JT
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Actor, Director
Died June 17, 2022 (91 years)
Jean-Louis Trintignant (11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France, the son of Claire (née Tourtin) and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist. At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.
Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film. He had the leading male role in the classic A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market.
In Italy, he was always dubbed into Italian, and his work stretched into collaborations with renowned Italian directors, including Sergio Corbucci in The Great Silence, Valerio Zurlini in Violent Summer and The Desert of the Tartars, Ettore Scola in La terrazza, Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist, and Dino Risi in the cult film The Easy Life.
Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut's final film, Confidentially Yours, and reprised his best-known role in the sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski's last film, Three Colors: Red.
Though he takes an occasional film role, he has, as of late, been focusing essentially on his stage work.
After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back on screen for Michael Haneke's film Amour. Haneke had sent Trintignant the script, which had been written specifically for him. Trintignant said that he chooses which films he works in on the basis of the director, and said of Haneke that "he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors".
Filmography
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff · as actor |
| 2019 | The Best Years of a Life · as Jean-Louis Duroc |
| 2017 | Happy End · as Georges Laurent |
| 2016 | Personne · as actor |
| 2013 | Michel · as Narrator |
| 2012 | Amour · as Georges Laurent |
| 2010 | What War May Bring · as Cameo appearance |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema · as (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") |
| 2006 | Stranger Than Fiction · as Jean-Louis Duroc |
| 2004 | Immortal · as Jack Turner |
| 2003 | Janis and John · as M. Cannon |
| 1998 | Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train · as Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich |
| 1996 | Tykho Moon · as Le chirurgien |
| 1996 | A Self-Made Hero · as Albert Dehousse (old) |
| 1996 | C'est jamais loin · as Unknown |
| 1995 | Fiesta · as Colonel Masagual |
| 1995 | The City of Lost Children · as L'oncle Irvin (voice) |
| 1994 | Three Colors: Red · as Richter Joseph Kern |
| 1994 | See How They Fall · as Marx |
| 1994 | Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary · as Narrator (French version) |
| 1993 | L'oeil écarlate · as René Montijoux |
| 1992 | Le Grand Pardon II · as Le Commissaire Duché (images d'archives) |
| 1992 | La controverse de Valladolid · as Ginèse de Sepúlveda |
| 1991 | Merci La Vie · as le colonel SS |
| 1989 | Bunker palace hôtel · as Holm |
| 1987 | La vallée fantôme · as Paul |
| 1987 | Le moustachu · as le général Gougeard |
| 1986 | The Woman of My Life · as Pierre |
| 1986 | A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later · as Jean-Louis Duroc |
| 1985 | Rendez-vous · as Scrutzler |
| 1985 | Partir, revenir · as Roland Rivière |
| 1985 | L'homme aux yeux d'argent · as Mayene |
| 1985 | L'été prochain · as Paul |
| 1984 | Le bon plaisir · as Le Président de la République |
| 1984 | Long Live Life · as François Gaucher |
| 1984 | Femmes de personne · as Michel Gilquin |
| 1983 | Cover Up · as Christian Lacassagne |
| 1983 | Confidentially Yours · as Julien Vercel |
| 1983 | Under Fire · as Marcel Jazy |
| 1982 | That Night in Varennes · as Monsieur Sauce |
| 1982 | Colpire al cuore · as Dario |
| 1982 | Boulevard des assassins · as Daniel Salmon |
| 1982 | The Big Pardon · as Le commissaire Duché |
| 1981 | Dead Certain · as Louis Faguet |
| 1981 | Passion of Love · as Le médecin major |
| 1981 | Malevil · as Fulbert |
| 1981 | Deep Water · as Vic |
| 1981 | Un assassin qui passe · as Ravic |
| 1980 | The Lady Banker · as Horace Vannister |
| 1980 | I Love You All · as Julien Tellier |
| 1980 | La terrazza · as Enrico |
| 1979 | Melancoly Baby · as Pierre |
| 1978 | Other People's Money · as Henri Rainier |
| 1977 | Faces of Love · as Victor |
| 1977 | The Passengers · as Alex Moineau |
| 1976 | The Probability Factor · as Fred Malone |
| 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars · as Magg. Med. Rovine |
| 1976 | The Honeymoon Trip · as Paul Carter |
| 1975 | Hustle · as Jean-Louis Duroc |
| 1975 | The Sunday Woman · as Massimo Campi |
| 1975 | Playing with Fire · as Franz |
| 1975 | Act of Aggression · as Paul Varlin |
| 1975 | Flic Story · as Émile Buisson |
| 1974 | The Secret · as David Daguerre |
| 1974 | Love at the Top · as Nicolas Mallet |
| 1974 | Successive Slidings of Pleasure · as The Police Commissioner |
| 1974 | Les violons du bal · as Him (Michel) |
| 1974 | Escapade · as Ferdinand |
| 1973 | The Train · as Julien Maroyeur |
| 1973 | Happy New Year · as Un homme |
| 1973 | A Full Day's Work · as Le Metteur en scène de la troupe des 'Enfants du Gard' |
| 1973 | Défense de savoir · as Jean-Pierre Laubray |
| 1972 | And Hope to Die · as Tony |
| 1972 | The Assassination · as François Darien |
| 1972 | The Outside Man · as Lucien Bellon |
| 1971 | Without Apparent Motive · as Stéphane Carella |
| 1970 | The Conformist · as Marcello Clerici |
| 1970 | The Crook · as Simon the Swiss |
| 1970 | Secret Intentions · as Miguel |
| 1969 | My Night at Maud's · as Jean-Louis |
| 1969 | So Sweet... So Perverse · as Jean Reynaud |
| 1969 | Love Circle · as Michele |
| 1969 | Crime Thief · as Jean Girod |
| 1969 | Z · as Examining Magistrate |
| 1968 | The Man Who Lies · as Jan Robin / Boris Varissa |
| 1968 | The Libertine · as Dr. Carlo De Marchi |
| 1968 | Plucked · as Marco (as Jean Louis Trintignant) |
| 1968 | Les Biches · as Paul Thomas |
| 1968 | The Great Silence · as Silence |
| 1967 | I Am What I Am · as Bernard (as Jean Louis Trintignant) |
| 1967 | A Man to Kill · as Raphaël |
| 1967 | My Love, My Love · as Vincent Falaise |
| 1966 | Trans-Europ-Express · as Elias |
| 1966 | Diamond Safari · as Raphaël Vincente |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? · as Capitaine Serge |
| 1966 | Un garçon, une fille. Le dix-septième ciel · as François |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman · as Jean-Louis Duroc |
| 1965 | The Sleeping Car Murder · as Éric Grandin |
| 1965 | Merveilleuse Angélique · as Claude le Petit, dit Le poète croté |
| 1964 | Mata Hari, agent H21 · as Captain François Lasalle |
| 1964 | The Whistlers · as Jean-Louis Trintignant |
| 1963 | Nutty, Naughty Chateau · as Frédéric |
| 1963 | Il successo · as Sergio |
| 1962 | Le combat dans l'île · as Clément Lesser |
| 1962 | The Seven Deadly Sins · as Bernard Duparc (segment "La luxure") |
| 1962 | Il Sorpasso · as Roberto Mariani |
| 1962 | The Fabiani Affair · as Joseph Fabiani |
| 1962 | La Luxure · as Unknown |
| 1961 | Journey Beneath the Desert · as Pierre |
| 1961 | Spotlight on a Murderer · as Jean-Marie de Keraudren |
| 1961 | Le puits aux trois vérités · as Un invité au vernissage |
| 1960 | The Battle of Austerlitz · as Ségur fils |
| 1960 | Le coeur battant · as François |
| 1959 | Violent Summer · as Carlo Caremoli |
| 1959 | Les liaisons dangereuses · as Danceny |
| 1956 | Law of the Streets · as Yves Tréguier "Le Breton" |
| 1956 | Club of Women · as Michel |
| 1956 | ...And God Created Woman · as Michel Tardieu |
| 1955 | If All the Guys in the World... · as Jean-Louis |