Philippe Leroy (actor)

Philippe Leroy (actor)
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu (born 15 October 1930) is a French actor. He has appeared in over 150 films since 1960, and has worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country. 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.
Early life
Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu was born in Paris on 15 October 1930 to a prominent family. His ancestors included economist Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, historian Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, and architect Jean-François Leroy. He worked on an ocean liner as a teenager, and spent a year abroad in New York City.
Military service
In 1953, he 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. 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. He retired as a captain.
Acting career
Leroy made his film debut in 1960 as a character based on José Giovanni in Jacques Becker’s prison drama The Hole. Becker cast all non-professional actors as his leads to lend a sense of authenticity, Leroy among them. His performance won international recognition, and he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor.
In 1962 he went to Italy and he started working in many Italian films and TV fictions, such as Renato Castellani's The Life of Leonardo da Vinci. He also played the role of Yanez de Gomera, Sandokan's partner, in 1976 TV series Sandokan.
During his career, he has worked with directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Deray, Dario Argento, Luc Besson, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Magni and many more.
Personal life
Leroy married Italian journalist Silvia Tortora in 1990. They were married until her death on 10 January 2022. They had two children; Philippe and Michelle. He also has another child, actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, from a previous marriage.
Leroy has continued parachuting as a hobby. He is 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.
Filmography
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
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 (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
References
Bibliography
External links
1930 births
Living people
French male film actors
French expatriates in Italy
Male actors from Paris
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors
French military personnel of the First Indochina War
French military personnel of the Algerian War
Officers of the French Foreign Legion
Paratroopers
French expatriate actors
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