Denis Lavant
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France — Jun 17 1961
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Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.
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The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
André Custe
Tokyo!
Merde' (segment "Merde")
The Traveller
Alberto
The Stranger
Salamano
Midnight Sun
Pierre Carnot
Beau Travail
Galoup
My Little Princess
Ernst
A Very Long Engagement
Six-Soux
Holy Motors
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Silver Skates
Fourier
The Night Eats the World
Alfred
Hood Witch
Jules
In the Name of Blood
Jacques
The Emperor of Paris
Maillard
The Lovers on the Bridge
Alex
La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo
Gagarine
Gérard
Mister Lonely
Charlie Chaplin
Journey to the West
Dragon
Wild Animals
Emil
Les Misérables
Montparnasse
Me and Kaminski
Karl-Ludwig
Tralala
Climby
Mauvais Sang
Alex
The Iron Ivan
Eugene de Paris
The Bra
Kamal
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Koenig
It's Not Me
Monsieur Merde
Pitchipoï
Pierre Schulmann
Redoubt
Karl-Göran Persson
Girls with Balls
Barman
Entre Nous
Un militaire
Tell Me Iggy
Self
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
The Theologist
The Mountain
Jack
Mr. X
Self
The Wounded Man
Wanderer
Going and Coming Back
Simon Lerner's patient
Don Juan
Pierrot
Tuvalu
Anton
Hotel Fantasma
Once Around the Park
Berville
Melody for a Hustler
L'auto-stoppeur
History's Future
Lottery Ticket Seller
Morning Star
Elliot
Boris Without Beatrice
L'Inconnu
Graziella
Antoine
Long Live Life
Caviar delivery man
Captain Ahab
Capitaine Achab
Sibyl
(Archive footage)
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Self
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Marcel Dassault
3 Days in Quiberon
Fisherman Poet
Mona and I
Pierre
After Midnight
(voice)
Married/Unmarried
Love
Le mystère des jonquilles
Sam
In the Land of Arto
Rob
Wild Camp
Blaise
Boy Meets Girl
Alex
Visiblement je vous aime
Denis
The Temptation of St. Tony
Count Korzybski
The Escapade
Jacques
South Sentinel
Commandant de Royer
De force avec d'autres
Denis
Poisson rouge
Père de Guillaume
21 Nights with Pattie
André
Eye of the Astronomer
Jean Kepler
Hyacinthe
Reda
Night of the Kings
Silence
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Bezon
One Nation, One King
Marat
Marussia
Clochard
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Self (uncredited)
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Self
Fan Club
Damien
The Chess Game
Max
La Squale
Le joker
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
(voice)
Happy New Year London
Gerrard Ames
Le monde à l'envers
Yann Kerebel
Deep in the Woods
Stephane
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Self
The End
(voice)
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Doctor de Chomo
My Intelligent Comedy
Allen
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Nipple Whisperer
Maurice Sanders
The Boy Who Owns the World
Kasimir
The Lonely
The Green Eyes
Atlantika
Demons to Diamonds
The prisoner
Language Does Not Lie
Narrator (voice)
Kazarken: As We Dig
Chiron, le centaure
Austerlitz
Jacques Austerlitz
Silent Streams
Miserable Miracle
Narrator (French)
Figurant
Human Flowers of Flesh
Galoup
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Monsieur Loyal
Dante's Divine Comedy
Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Makunaíma XXI
Biette
Self
Gray House
Self
X14
Luminal
Ryu
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
(voice)
All Effort of Men
Narrator (voice)
Aymeline
Franco Fontane
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Scaramouche
Que demande le peuple
Body of Crime
Bacon-Freud, face à face
Voix-off
L'Ombre sur la plage
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
The ogre
Les Williams
Le discours
Le politicien
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Narrateur
The Blue Star
Le Narrateur
Les Grandes Marées
Marc
Paris Ficelle
Joe
Jiminy
Otto Hoffmann
Fracas
Hymn to Merde
Merde
Tired of Being Handsome
Dark Forests
Voice
Erratic Blocks
Lucien Le Saint
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Self
Waster
Waster
Şoför
The Driver
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
reader
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Self - Narrator (voice)
Two Night Owls in Paris
Le bouquiniste
Who the Fuck Are You
Psychiatrist
Ogaden
Thunder Voice
Prophet