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Jean-Claude Dauphin

Jean-Claude Dauphin

Known For Acting
Birthday Mar 16, 1948 (77)
Birthplace Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Updated Aug 05, 2025
Entry Date Apr 21, 2024
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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 3.0.

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Six-Pack

Six-Pack

2000

as Fouquier

Georges Bataille - À perte de vue

Georges Bataille - À perte de vue

1997

as Narrator (voice)

The Saint: The Big Bang

The Saint: The Big Bang

1990

as Blancpain

Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie

1989

as Ernest

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

as Swiss editor

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Les Héritiers

as Frédérik Maller

Episodes: 16

First Aired: Sep 24, 1977

Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000

as Pierre Sesterain

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 24, 1971

Adresse Inconnue

as Stéphane Weber

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Apr 19, 2008

Reporters

as Laurent Dewilder

Episodes: 8

First Aired: May 08, 2007

The Passenger

as Général Garsac

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Nov 06, 2015

Madame le Juge

as Nicolas, le greffier

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Mar 11, 1978

Los Desastres de la Guerra

as Savary

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jun 06, 1983

Le Temps des as

as Étienne Leroux

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Oct 26, 1978

Le Secret des Flamands

as Antonello di Terracina

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jan 03, 1974

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

as Narrator (voice)

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Apr 20, 1996

Au bon beurre

as Léon Lécuyer

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 13, 1981

Love at First Sight

as Jérôme Sénéchal

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 12, 1992

Chez Maupassant

as Chenal âgé

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 06, 2007

Maigret

as Le maire Grandmaison

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 01, 1991

Murders in...

as Franck Keller

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 23, 2013

Police Commissioner Moulin

as Bernard Deffoux

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 04, 1976

Claudine

as Armand Duplessis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 12, 1978

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