Philippe Leroy

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Philippe Leroy -Beaulieu (born October 15, 1930 in Paris ) is a French actor .

Life

Leroy comes from an aristocratic family (his father Paul Leroy-Beaulieu (* 1902; † 1999) was a marquis ), but after graduating in political science, he spent many years with an adventurous and dangerous life that brought him to the United States as a parachutist and arms dealer States and war zones to Indochina and Algeria. In 1960, now back in his hometown Paris, he embarked on an acting career and made his debut in Jean Becker's Das Loch . The tall, slim, athletic actor with a cold look played numerous supporting roles in French films, but found larger role offers from 1962 in Italy, where he encountered a booming film industry that offered the tireless worker numerous roles in films of every genre , so that he went to one Filmography with 175 titles can look back. Again and again he returned to his home country to perform; he was also seen as an actor in Fotoromanzi . The critics praised his courage to play unusual roles when choosing roles without fear of making mistakes. He worked with numerous important directors of Italian cinema such as Paolo Cavara , Carlo Lizzani , Riccardo Freda , Liliana Cavani , Fernando Di Leo , Sergio Sollima and Steno . From the beginning of the 1970s he was also repeatedly seen in television films.

Leroy was married several times. After marriage to a Vietnamese woman and a divorce from a French woman in 1970, he married Emma Bini. He is the father of actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and is occasionally listed by his full name.

He was nominated twice for a film award, for his debut film and for the Emmy because of his performance in the television film La vita di Leonardo da Vinci , which was shot in 1971. He remained a passionate skydiver throughout his life .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: The Hole (Le Trou)
  • 1960: The harvest of sinful girls (Les filles sèment le vent)
  • 1961: Hörig (Senilità)
  • 1962: One against Rome (Solo contro Roma)
  • 1962: Key to Seventh Heaven (L'attico)
  • 1963: Amore in four dimensions (Amore in 4 dimensioni)
  • 1963: Crazy Summer (Frenesia dell'estate)
  • 1964: Cordoba (Llanto por un bandido)
  • 1964: The Naked Hours (Le ore nude)
  • 1964: A married woman (Une Femme mariée)
  • 1964: If the men only knew (L'idea fissa)
  • 1965: A virgin for the prince (Una vergine per il principe)
  • 1965: Mandragola (La mandragola)
  • 1965: 7 golden men (Sette uomini d'oro)
  • 1966: An almost perfect murderer (Un delitto quasi perfetto)
  • 1966: Go to bed, not to war (Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore)
  • 1966: The super thing of the 7 golden men (Il grande colpo dei sette uomini d'oro)
  • 1966: Yankee (Yankee)
  • 1967: Madame has the longest fingers (La notte è fatta per… rubare)
  • 1967: The Wild Eye (L'occhio selvaggio)
  • 1968: Piggyback (La matriarca)
  • 1968: Mother's Heart (Cuore di mamma)
  • 1968: where, when, with whom? (Come, quando, perché?)
  • 1969: Without knowing much about her (Senza sapere niente di lei)
  • 1969: His glory day (La sua giornata di gloria)
  • 1971: Frying pan caliber 38 (… e alla fine lo chiamarono Jerusalem l'implacabile)
  • 1971: The horse came without socks (Ettore lo fusto)
  • 1971: La vita di Leonardo da Vinci (TV miniseries)
  • 1972: Roma Bene - Love and Sex in Rome (Roma bene)
  • 1973: Command RAS (RAS - Rien à signaler)
  • 1973: Maribel, the secretary (Ceba para una adolescente)
  • 1973: Even killers have to die (La mano nera - prima della mafia, più della mafia)
  • 1974: The merciless hand of the law (La mano spietata della legge)
  • 1974: At the hands of the child murderer (Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverra)
  • 1974: The night porter (Il portiere di notte)
  • 1975: Hector, the knight without fear and blame (Il soldato di ventura)
  • 1975: Libera, Amore Mio (Libera, amore mio)
  • 1976: Giacomino - A Child's Odyssey (La linea del fiume)
  • 1976: Sandokan - The Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan) (TV miniseries)
  • 1977: The cat does not let the mouse moult (Il gatto)
  • 1977: Mannaja - The ax of death (Mannaja)
  • 1978: Covert Action - narcotics kill quietly (Sono stato un agente CIA)
  • 1979: Don Tango - Reverend with the cheeky sole (Qua la mano)
  • 1979: Now or never (Courage, fuyons)
  • 1980: Country Lady (Tranquille donne di campagna)
  • 1983: Heaven and Hell (State buoni se potete)
  • 1984: The Diamond Tree (L'albero dei diamanti) (TV movie)
  • 1985: Quo Vadis? (Television miniseries)
  • 1986: The woman from the ferry (La donna di traghetto)
  • 1986: The Treasure in Space (L'isola del tesoro) (TV miniseries)
  • 1989: Winter 54 (L'Hiver 54 - l'abbé Pierre)
  • 1992: War of the Bosses (Due vite, un destino)
  • 1993: Desperately wanted family (Cherché famille deséspérement)
  • 1996: Two angels with four fists (Noi siamo angeli) (TV series, guest role)
  • 2003-2006: Frank Riva (TV series)
  • 2004: The giraffe's neck (Le cou de la girafe)
  • 2007: The Mother of Tears (La terza madre)
  • 2009: Don Matteo (TV series, 7th season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Lancia, Article Philippe Leroy , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998. pp. 273/274
personal data
SURNAME Leroy, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leroy-Beaulieu, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris