
Jean-Claude Dauphin
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. 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 3.0.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-03-16
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Cast
The Witness
19690.0 / 10
The Tender Age
19688.0 / 10
Six-Pack
20005.8 / 10
Champagne Charlie
19893.0 / 10
Dracula and Son
19766.2 / 10
The Suspects
19745.4 / 10
Choice of Arms
19816.5 / 10
Why Not Me?
19995.8 / 10
Le sourire du clown
19995.0 / 10
The Second Wind
20076.0 / 10
Samson le magnifique
199510.0 / 10
Tender Souls
20014.0 / 10
Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
20120.0 / 10
The Friends
19716.0 / 10
La Mandarine
19724.7 / 10
Brother and Sister
20126.0 / 10
L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps
19855.8 / 10
Georges Bataille - À perte de vue
19977.0 / 10
Au bon beurre
19817.0 / 10
Nuit d'ivresse
19866.0 / 10
Accusé Mendès France
20115.0 / 10
The School of Flesh
19985.3 / 10
What a Flash!
19724.5 / 10
The Last Bolshevik
19937.3 / 10
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
20096.5 / 10
Sarah
19835.3 / 10
Spécial police
19854.3 / 10
Handsome Face
19720.0 / 10
Chance and Violence
19744.3 / 10
La Grande Peinture
20128.0 / 10
Yiddish Connection
19868.0 / 10
Last Exit Before Roissy
19777.0 / 10
La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
20016.3 / 10
Barry of the Great St. Bernard
19770.0 / 10
Un mauvais garçon
20205.8 / 10
The Saint: The Big Bang
19904.0 / 10
Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve
19998.0 / 10
Netchayev is Back
19915.1 / 10
Murder In La Rochefoucauld
20196.0 / 10
Une jeunesse
19830.0 / 10
Le Poids d'un secret
19960.0 / 10
Charlie Dingo
19876.0 / 10
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
19886.9 / 10