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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 16, 1948
Place of Birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Also Known As
- Claude Legrand
Jean-Claude Dauphin
0.2 Popularity
Biography
Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. 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 famo 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.
Known For
5.8
Yves Fontanelle
Un mauvais garçon
2020
6.0
Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
Murder In La Rochefoucauld
2019
7.0
Général Garsac
The Passenger
2015
7.3
Franck Keller
Murders in...
2013
🎬
8.0
Le Ministre
La Grande Peinture
2013
6.0
George Armant
Brother and Sister
2012
0.0
Narrator (French voice)
Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
2012
5.0
Maître Fonlupt
Accusé Mendès France
2011
6.5
Minister
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
2009
6.2
Stéphane Weber
Adresse Inconnue
2008
Credits
Un mauvais garçon
as Yves Fontanelle
2020
5.8
Murder In La Rochefoucauld
as Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
2019
6.0
The Passenger
as Général Garsac
2015
7.0
Murders in...
as Franck Keller
2013
7.3
🎬
La Grande Peinture
as Le Ministre
2013
8.0
Brother and Sister
as George Armant
2012
6.0
Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
as Narrator (French voice)
2012
0.0
Accusé Mendès France
as Maître Fonlupt
2011
5.0
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
as Minister
2009
6.5
Adresse Inconnue
as Stéphane Weber
2008
6.2
The Second Wind
as Jacques
2007
6.0
Reporters
as Laurent Dewilder
2007
4.0
Chez Maupassant
as Chenal âgé
2007
7.5
Tender Souls
as Père de Claire et Emilie
2001
3.0
Don't Die Too Hard!
as The Commissioner
2001
6.3
Six-Pack
as Fouquier
2000
5.7
Le sourire du clown
as Vogel
1999
5.0
Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve
as Narrator (voice)
1999
8.0
The School of Flesh
as Louis-Guy
1998
5.2
Why Not Me?
as Alain
1998
5.6
Georges Bataille - À perte de vue
as Narrator (voice)
1997
7.0
Le Poids d'un secret
as Jean Monceau
1996
0.0
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
as Narrator (voice)
1996
10.0
Samson le magnifique
as Le Govain
1995
10.0
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice)
1994
7.3
Love at First Sight
as Jérôme Sénéchal
1992
3.0
Maigret
as Le maire Grandmaison
1991
7.6
Netchayev is Back
as Philippe Martel
1991
4.8
The Saint: The Big Bang
as Blancpain
1990
4.0
Champagne Charlie
as Ernest
1989
3.0
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as Swiss editor
1988
6.9
Charlie Dingo
as Jupin
1987
6.0
Nuit d'ivresse
as 2nd Policeman
1986
6.0
Yiddish Connection
as Toussaint
1986
8.0
Spécial police
as Durand
1985
4.0
L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps
as Gautier
1985
5.5
Une jeunesse
as Vietti
1983
0.0
Los desastres de la guerra
as Savary
1983
0.0
Sarah
as Senechal
1983
5.3
Au bon beurre
as Léon Lécuyer
1981
0.0
Choice of Arms
as Ricky
1981
6.5
Au bon beurre
as Léon Lécuyer
1981
7.0
Le Temps des as
as Étienne Leroux
1978
0.0
Claudine
as Armand Duplessis
1978
4.9
Madame le Juge
as Nicolas, le greffier
1978
7.5
Les Héritiers
as Frédérik Maller
1977
10.0
Last Exit Before Roissy
as Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
1977
7.0
Barry of the Great St. Bernard
as Martin
1977
0.0
Dracula and Son
as Cristéa/Christian
1976
6.0
Police Commissioner Moulin
as Bernard Deffoux
1976
5.8
The Suspects
as Solnes
1974
5.2
Chance and Violence
as Gilbert Morgan
1974
3.9
Le Secret des Flamands
as Antonello di Terracina
1974
0.0
Handsome Face
as Philippe
1972
0.0
What a Flash!
1972
4.1
La Mandarine
as Alain
1972
4.4
Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000
as Pierre Sesterain
1971
0.0
The Friends
as Nicolas
1971
5.6
The Witness
as Thomas
1969
0.0
The Tender Age
as Henri Adolphe
1968
8.0