Philippe Leotard; French Actor on TV and in Movies
Philippe Leotard, 60, French actor who worked with noted directors Francois Truffaut and Claude LeLouch and won a Cesar, his country’s equivalent of the Oscar, died Saturday in a Paris clinic.
Born in the Riviera resort city of Nice in 1940, Leotard had a television and movie career that spanned three decades and included more than 70 films, the first being a made-for-TV movie, “Crime and Punishment,” in 1966.
The actor won his Cesar for his role in the 1983 film, “The Balance.” In addition to Truffaut and LeLouch, Leotard worked with Fred Zinnemann in “Day of the Jackal” and John Frankenheimer in “French Connection II.”
Leotard spent years battling drug and alcohol addiction, which he detailed in a 1997 book. He was the elder brother of French diplomat Francois Leotard, who serves as the European Union emissary to Macedonia.
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