Jean-Louis Trintignant

ActorWriterDirector Dec 11 (died age 91) Piolenc, Vaucluse, France 1956–2026 (70 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Amour

Georges

Film

Three Colors: Red

The Judge

Film

Il Sorpasso

Roberto Mariani

Film

The City of Lost Children

L'oncle Irvin (voice)

Film

The Conformist

Marcello Clerici

Film

Z

Examining Magistrate

Film

Last Tango in Paris

Dialogue

Film

The Great Silence

Silence

Filmography

Acting (180)

Movies (168)

One Hero, The People

2026

as Excerpt from the film Z (archive footage)

The Most Precious of Cargoes

as Narrateur (voice)

Shoot to Live

as Self

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu

2021

as Self

6.5

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

2021

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.0

Trintignant by Trintignant

2021

as Self

6.8

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables

2021

as Self (archive footage)

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

2019

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.0

The Best Years of a Life

2019

as Jean-Louis Duroc

6.6

Making of Happy End

2018

as Self

Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque

2018

as Self

Happy End

2017

as Georges Laurent

6.2

Filming Silenzio

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Cinéma Jacques Perrin

2014

as Self

Bardot, The Misunderstanding

2013

7.5

Michael H. – Profession: Director

as Self

Michel

as Narrator

Making of Amour

as Self

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

Amour

as Georges

Close Up

as Self (archive footage)

9.5

Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis

2012

as Self

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

2011

as Self

7.6

Le Miracle du silence

2010

as Self

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010

as Self

6.2

Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France

2009

Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"

2009

as Self

The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

as Self

Janis and John

as Monsieur Cannon

Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve

2002

as Narator

7.7

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

1999

as Narration (Voice)

8.3

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

1998

as Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich

6.0

C'est jamais loin

1996

as Elliot Spencer

A Self-Made Hero

1996

as Albert Dehousse (old)

Tykho Moon

as Le chirurgien

L'insoumise

as Roquepenne

The City of Lost Children

1995

as L'oncle Irvin (voice)

Fiesta

as Colonel Masagual

Three Colors: Red

as The Judge

Kieślowski Cannes 94

as Self

See How They Fall

1994

as Marx

6.5

Shattered Lives

1994

as Récitant (texte de Paul Éluard) (voice)

Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary

1994

as Narrator (French version)

Angel's Wing

as Colonel Édouard

L'Interdiction

as Marquis d'Espard

L'Œil écarlate

1993

as René Montijoux

2.8

Dispute in Valladolid

1992

as Ginèse de Sepúlveda

6.9

The Big Pardon 2

1992

as Le Commissaire Duché (archive footage)

Thank You, Life

as le colonel SS

Julie de Carneilhan

as Herbert d'Espivant

Bunker Palace Hotel

1989

as Holm

6.3

Pour un oui ou pour un non

as H1

The Ghost Valley

as Paul

Le Moustachu

as le général Gougeard

4.4

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

as Jean-Louis Duroc

The Woman of My Life

as Pierre

August 15th

Going and Coming Back

as Roland Rivière

Rendez-vous

as Scrutzler

Volley for a Black Buffalo

as Mr. Fodó, teacher

Next Summer

as Paul

L'Homme aux yeux d'argent

as Mayene

Long Live Life

as François Gaucher

Le Bon Plaisir

as Le Président de la République

Femmes de personne

as Michel Gilquin

Under Fire

as Marcel Jazy

Cover Up

as Christian Lacassagne

Confidentially Yours

as Julien Vercel

Credo

as Prof. Lenski

The Big Pardon

1982

as Le commissaire Duché

6.2

Boulevard des assassins

1982

as Daniel Salmon

5.8

That Night of Varennes

as Monsieur Sauce

Blow to the Heart

as Dario

Deep Water

as Vic

An Assassin Passes By

as Ravic

Malevil

as Fulbert

Passion of Love

as Le médecin major

A Business of Men

as Louis Faguet

The Lady Banker

as Horace Vannister

The Terrace

as Enrico D'Orsi

I Love You All

as Julien Tellier

Swimming Instructor

as le jardinier

Melancoly Baby

as Pierre

Other People's Money

as Henri Rainier

The Passengers

as Alex Moineau

Faces of Love

as Victor

The Probability Factor

1976

as Fred Malone

3.4

The Desert of the Tartars

as Magg. Med. Rovine

The Honeymoon Trip

as Paul Carter

Rain over Santiago

as Le Sénateur

The Sunday Woman

as Massimo Campi

Act of Aggression

as Paul Varlin

Flic Story

as Émile Buisson

Playing with Fire

as Franz

Love at the Top

as Nicolas Mallet

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974

as The Police Commissioner

Violins at the Ball

as Him (Michel)

The Secret

as David Daguerre

Escapade

as Ferdinand

Défense de savoir

as Jean-Pierre Laubray

The Last Train

as Julien Maroyeur

A Full Day's Work

as Le Metteur en scène de la troupe des 'Enfants du Gard'

The Assassination

as François Darien

And Hope to Die

as Tony

The Outside Man

as Lucien Bellon

The Conformist

as Marcello Clerici

Without Apparent Motive

as Stéphane Carella

Opium and the Stick

as Chaudier

The Crook

as Simon the Swiss

Las secretas intenciones

as Miguel

Ramparts of Clay

as the entrepreneur

Crime Thief

as Jean Girod

as Examining Magistrate

The American

as Bruno

My Night at Maud's

as Jean-Louis

So Sweet... So Perverse

as Jean Reynaud

Love Circle

as Michele

The Great Silence

as Silence

Les Biches

as Paul Thomas

Western, Italian Style

1968

as Self

6.4

The Libertine

1968

as Dr. Carlo De Marchi

5.2

The Man Who Lies

1968

as Jan Robin / Boris Varissa

6.6

Death Laid an Egg

1968

as Marco

5.5

La société est une fleur carnivore

1968

as Narrator

Deadly Sweet

as Bernard

My Love, My Love

as Vincent Falaise

A Man to Kill

as Raphaël

A Man and a Woman

as Jean-Louis Duroc

Is Paris Burning?

as Captain Serge

Long March

as Philippe

Trans-Europ-Express

as Elias

Diamond Safari

as Raphaël Vincente

Seventeenth Heaven

as François

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

1965

as Claude le Petit, dit Le poète croté

6.6

The Sleeping Car Murders

1965

as Éric Grandin, étudiant vétérinaire

6.9

I Kill, You Kill

1965

as Gianni Santi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

3.7

The Real Bargain

1965

as Jacques Danzac

1.0

Fragilité, ton nom est femme

The Last Steps

as Georges Guichard

Mata Hari, Agent H21

as Captain François Lasalle

5.6

Avatar

1964

as Octave

Les Siffleurs

1964

as Jean-Louis Trintignant

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

1963

as Frédéric

5.2

Way of the Wrong Road

Il successo

as Sergio

L'un d'entre vous

as René Dézange

Un jour à Paris

1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

1962

as Bernard Duparc (segment "La luxure")

Lust

as Bernard Duparc

Il Sorpasso

as Roberto Mariani

The Fabiani Affair

as Joseph Fabiani

Le Combat dans l'île

as Clément Lesser

Parisienne... Parisiennes

1962

as Récitant (voice)

The Game of Truth

1961

as Guy de Fleury

5.9

Spotlight on a Murderer

1961

as Jean-Marie de Kerloquen

6.5

Journey Beneath the Desert

1961

as Pierre

2.4

Three Faces of Sin

1961

as Guest at the opening

6.3

The French Game

1960

as François

6.0

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960

as Ségur fils

6.6

The Thousandth Window

1960

as Georges Desvignes

Dangerous Love Affairs

as Danceny

Violent Summer

as Carlo Caremoli

...And God Created Woman

as Michel Tardieu

Club of Women

as Michel

If All the Guys in the World...

1956

as Jean-Louis

7.0

Law of the Streets

1956

as Yves Tréguier aka 'Le Breton'

7.0

Television (12)

From Rock Star to Killer

2025

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Square

2012

as Self

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

2011

as Self

6.4

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Kulturzeit

as self

Nulle part ailleurs

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Numéro un

as Self

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

Le Train Bleu s'arrête 13 fois

1965

as Mezure

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

L'Œil écarlate

Adaptation

Swimming Instructor

Director

A Full Day's Work

Screenplay

Last Tango in Paris

Dialogue