Denis Podalydès

ActorDirectorDirectingWriter Apr 22 (age 62) Versailles, Yvelines, France 1989–2026 (37 year career)

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Biography

Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Podalydès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

The Da Vinci Code

Flight Controller

Film

See You Up There

The Minister (voice)

Film

An Officer and a Spy

Maître Demange

Film

All Your Faces

Paul

Film

La Belle Époque

François

Film

Caché

Yvon

Film

Mr & Mme Adelman

Le Psy

Film

Rise

Henri Gautier

Filmography

Acting (174)

Movies (162)

Maigret and the Dead Lover

2026

as Commissaire Jules Maigret

6.1

De la comédie française

2026 Upcoming

as La voix de Radio Molière (voice)

Jul 22

It’s All Good

2026 Upcoming

May 27

The Rembrandt Syndrome

2025

as Gregory

4.3

Before What Comes After

as Fabrice Toussaint

Guess Who's Calling!

as Pierre Chozène

The Most Precious of Cargoes

2024

as Man with the Broken Face (voice)

Love Boat

as Albin

Hécube, pas Hécube

Making Of

as Simon

Sarah Bernhardt, With Heart and Soul

2023

as Self

All Your Faces

2023

as Paul

7.9

Wow!

2023

as Le client silencieux

The President's Wife

as Bernard Niquet

The Asembly Line

as Junot

Homecoming

as Marc

King Lear

as Lear

The Great Magic

2023

as Charles

5.0

The World of Yesterday

2022

as Franck L’Herbier

5.6

Classico

2022

as Le président de l’OM

Rise

as Henri Gautier

Julia(s)

as Victor Massenet

Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite

2022

as Orgon, mari d’Elmire

Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

5.5

Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.5

Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune

2021

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Céline : les derniers secrets

2021

as Self

Presidents

2021

as Le psy

5.3

Bloody Oranges

2021

as Le ténor du barreau

6.0

Fantasies

2021

as Vincent Lebrun (sketch 'Ludophilie')

5.1

French Tech

2021

as Alexandre Duveteux

Deception

as Philip

Anaïs in Love

as Daniel

Napoleon: Destiny and Death

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.2

Ces murs qui nous font signe

2021

as Narrator (voice)

Les Damnés de la Commune

2021

as Georges Clemenceau (voice)

7.1

La comédie française - Le Malade Imaginaire

2020

De Gaulle, histoire d'un géant

2020

as (voice)

7.5

C'est pas grave d'aimer le football !

as Self

Delete History

as Bertrand

Grand amour

The Black Book

as (voice)

An Officer and a Spy

as Maître Demange

The Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern America

as Reciter (voice)

La Belle Époque

as François

Électre / Oreste

as Ménélas

Architecture

2019

Disclaimer

2019

as Julien Demaistre

4.7

Apollo 11 : Retour vers la lune

2019

as Narrator

8.0

Conversation with Romy Schneider

as Narrator (voice)

Bécassine !

as M. Proey-Minans

Sorry Angel

as Mathieu

Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !

2018

as Stanislas de Chazelle

5.4

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

2018

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0

Marie Antoinette: The Trial of a Queen

2018

as Narrator

7.6

See You Up There

2017

as The Minister (voice)

7.8

PSG : Ce club qui a failli ne pas exister !

as Self

Mr & Mme Adelman

as Le Psy

The Teacher

as François Foucault

Même quand nous dormons

2017

as (voice)

Marie-Francine

as Emmanuel Doublet

The Jews

as Talmudiste #2

Scribe

as Clément

120 ans d'inventions au cinéma

2016

as Narrator (voice)

Chocolat

as Louis Lumière

Le passe-muraille

as Émile Dutilleul

Les Damnés

Hitler's Games, Berlin 1936

2016

as Narrator (voice)

6.8

La Tragédie du roi Richard II

2015

as Richard II

The Sweet Escape

2015

as Rémi

6.6

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran

2015

as Self

1.0

A Village Almost Perfect!

as Henri

Nice and Easy

as Richard

Marie Curie, une femme sur le front

as Narrator (voice)

The Forest

as Arkadi

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!

2013

as Barry

9.0

The Big Bad Wolf

2013

as Dr. Stanislas de Lastic

5.3

Meurtre en trois actes

2013

as Philippe Laclanche

6.2

Drumont, histoire d'un antisémite français

as Édouard Drumont

The Conquerors

as Galaad

For a Woman

as Maurice

Love Is the Perfect Crime

as Richard

Granny's Funeral

as Armand

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

2012

as Antoine

6.7

Camille Rewinds

2012

as Alphonse Da Costa - le prof de physique

6.2

The Dandelions

2012

as Michel Gladstein

6.7

The Field of Enchantment

2011

as Le narrateur (voice)

The Conquest

as Nicolas Sarkozy

Omar Killed Me

as Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard

The First Man

as Professor Bernard

8 Times Up

as Mathieu

George et Fanchette

as Agricol Thiercellin

The Screen Illusion

2010

as Matamore

3.8

An Ordinary Execution

2010

as Le concierge

7.0

Eleanor's Secret

2009

as Le Père - dad (voice)

The Ordinary People

as Gilles Bergerat

L'Avare

as Harpagon

State Affairs

2009

as Flandin

5.8

Neuilly Yo Mama!

2009

as Stanislas de Chazelle

Park Benches

as Aimé Mermot

Sagan

as Guy Schoeller

Coluche

as Jacques Attali

Coupable

as Louis Berger

Intrusions

as Alexis Taget

Figaro

2008

as Figaro

7.0

Skirt Day

2008

as Chief Brigadier Labouret, negotiator

7.1

Quiet Chaos

2008

as Thierry

6.5

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

Max & Co

as Martin (voice)

Le Pendu

as Legoff

La Vie d'artiste

as Bertrand

The Da Vinci Code

as Flight Controller

Sartre, Years of Passion

2006

as Jean-Paul Sartre

6.2

Un an

2006

as Louis-Philippe

A Year in My Life

2006

as Falmin

5.8

Le 4ème Morceau de la femme coupée en 3

2006

as Dominique, le professeur d'auto-école

Caché

as Yvon

Grey Souls

as Le policier

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

2005

as Joseph "Rouletabille" Joséphin

Royal Palace

as Titi

Green Paradise

as Lucas

The Bridge of Arts

2004

as Guigui, alias l'Innomable

6.3

Welcome to Switzerland

2004

as Thierry

5.0

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

2003

as Joseph Rouletabille

6.6

It's Easier for a Camel...

as Philippe

Business is Booming

as Claude Carle

Safe Conduct

as Jean Aurenche

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

2002

as Self

Summer Things

as Jérôme

Almost Peaceful

as Charles

Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance

2001

as Thomas Meils

Mortal Transfer

2001

as Inspector Chapireau

The Officers' Ward

as Henri

Freedom-Oleron

as Jacques Monot

Candidature

as Jean Dupuis

La voleuse de Saint-Lubin

2001

as L'avocat

Le misanthrope

as Alceste

Charge!

as Yvan

The Soeur Brothers

as Jacques Sœur

Comedy of Innocence

as Pierre

The Children of the Century

as Sainte-Beuve

Nothing About Robert

as Martin

Only God Sees Me

as Albert

Les Fourberies de Scapin

as Octave

In All Innocence

as Martorel

Jeanne and the Perfect Guy

as Julien

La Mort du Chinois

as Gérard

The Gods Must Be Daring

1997

as Marc

4.0

Diary of a Seducer

1996

as Accompanying Male Nurse

5.2

La Belle Verte

1996

as Papapote

7.2

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument

as Jean-Jacques

L'Échappée belle

as Sanchez

I Am Your Punishment

as The Failed Killer

The Unloved

1995

as Le jeune père

Inner City

as Employé de l'ANPE

Voilà

Something Fishy

as Martin

A Night in Versailles

1992

as Arnaud

6.7

Mother

1991

as Soghomon Tehlirian

7.8

Xenia

1989

as Matthieu

9.5

Jealous White Men

La Nuit des Rois ou Tout Ce Que Vous Voulez

as Orsino

Television (12)

Mitterrand confidentiel

2026

as François Mitterrand

Iris

2024

7.5

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

2023

as Self - Guest

Irma Vep

2022

as Police Prefect

6.5

Cherchez la femme !

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

9.0

France between the two wars

2019

as Voix off

9.3

Élysée, la solitude du pouvoir

2017

as Narrator (voice)

Casting(s)

2013

as Self

6.4

Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers) - version interminable

2008

as Albert

9.0

Chez Maupassant

2007

as le comte de Sallure

Le Grand Charles

as Claude Mauriac

Les Misérables

as Scaufflaire

Crew (14)

Movies (14)

Faust – Opéra de Lille

2025

Director

Falstaff - OPÉRA DE LILLE

2023

Director

Les Fourberies de Scapin

2020

Director

8.5

Fortunio

2019

Stage Director

Les Fourberies de Scapin

2017

Director

Cyrano de Bergerac

Stage Director

Granny's Funeral

Writer

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

2012

Stage Director

Le Mental de l'équipe

2008

Stage Director

Cyrano de Bergerac

2007

Director

Green Paradise

2004

Writer

Freedom-Oleron

Writer

Only God Sees Me

Dialogue

A Night in Versailles

1992

Dialogue

6.7