Christian
• Police Commissioner Moulin — Bernard Deffoux
• 1974Chance and Violence — Gilbert Morgan
• Le Secret des Flamands — Antonello di Terracina
• 1974The Suspects — Christian Solnes, the singer
• 1972Handsome Face — Philippe
• 1972La Mandarine — Alain
• 1972What a Flash!
• Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000 — Pierre Sesterain
• 1971The Friends — Nicolas
• 1969The Witness — Thomas
• 1968The Tender Age — Henri Adolphe

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1994The Last Bolshevik — Self (voice)
• Ciné regards — Self