Philippe Leroy
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Philippe Leroy | |
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Born | Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu 15 October 1930 |
Died | 1 June 2024 Rome, Italy | (aged 93)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1960–2019 |
Spouses | |
Children | 3; including Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu |
Military career | |
Allegiance | France |
Service/ | French Foreign Legion |
Years of service | 1953–1960 |
Rank | Captain |
Commands held | 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment |
Battles/wars | French Indochina War Algerian War |
Awards | Chevalier Légion d'Honneur Croix de la Valeur Militaire Croix de Guerre des Theatres d'Operations Exterieurs Medaille commemorative de la Campagne d'Indochine |
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu (15 October 1930 – 1 June 2024) was a French actor. He appeared in over 150 films from 1960, and worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country.[1] He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor for his debut performance in Jacques Becker’s The Hole (1960), and for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for playing the title role in the Italian miniseries The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971). He was previously a decorated paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion, where he served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War.[2][3]
Early life[edit]
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu was born in Paris on 15 October 1930 to an aristocratic family;[2][4] his ancestors included economist Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, historian Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, and architect Jean-François Leroy.[citation needed] At the age of 17, he started working on an ocean liner,[2][4] and spent a year abroad in New York City.[citation needed]
Military service[edit]
In 1953, Leroy enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and served as a paratrooper in the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment in the French Indochina War. He later became a reservist, and served in the Algerian War as a 2nd Lieutenant.[2][3] He was awarded two decorations of the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, a Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures, and the Cross for Military Valour for his service.[citation needed] He retired as a captain.[4]
Acting career[edit]
Leroy made his acting debut in 1960, starring as Manu Borelli in Jacques Becker’s last movie, the crime film The Hole,[5] an adaptation of José Giovanni's 1957 book The Break.[5][6] His performance won international recognition,[4] and he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor at the 15th British Academy Film Awards in 1962.[7]
In 1961, Leroy moved to Italy;[3] he subsequently met and became friends with film director Vittorio Caprioli and actress Franca Valeri,[4] the former of whom offered him a role in his film Leoni al sole.[3][4] In the same year, he also starred in Riccardo Freda's crime film Caccia all'uomo.[2] After settling permanently in Italy, he went on to starr in various films, such as Gianfranco De Bosio's The Terrorist (1963),[8] Marco Vicario's Seven Golden Men (1965),[3][4] Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974) and Luigi Comencini's The Cat.[8] However, he also kept working in French productions, including Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964) and Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita (1990).[3][8]
He also rose to prominence for his involvement in several TV fictions, most notably including Renato Castellani's The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971), where he starred as the Italian polymath, and Sergio Sollima's Sandokan (1976), where he played the role of Yanez de Gomera.[3][4]
In 2007, he starred in Dario Argento's Mother of Tears, the concluding installment of horror movie trilogy The Three Mothers;[3][8] in 2019, he made his last film appearance in Gianfrancesco Lazotti's La notte è piccola per noi.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Leroy married Italian journalist Silvia Tortora in 1990. They were married until her death on 10 January 2022.[9] They had two children; Philippe and Michelle. He also had another child, actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, from a previous marriage.[citation needed]
Leroy continued parachuting as a hobby.[10] He was a member of the parachuting division of the SS Lazio sports club, as well as a supporter of the Lazio's football team. In 2010 during the Rome Parashow, he celebrated his 80th birthday with a jump. In April 2011 (at the age of 81) he spent 12 days in Afghanistan with Italian paratroopers as a special correspondent.[11]
Leroy died in Rome on 1 June 2024, at the age of 93.[12]
Filmography[edit]
- Le Trou (1960) .... Manu Borelli
- Chaque minute compte (1960) .... Patrick
- Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) .... André
- Les filles sèment le vent (1961) .... Armand
- The Italian Brigands (1961) .... O Zelluso
- Leoni al sole (1961) .... Mimí
- Caccia all'uomo (1961) .... Mazzarò
- Careless (1962) .... Stefano Balli
- La loi des hommes (1962) .... Dandieu
- Alone Against Rome (1962) .... Silla
- The Shortest Day (1962) .... Soldato
- L'attico (1963) .... Tommaso
- 55 Days at Peking (1963) .... Julliard
- Le Quatrième Sexe (1963) .... Paul
- The Terrorist (1963) .... Rodolfo Boscovich
- Shivers in Summer (1964) .... Manolo
- Il treno del sabato (1964) .... Paolo Traversi
- Love in Four Dimensions (1964) .... Franco Lampredi, il marito (segment "Amore e arte")
- White Voices (1964) .... Don Ascanio
- Weeping for a Bandit (1964) .... Pedro Sánchez
- Castle of the Living Dead (1964) .... Eric[13]
- A Married Woman (1964) .... Pierre, the husband
- Amore facile (1964) .... Giovanni Bollati (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
- Love and Marriage (1964) .... (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
- Una storia di notte (1964) .... Jimmy
- The Naked Hours (1964) .... Massimo
- The Possessed (1965) .... Mario
- Seven Golden Men (1965) .... Albert (le professeur)
- The Mandrake (1965) .... Callimaco
- Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1965) .... Albert
- A Maiden for a Prince (1966) .... Ippolito
- The Almost Perfect Crime (1966) .... Paolo Respighi
- Yankee (1966) .... Yankee
- Che notte ragazzi! (1966) .... Tony
- Lo scandalo (1966) .... David
- Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore (1966) .... Nicola
- The Wild Eye (1967) .... Paolo
- La notte è fatta per... rubare (1968) .... George
- The Libertine (1968) .... Tennis Instructor
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) .... Vittorio
- Ecce Homo (1968) .... Jean
- Cuore di mamma (1969) .... Andrea Franti - Lorenza's ex-husband
- His Day of Glory (1969) .... The Commander
- Come, quando, perché (1969) .... Marco
- Senza sapere niente di lei (1969) .... Nanni Brà
- The Laughing Woman (1969) .... Dr. Sayer
- Mr. Superinvisible (1970)
- Senza via d'uscita (1970) .... Gilbert
- Cross Current (1971) .... Marco Breda
- Roma Bene (1971) .... Giorgio Santi
- The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971, TV Mini-Series) .... Leonardo da Vinci
- Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) .... Romolo 'Sartana' Moretti
- Hector the Mighty (1972) .... Ettore
- Panhandle 38 (1972) .... General Briscott
- Caliber 9 (1972) .... Chino
- Naked Girl Killed in the Park (1972) .... Martin
- Gang War in Milan (1973) .... Roger Daverty
- The Black Hand (1973) .... The Professor
- R.A.S. (1973) .... Commandant Lecoq
- The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973) .... Commissario Gianni De Carmine
- Long Lasting Days (1973) .... Philippe
- Cebo para una adolescente (1974) .... Ignacio
- The Night Porter (1974) .... Klaus
- Kidnap (1974) .... The Professor
- La svergognata (1974) .... Fabio Lorenzi
- Libera, My Love (1975) .... Franco Testa
- La nuora giovane (1975) .... Franco
- Il Soldato di ventura (1976) .... Charles La Motte
- La linea del fiume (1976) .... Padre di Giacomino
- Puttana galera! (1976) .... Col. Remy
- Mannaja (1977) .... Edward M. McGowan
- Beyond Good and Evil (1977) .... Peter Gast
- The Cat (1977) .... Don Pezzolla, the priest
- La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! (1977, TV Movie) .... Yanez de Gomera
- Quella strana voglia d'amare (1977)
- Gli ultimi angeli (1978) .... Massimo
- Covert Action (1978) .... Inspector Radi Stavropoulos
- Courage - Let's Run (1979) .... Eric Sylvain de Chalamond
- Il medium (1980)
- Qua la mano (1980) .... Pope
- Tranquille donne di campagna (1980) .... Guido Maldini
- Bello di mamma (1980) .... Duca William Trinacria
- Peccato originale (1981)
- Il tango della gelosia (1981) .... Principe Giulio Lovanelli
- Teste di quoio (1981) .... Comandante Bartoli
- State buoni se potete (1983) .... Ignazio di Loyola
- Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani (1984) .... Lupo
- Quo Vadis (1985, TV Mini-Series) .... Paul of Tarsus
- The Berlin Affair (1985) .... Herbert Gessler
- Juke box (1985)
- A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) .... Professeur Thevenin / Professor Thevenin
- La donna del traghetto (1986) .... Primo (Father of Viola)
- Incidente di percorso (1986)
- Montecarlo Gran Casinò (1987) .... Baron Duroc de Rothschild
- Umi e (1988)
- Don Bosco (1988) .... Leone XIII
- Deux (1989) .... M. Muller
- Un uomo di razza (1989) .... Giulio Romani
- Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (1989) .... Jacques
- La Femme Nikita (1990) .... Grossman
- The Man Inside (1990) .... Borges
- L'Autrichienne (1990) .... D'Estaing
- Il volo di Teo (1990)
- Netchaïev est de retour (1991) .... Luis Perez
- The Return of Casanova (1992) .... Emissaire
- Adelaide (1992) .... Koller
- Alibi perfetto (1992) .... Police Chief
- Berlin '39 (1993) .... Rostock
- Mario and the Magician (1994) .... Graziano
- Io e il re (1995) .... Conte
- In Love and War (1996) .... Count Sergio Caracciolo
- L'ombre du pharaon (1996)
- Cous-cous (1996) .... Isaia
- Le déménagement (1997) .... Le livreur 1
- The Fish in Love (1999) .... Autista
- The Town Is Quiet (2000) .... René (participation)
- Un giudice di rispetto (2000) .... Ing. Baldassarri
- Teste di cocco (2000) .... Himself / Yanez
- Vajont (2001) .... Giorgio dal Piaz
- Apri gli occhi e... sogna (2002)
- Joy - scherzi di gioia (2002)
- The Accidental Detective (2003) .... Mario Del Marro
- Five Moons Square (2003) .... Barista
- Le Cou de la girafe (2004) .... Maxime
- Father of Mercy (2004, TV Movie) .... Papa Pio XII
- The Mother of Tears (2007) .... Guglielmo De Witt
- The Rage (2008) .... Nonno
- Blood of the Losers (2008) .... Umberto Dogliani
- Le Premier Cercle (2009) .... Halami
- Nient'altro che noi (2009) .... Maestro di Violino
- Vorrei averti qui (2010) .... Paccotto
- La strada di Paolo (2011) .... Lucio
- Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti (2012) .... Joseph Milton-Dumonnier
- Questione di Karma (2017) .... Ludovico Stern
- Chi salverà le rose? (2017) .... Eugenio
- Una gita a Roma (2017) .... Jean
- Hotel Gagarin (2018) .... Virgil
- La notte è piccola per noi (2019) .... Furio
References[edit]
- ^ "Philippe Leroy". Allocine. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Addio all'attore francese Philippe Leroy, i funerali mercoledì a Roma". Rai News (in Italian). 1 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "È morto l'attore francese Philippe Leroy, noto per i suoi ruoli in "Sandokan", "La vita di Leonardo da Vinci" e "Don Matteo"". Il Post (in Italian). 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Spettacoli. È morto Philippe Leroy, gentiluomo prestato al cinema". Avvenire (in Italian). 1 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ a b Turan, Kenneth (31 August 2017). "Review: A prison-break classic is beautifully restored in Jacques Becker's 'Le Trou'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ Brady, Richard (22 June 2017). "The Hole Le Trou". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Film in 1962". BAFTA Awards. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d Dose, Nicoletta. "Philippe Leroy". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "È morta a 59 anni la giornalista Silvia Tortora, figlia di Enzo Tortora". Il Post. 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Tanti Auguri Philippe" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Philippe Leroy in Afghanistan con i para' - Associate - ANSA.it". www.ansa.it. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "E' morto l'attore francese Philippe Leroy". Rai News. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Curti 2015, p. 115.
Bibliography[edit]
- Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476619897.
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- French military personnel of the First Indochina War
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