Gérard Philipe (4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 34 films between 1944 and 1959. Active in both theater and cinema, he was, until his untimely death, one of the main stars of the post-war period. His image has remained youthful and romantic, which has made him one of the icons of French cinema.

Filmography

• 2022Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid
• 1959Dangerous Love Affairs — Valmont
• 1959Fever Mounts at El Pao — Ramón Vázquez
• 1958Life Together — Désiré
• 1958The Gambler — Alexei Ivanovitch
• 1958The Lovers of Montparnasse — Amedeo Modigliani
• 1957Lovers of Paris — Octave Mouret, ambitious provincial
• 1956Bold Adventure — Till l’Espiègle, Director, Writer
• 1956If Paris Were Told to Us — Le Trouvère
• 1955The Best Part — Philippe Perrin
• 1955The Grand Manoeuvre — Lieutenant Armand de la Verne
• 1954Le Rouge et le Noir — Julien Sorel
• 1954Monsieur Ripois — André Ripois
• 1953It Happened in the Park — Carlo (segment "Gli Amanti")
• 1953Royal Affairs in Versailles — D'Artagnan
• 1953The Proud and the Beautiful — Georges
• 1952Beauties of the Night — Claude
• 1952Fan-Fan the Tulip — Fanfan la Tulipe
• 1952The Seven Deadly Sins — The playmaker / The painter (segment "Le Huitième Péché")
• 1952With André Gide — Narrator (voice)
• 1951Juliette, or Key of Dreams — Michel Grandier
• 1950A Visit to Picasso — Récitant / Narrator
• 1950La Ronde — Le comte
• 1950Lost Souvenirs — Gérard de Narçay (segment "Une cravate de fourrure")
• 1950The Beauty of the Devil — Young Henri Faust / Young-Looking Mephistopheles
• 1949All Roads Lead to Rome — Gabriel Pégase
• 1949Such a Pretty Little Beach — Pierre
• 1948The Charterhouse of Parma — le marquis Fabrice Del Dong
• 1947Devil in the Flesh — François Jaubert
• 1946Land Without Stars — Simon Legouge / Frédéric Talacayud
• 1946The Idiot — Prince Miouchkine
• 1945Box of Dreams — Man (uncredited)
• 1944The Little Ones of the Flower Platform — Jérôme Hardy

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2021Le Parti du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• 2020A Night at the Opera — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The End of a Beautiful Epoch — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2003Gérard Philipe: un homme, pas un ange — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• Cinépanorama — Self (archive footage)
• 1956Le Théâtre National Populaire — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self