Person Details

Birthday: 1948-03-16 07:15:13

Aliases: Claude Legrand

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Boulogne Billancourt, France

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Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 14


Most Famous Work

Biography

Jean-Claude Dauphin, born Claude Legrand on March 16, 1948 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French actor. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famous. In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Murders in...
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7

Murders in...

(2013) Franck Keller
Love at First Sight
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3

Love at First Sight

(1992) Jérôme Sénéchal
Maigret
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7

Maigret

(1991) Le maire Grandmaison
Police Commissioner Moulin
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6

Police Commissioner Moulin

(1976) Bernard Deffoux
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
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10

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

(1996) Narrator (voice)
Claudine
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8

Claudine

(1978) Armand Duplessis
Madame le juge
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0

Madame le juge

(1978) Nicolas, le greffier
Le Temps des as
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Le Temps des as

(1978) Étienne Leroux

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2020 Yves Fontanelle
2019 Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
2015 Général Garsac
2013 Franck Keller
2012 George Armant
Narrator (French voice)
Le Ministre
2011 Maître Fonlupt
2008 Stéphane Weber
2007 Jacques
Chenal âgé
2001 Père de Claire et Emilie
Le commissaire
2000 Fouquier
1999 Vogel
Alain
Narrator (voice)
1998 Louis-Guy
1997 Narrator (voice)
1996 Jean Monceau
Narrator (voice)
1995 Le Govain
1993 Voice
1992 Jérôme Sénéchal
1991 Le maire Grandmaison
Philippe Martel
1990 Blancpain
1989 Ernest
1987 Jupin
1986 Le deuxième flic
Toussaint
1985 Gautier
1983 Vietti
Savary
1981 Léon Lécuyer
Ricky
Léon Lécuyer
1978 Étienne Leroux
Armand Duplessis
Nicolas, le greffier
1977 Frédérik Maller
Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
Martin
1976 Cristéa/Christian
Bernard Deffoux
1974 Solnes
Gilbert Morgan
Antonello di Terracina
1972 N/A
Alain
1971 Pierre Sesterain
Nicolas
1969 Thomas
1968 Henri Adolphe
Year Character Movie/Tv

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