Yves Beneyton

Yves Beneyton (born August 3, 1946 in Baden-Baden ) is a French actor.

After supporting roles in Jean-Luc Godard ( Two or three things I know about her , Weekend ), he becomes a star as the central hero of Marcel Carné's Wie Junge Wolfe 1968. Jacques Rivette ( L'amour fou ), André Téchiné ( Pauline s'en va ) and Marco Bellocchio ( In the name of the father ) make him the star of the 70s auteur cinema as the leading actor in their films. Even in Germany he is at the top of the cast lists, for example in Peter Patzak's Zerschossene Träume . As early as 1975 he played with Isabelle Huppert in The Great Ecstasy , but both breakthroughs came worldwide with The Lace Maker by Claude Goretta . He is best known to German television audiences as Philippe Maroux, who fell in love with Claude Jade in the series Die Insel der 30 Tode .

Yves Beneyton is a grandson of the Canadian-American sculptor Cecil de Blaquiere Howard .

Filmography (selection)

• 1967: Like young wolves (Les jeunes loups)
• 1971: Paulina runs away (Pauline s'en va)
• 1972: In the name of the father (Nel nome del padre)
• 1974: The Ruthless One (Par le sang des autres)
• 1975: The great ecstasy (Le grand délire)
• 1975: Shattered Dreams (L'appât)
• 1976: Three ways to the lake
• 1977: The lace maker (La dentellière)
• 1977: In the service of a monster (Il mostro)
• 1977: As God Pleases It (TV series)
• 1979: The Isle of Thirty Deaths (L'île aux trente cercueils) (TV series)
• 1981: The Victory's Hour (Chariots of Fire)
• 1982: The Charterhouse of Parma (La certosa di Parma) (TV series)
• 1983: The murderer in our midst (Le tueuer est parmi nous)
• 1985: Letters to an unknown lover (TV movie)
• 1988: The kiss of the tiger
• 1990: Haute Tension: Murder on Order (La mort en dédiace) (TV movie)
• 1991: Continuation of Mord (Suite en noir) (TV movie)
• 1999: The Fast Money - The Nick Leeson Story (Rogue Trader)

Web links

• Yves Beneyton in the Internet Movie Database (English)