Jean-Louis Trintignant
Date of birth: 1930-12-11
Place of birth: Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jean Louis Trintignant, Жан-Луи Тринтинян, Жан-Луј Тринтињан, Žan-Luj Trintignant
Biography
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Three Colors: Red
1994-05-12
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At fir
Les Biches
1968-03-22
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her vil
Journey Beneath the Desert
1961-05-05
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and ge
The Last Train
1973-10-31
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en
Confidentially Yours
1983-08-10
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid sec
Z
1969-02-26
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to sup
Lust
1962-03-07
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it
The Sleeping Car Murder
1965-11-17
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destina
Swimming Instructor
1979-03-28
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where
The Lady Banker
1980-08-27
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of
Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be
The Secret
1974-10-09
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain a
Les Siffleurs
1964-12-04
Young actors drift around Paris looking for job opportunities in pursuit of their happiness. The Fin
Il Sorpasso
1962-12-05
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who tak
The Conformist
1971-01-29
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of h
...And God Created Woman
1956-11-28
Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, th
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
1998-05-15
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey,
A Business of Men
1981-11-09
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by
The Great Silence
1968-11-22
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a
Flic Story
1975-10-01
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psy
Thank You, Life
1991-03-13
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more
Rendez-vous
1985-05-15
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021-10-11
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trint
I Love You All
1980-12-17
Alice invites her past two lovers and her current to Christmas dinner uniting them all in her house.
Filming Silenzio
2017-01-01
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage f
A Man and a Woman
1966-05-27
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly,
Love at the Top
1974-03-13
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When
Dangerous Love Affairs
1959-09-09
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
1965-07-07
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. Aft
Bunker Palace Hotel
1989-06-06
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble
The Man Who Lies
1968-03-27
A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been
Le Combat dans l’île
1962-08-16
The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a
The Woman of My Life
1986-10-08
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the m
See How They Fall
1994-08-31
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earl
Playing with Fire
1975-02-19
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Close Up
2012-09-30
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc
Malevil
1981-05-13
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is i
Opium and the Stick
1970-09-14
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occup
L'Œil écarlate
1993-07-21
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.
The Battle of Austerlitz
1960-06-17
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
The Thousandth Window
1960-05-27
An old man against the public housing project.
Spotlight on a Murderer
1961-03-31
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's
The Outside Man
1972-12-21
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apar
The Desert of the Tartars
1976-10-29
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an immine
Long March
1966-05-31
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man
Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"
2009-02-13
Portrait of Jean-Louis Trintignant for the "empreintes" collection.
Rain over Santiago
1975-12-10
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General P
Janis and John
2003-10-15
Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: arraigning for
A Self-Made Hero
1996-05-15
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and
My Night at Maud's
1969-06-04
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Chris
Act of Aggression
1975-04-16
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge
Deadly Sweet
1967-11-16
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car acci
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021-01-15
The Libertine
1968-12-23
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she deci
Un jour à Paris
1962-01-01
A young man goes looking for work on a cold, rainy weekday morning in Paris. He buys an umbrella for
Trans-Europ-Express
1966-12-31
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They ge
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962-03-07
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic
Dispute in Valladolid
1992-07-20
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. Bu
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
2012-05-21
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963-11-20
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, d
And Hope to Die
1972-09-15
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go qu
The Sunday Woman
1975-12-23
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. T
Blow to the Heart
1982-12-24
The son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and has to decide what to do ab
Deep Water
1981-12-16
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating
The Terrace
1980-02-08
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. T
The Probability Factor
1976-04-07
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of
Shoot to Live
2022-05-11
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
Other People's Money
1978-09-27
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-
Amour
2012-09-20
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter,
Le Moustachu
1987-04-08
The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do th
The Game of Truth
1961-11-26
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agath
Going and Coming Back
1985-03-27
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", ho
Violent Summer
1959-11-13
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a
Way of the Wrong Road
1963-09-06
In the course of an investigation into a gang of asocial youngsters, the author meets Colette (19) a
Le Bon Plaisir
1984-01-18
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now
The Crook
1970-11-20
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Without Apparent Motive
1971-09-15
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge
The Assassination
1972-10-04
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to
Western, Italian Style
1968-01-01
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the
Long Live Life
1984-04-18
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose t
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
2005-03-31
Love Circle
1969-04-13
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner par
Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
2021-09-01
This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often amus
A Man to Kill
1967-11-10
Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has be
Défense de savoir
1973-08-29
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections.
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
2014-12-31
This is the story of a cinema adventurer, but also that of a free man with convictions. The entertai
Il successo
1963-09-24
Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be ha
Angel's Wing
1993-01-27
When a plane crashes in his back yard, a wealthy young man (Lambert Wilson) decides he would rather
Boulevard des assassins
1982-03-29
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides t
Mata Hari, Agent H21
1964-01-29
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer a
L'Interdiction
1993-09-18
An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged h
C'est jamais loin
1996-01-10
In Dieppe, a taciturn young man is fascinated by a woman whom he has only seen in the street. One da
Michael H. – Profession: Director
2013-03-15
Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figur
Violins at the Ball
1974-06-02
In this WW II drama based on an autobiographical story by director Michel Drach, a Jewish boy and hi
Michel
2013-01-12
Michel has lived in a psychiatric hospital for many years. Blaise Othnin-Girard is fascinated by thi
An Assassin Passes By
1981-04-08
The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once
Crime Thief
1969-05-22
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
Fiesta
1995-11-15
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
Law of the Streets
1956-04-25
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in P
Passion of Love
1981-09-16
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from
Cover Up
1983-08-24
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade
Faces of Love
1977-11-16
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can m
Club of Women
1956-05-18
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-fem
The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024-11-20
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and
The Big Pardon
1982-01-27
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew
The Passengers
1977-03-09
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck
August 15th
1986-08-06
In a villa by the sea, in August, a woman spends her vacation with another young woman, her son and
Making of Happy End
2018-02-06
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
2018-12-02
Fifteen years after his death, this documentary looks back on Jacques Deray's career. Who was really
If All the Guys in the World...
1956-02-24
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
The Ghost Valley
1987-09-16
The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling woman in his production.
Femmes de personne
1984-03-14
Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985-05-16
During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to
L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
1985-11-13
After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But
Next Summer
1985-01-09
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010-09-01
Julie de Carneilhan
1990-02-20
Under Fire
1983-10-21
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
The Real Bargain
1965-03-09
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it
Three Faces of Sin
1961-09-12
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique
Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve
2002-04-23
An exhaustive retrospective commented by Zidane, his greatest goals, soccer lessons where Zidane rev
The City of Lost Children
1995-05-17
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow hi
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
2022-01-01
"And God Created Woman", "Il Sorpasso", "A Man and a Woman", "The Conformist", "Amour"... the list o
Diamond Safari
1966-06-18
Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he bec
L'insoumise
1996-09-20
TV movie directed by Nadine Trintignant.
The French Game
1960-12-26
Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend Fra
Pour un oui ou pour un non
1989-10-06
Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk a
Happy End
2017-06-21
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying l
My Love, My Love
1967-06-08
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant b
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974-03-07
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The gir
Tykho Moon
1996-11-28
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris d
Melancoly Baby
1979-08-29
Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he
The Night of Varennes
1982-05-15
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - th
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
1994-02-24
A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas
The Honeymoon Trip
1976-04-21
Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999-03-09
The Last Steps
1964-05-27
A young poster artist sees an older married woman among the audience of a Parisian movie theater and
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986-05-13
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating
The Fabiani Affair
1962-01-24
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing a
La société est une fleur carnivore
1968-05-12
"Society is a carnivorous flower" - About activists in the student revolt in May 1968. Archive foota
Shattered Lives
1994-05-07
August 1939. The fate of four young people, Ramona, Georges, Brigitte and Hans is upset by the outbr
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005-01-01
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer'
The Best Years of a Life
2019-05-22
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in t
Seventeenth Heaven
1966-04-27
The brave and moody François, a window washer by trade, has fallen head over heels in love with a de
Kieślowski Cannes 94
1994-12-31
A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival,
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019-04-03
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of
Credo
1983-01-26
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defen
Fragilité, ton nom est femme
1965-01-01
Death Laid an Egg
1968-01-09
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (wh
I Kill, You Kill
1965-03-25
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969-10-31
An industrialist's affair with a troubled woman entangles him in a dangerous situation with her abus
The Big Pardon 2
1992-12-09
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker
The American
1969-09-24
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among ol
Escapade
1974-04-10
Le Miracle du silence
2010-01-01
Las secretas intenciones
1970-07-29
Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted sui
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011-10-01
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view o
A Full Day's Work
1973-03-08
A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Parisienne... Parisiennes
1962-01-01
Ramparts of Clay
1970-11-11
In an Algerian village, the workers of a salt mine go on strike because of low wages. The owner call
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021-11-15
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta
Making of Amour
2013-05-08
The Making of Amour
L'un d'entre vous
1963-12-07
The leader of a youth movement is suspected of the murder of his best friend and supporter. A televi
Avatar
1964-07-22
Hopelessly in love, young aristocrat Octave seeks the help of a magician to exchange bodies with his
One Hero, The People
2026-01-07
Adam Bensoltane takes us through the birth of Algerian cinema, in his native country, across the age
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009-10-21
The life and career of screen siren, Brigitte Bardot.