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The 85th Best Actor of All-Time: Jean-Pierre Léaud

best film:The 400 Blows is the correct answer here for Jean-Pierre Léaud because the rest of the main competition – the others on the masterpiece level – need to be disqualified due to his lack of substantive contribution to those films. When tackling the question of Léaud’s best films, one has to start by parsing and then extracting the miniscule roles and cameos. Counting everything, Léaud is in at least three (3) masterpieces – but it is not fair to count Pierrot le Fou (1965) and Weekend (1967) with Jean-Luc Godard as Léaud is just sort of wallpaper in the background for a few moments in these films. In Pierrot, Leaud is just hanging out barely in the frame in the theater scene – with every stitch of clothing on everyone chosen to match the painted red movie theater perfectly. In Weekend, Godard uses Leaud and Anne Wiazemky just sparingly – cameos from these two past stars of La Chinoise. Léaud has plenty of other films to choose from in the tier below The 400 Blows (and Pierrot

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

French actor

Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (French:[ʒɑ̃pjɛʁle.o]; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki.

Early life

Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film directorFrançois Truffaut, in The 400 Blows. To cast the two central characters, Antoine Doinel and his partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut published an announcement in France-Soir and auditioned several hundred children in September and October 1958. Jean Domarchi, a critic at Cahiers du cinéma, had earlier recommended the son of an assistant scriptwriter, Pierr

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Jean-Pierre Léaud Biography

Date of Birth:
May 28, 1944Birth Place:
Paris, France

Biography

In his first major film role as Antoine Doinel, Jean-Pierre Leaud exhibited a mature command as an unloved youth who turns petty thief in Francois Truffaut's memorable classic "The Four Hundred Blows" (1959). The film's final frozen image of Leaud's round face staring at the camera with a mixture of humor and confusion has become a familiar screen image. Truffaut went on to direct the actor in six additional films, four of which detailed the further adventures of Doinel. Leaud matured into a lanky, sharp-featured but furtive man. Over the course of the series, he proved to be a modest talent with his initial performance the best. As Leaud matured along with the character of Doinel, he demonstrated his limitations, playing against the sentimentality of "Stolen Kisses" (1968) and lending an almost cold presence to "Bed and Board" (1970, easily the weakest of the entries in the series). The final installment, "Love on the Run" (1979), was a modest effort.