Richard Leduc

Richard Leduc (* 1941 in Argenteuil ) is a French actor .

Leduc made his debut in the 1967 TV series Les oiseaux rares by Jean Dewever . He made his cinema debut in 1968 in the leading role of Simon in Robert Benayoun's Paris n'existe pas (with Serge Gainsbourg ). Benayoun had discovered him at the Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse, where Richard had discovered Leduc in a performance at the drama school. Benayoun had thought of Tom Courtenay when writing the role and hired Richard Leduc using this diction. Shortly thereafter, Alain Robbe-Grillet gave him a leading role in L'Éden et après . In 1970 he played Félix de Vandenesse at the side of Delphine Seyrig in Marcel Cravennes Balzac film adaptation The Lily in the Valley , Maxence alongside Claude Jade in the family TV saga Mauregard and the leading role of Saint-Brice in We will no longer be in the forest go . Robbe-Grillet also casts him for N. a pris les dés ... , Benayoun hired him again in 1975 for Sérieux comme le plaisir as Bruno, co-star of Jane Birkin . In 1974 he played together with Niels Arestrup a gay couple in Miss O'Gynie et les hommes fleurs , in which the two men resist the temptations of a young woman.

A film star in the 1970s, Leduc was rarely seen in the cinema and on TV in the 1980s (including Mieux vaut courir with Christian Clavier ) and 1990s (including Ce que savait Maisie by Édouard Molinaro ) and was increasingly dedicated to it the stage work.

Web links

• Richard Leduc in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Richard Leduc in an interview