JeanClaude 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 grandson of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain his fathers brother At Lycée PaulValéry in Paris he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux a specialist in Seneca His debut in 1968 in Adolphe ou lÂge tendre Adolphe or the tender Age directed by Bernard ToublancMichel made him famo In 1969 he plays Claude Jades fiancé in The Witness At the time Claude Jade and JeanClaude 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 Molinaros 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 Huguesleloup Dracula and Son In 1980 he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau He is also the voiceover 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 Jacquots 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 JeanClaude Dauphin from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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