Jean-Louis Trintignant
Biography
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (46)
One Hero, The People
as Excerpt from the film Z (archive footage)
2026
The Most Precious of Cargoes
as Narrateur (voice)
2024
Shoot to Live
as Self
2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self
2021
Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
as Self
2021
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Best Years of a Life
as Jean-Louis Duroc
2019
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
as Self
2018
Making of Happy End
as Self
2018
Happy End
as Georges Laurent
2017
Filming Silenzio
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
as Self
2014
Making of Amour
as Self
2013
Michael H. – Profession: Director
as Self
2013
Michel
as Narrator
2013
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Amour
as Georges
2012
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
as Self
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
2011
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self
2010
Le Miracle du silence
as Self
2010
Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"
as Self
2009
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
as Self
2005
Janis and John
as Monsieur Cannon
2003
Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve
as Narator
2002
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
as Narration (Voice)
1999
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
as Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
1998
Tykho Moon
as Le chirurgien
1996
L'insoumise
as Roquepenne
1996
A Self-Made Hero
as Albert Dehousse (old)
1996
C'est jamais loin
as Elliot Spencer
1996
Fiesta
as Colonel Masagual
1995
The City of Lost Children
as L'oncle Irvin (voice)
1995
Kieślowski Cannes 94
as Self
1994
See How They Fall
as Marx
1994
Three Colors: Red
as The Judge
1994
Shattered Lives
as Récitant (texte de Paul Éluard) (voice)
1994
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
as Narrator (French version)
1994
L'Interdiction
as Marquis d'Espard
1993
L'Œil écarlate
as René Montijoux
1993
Angel's Wing
as Colonel Édouard
1993
