Person Details

Birthday: 1955-03-04 13:10:00

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France

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Movie Involvements: 72

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

Biography

After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France. Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander. He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

Most Famous Work

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Average
8
Outlander
Average
8

Outlander

(2014) Master Raymond
Alien Resurrection
Average
6

Alien Resurrection

(1997) Dom Vriess
Nachtschicht
Average
7

Nachtschicht

(2003) Emile Gaspard
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Average
6

Metal Hurlant Chronicles

(2012) Stanley Summers
Betty Blue
Average
7

Betty Blue

(1986) Surfer
The City of Lost Children
Average
7

The City of Lost Children

(1995) The Diver / The Clones
Cassandre
Average
6

Cassandre

(2015) Jean-Pierre Marchand

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 N/A
2023 Antoine
Gueule de Bois
Self (archive footage)
2022 Roger
Le détective privé
N/A
Horacio
Igor
2021 Homais
Le notaire
Jean Rosen
Le pompiste
2019 L'Inspecteur Ducros
Jean-Luc Barrouf
Jean Luc
Pichon
French Restaurant Manager
Monk Dominic
Raymond Vachs
2018 Lucien
N/A
Beauty Smith (voice)
2017 Raymond
(voice)
Noël
Magazine Editor
Basile Matrin
2016 Michel
2015 Jean-Pierre Marchand
Serge
Fernand Leger
Bernard
2014 Investigator
Taxi 2
Monsieur Lefebvre
Master Raymond
2013 Two Clouds
L'inspecteur d'académie
2012 Stanley Summers
Colonel Otto Strudel
L'inspecteur Lamentin
2011 Homme caravane
Fouché
Gobert
2010 Narrator
Maurice Lemoine
Mougin, le sorcier
Père de Roger
2009 Rudy
Fracasse
Gildas
Jean Baptiste
Hubert Petitpont
Inspector
2008 Simon
N/A
Hamm
Frank
César
2007 Pascal Rossignol
Toni
Pierre Laclos / Louis
2006 Detective Ringwald
Stef
Axel
2005 Oncle Goran
Rodolphe Peretti
Dragomir
Le SDF
2004 His Excellency's Fop
Sylvain
Charlie Jackson
Le clochard
Detective Weiss
Petit cowboy
2003 Henri Lafont
le lieutenant
Emile Gaspard
Fredy Mazas
Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
2002 The Butcher
2001 Frère Godefroy
'La Buse'
Jean-Pierre
Robert
P'tit gars
Joseph
2000 Armani
Jacky Carpe
Pilot
1999 Melvin
Trouillefou
1997 Dom Vriess
Adrien
Eugène
1996 Le brigadier Morel
'Pastel de Fer'
1995 The Diver / The Clones
1994 K.O Kid
1993 Angel
Bernard
1992 Eugène Blouzette
1991 Bruno
Louison
Dominique
1990 Napoléon III
1989 Drouet
Man
1988 Woitech
Albert
Wino
N/A
1987 Gato
1986 Fred
Jean-Pierre
Tom
Frédéric
Surfer
1985 Pierre
Niklaus Lauretz
Marcel Noblet
Un villageois
Monsieur Pichon
1984 Monkey
Roger
1983 Salesman/Guide
Frank
Ybar
N/A
1982 Un fou (uncredited)
Daniel Verlot
Antoine
N/A
Musician
1981 Le curé
1980 The young painter
N/A
N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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