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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 16, 1948
Place of Birth:
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Passenger | Général Garsac |
| 2013 | Murders in... | Franck Keller |
| 2008 | Adresse Inconnue | Stéphane Weber |
| 2007 | Chez Maupassant | Chenal âgé |
| 2007 | Reporters | Laurent Dewilder |
| 1996 | Télévision (histoires secrètes) | Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Love at First Sight | Jérôme Sénéchal |
| 1991 | Maigret | Le maire Grandmaison |
| 1983 | Los desastres de la guerra | Savary |
| 1981 | Au bon beurre | Léon Lécuyer |
| 1978 | Madame le Juge | Nicolas, le greffier |
| 1978 | Claudine | Armand Duplessis |
| 1978 | Le Temps des as | Étienne Leroux |
| 1977 | Les Héritiers | Frédérik Maller |
| 1976 | Police Commissioner Moulin | Bernard Deffoux |
| 1974 | Le Secret des Flamands | Antonello di Terracina |
| 1971 | Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000 | Pierre Sesterain |