
Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Acting
- December 11, 1930 · Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
- June 17, 2022
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Igor and After
- One Hero, The People · Excerpt from the film Z (archive footage)
- From Rock Star to Killer · Self
- The Most Precious of Cargoes · Narrateur (Voice)
- Romy, A Free Woman · Self
- Shoot to Live · Self
- Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable · Self
- Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained · Self
- Trintignant by Trintignant · Self
- Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu · Self
- Morceaux de Cannes
- Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables · Self
- The Best Years of a Life · Jean-Louis Duroc
- André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema · Self
- Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque · Self
- Making of Happy End · Self
- Happy End · Georges Laurent
- Filming Silenzio · Self
- Cinéma Jacques Perrin · Self
- Bardot, The Misunderstanding
- Making of Amour · Self
- Michael H. – Profession: Director · Self
- Michel · Narrator
- Close Up · Self
- Amour · Georges
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis · Self
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · (archive footage)
- Square · Self
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There · Self
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There · Self
- Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore · Self
- Le Miracle du silence · Self
- Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man" · Self
- The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi · Self
- Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens · Self
- Janis and John · Monsieur Cannon
- Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve · Narator
- Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur · Narration (Voice)
- Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train · Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
- Tykho Moon · Le chirurgien
- L'insoumise · Roquepenne
- A Self-Made Hero · Albert Dehousse (old)
- C'est jamais loin · Elliot Spencer
- Fiesta · Colonel Masagual
- The City of Lost Children · L'oncle Irvin (Voice)
- Kieślowski Cannes 94 · Self
- See How They Fall · Marx
- Three Colors: Red · The Judge
- Shattered Lives · Récitant (texte de Paul Éluard) (Voice)
- Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary · Narrator (French version)
- L'Interdiction · Marquis d'Espard
- L'Œil écarlate · René Montijoux, Adaptation
- Angel's Wing · Colonel Édouard
- The Big Pardon 2 · Le Commissaire Duché (archive footage)
- Dispute in Valladolid · Ginèse de Sepúlveda
- Thank You, Life · le colonel SS
- Julie de Carneilhan · Herbert d'Espivant
- Pour un oui ou pour un non · H1
- Bunker Palace Hotel · Holm
- The Ghost Valley · Paul
- Nulle part ailleurs · Self
- Le Moustachu · le général Gougeard
- The Woman of My Life · Pierre
- August 15th
- A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later · Jean-Louis Duroc
- L'Homme aux yeux d'argent · Mayene
- Volley for a Black Buffalo · Mr. Fodó, teacher
- Rendez-vous · Scrutzler
- Going and Coming Back · Roland Rivière
- Next Summer · Paul
- Long Live Life · François Gaucher
- Femmes de personne · Michel Gilquin
- Le Bon Plaisir · Le Président de la République
- Under Fire · Marcel Jazy
- Cover Up · Christian Lacassagne
- Confidentially Yours · Julien Vercel
- Credo · Prof. Lenski
- Blow to the Heart · Dario
- That Night of Varennes · Monsieur Sauce











