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Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. A loner, Hippolyte Girardot set out to be an illustrator. He dreamt of working as production designer on the film set and tempted his chance at the entrance exam to the Arts Déco. While there, he was offered the project of a series of shorts working with a group of adolescents from the suburbs in a workshop setting. Even if he made his first appearance on the silver screen as the son of actor Claude Rich in "John's Wife" by Yannick Bellon, who was a friend of his mother's, he still had no intention of becoming an actor and continued to take on the various jobs proposed. Hippolyte Girardot developed a taste for acting while filming "The Destiny of Juliette" (1983) by Aline Issermann, and again with the same director for "L'Amant magnifique". He got his first nods from the profession when he was nominated for Most Promising Young Actor in 1985 for "Le Bon Plaisir", continuing his career with Godard ("First Name: Carmen") and other A film projects, notably in "Fort Saganne" and "Jean de Florette II" in which he plays a school teacher in love with Emmanuelle Beart. His film acclaim arrived in 1990 with "A World Without Pity", a disenchanted observation of society by Eric Rochant; his character Hippo resonated with an entire generation: ironically aimless yet charming. The following year, Girardot landed the lead role playing a photographer taken hostage in Lebanon in "Out of Life" by Maroun Bagdadi. He incarnated the mysterious seducer ("After Love", "The Scent of Yvonne"), but more often found himself performing in comedies: completely crazy in "Barjo" and unemployed in "Long Live the Republic" (1997) by close collaborator, Eric Rochant. After working for the television for a few years, his return to film was acclaimed in "Rashevski's Tango" in 2003. Joining the Desplechin film universe, Hippolyte Girardot gave notable performances as a business man in "Playing 'In the Company of Men'", a crooked lawyer involved in drugs in "Kings and Queen" (2004) and Anne Consigny's husband in "A Christmas Tale". Other renowned directors with whom he has collaborated include Pascal Bonitzer and Pascale Ferran ("Lady Chatterley"), and in 2006, he juggled a formidable acting career, appearing in no less than six films. After his role as a shaddy doctor in "Crime Is Our Business", his roles began to become more and more original: the alter ego of Jerome Clement in "Later" by Amos Gitai and Nanni Moretti's partner in "Quiet Chaos". He had a spell at co-directing with Nobuhiro Suwa for the film "Yuki & Nina", a touchy look at childhood that was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 2009. Continuing to accept roles in films with a political message, he will appear in "Les Mains en l'air", which denounces Italian fascism in the year 2067, and take the lead in the dark comedy "Dernier étage gauche gauche" in which he plays a bailiff taken hostage in a housing projects building, both films to be released in 2010.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
November 11th, 2026 | Badinter | François Mitterand | TBD | |
November 26th, 2025 | Laghat - Un sogno impossibile | TBD | 8.1 | |
October 15th, 2025 | Two Pianos | Max | 5 | |
September 5th, 2025 | Elisa | Director | 6.3 | |
April 3rd, 2024 | Just a Couple of Days | Laurent | 6.1 | |
January 17th, 2024 | Le Voyage en pyjama | Vladimir Desrosiers | 4.4 | |
February 15th, 2023 | The Astronaut | Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace | 7.1 | |
January 13th, 2023 | Babyphone | Le Maire | 6.5 | |
October 21st, 2021 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Chou-fleur | 7 | |
September 13th, 2021 | Les Héritiers | Vaillant | 5.7 | |
March 26th, 2021 | That's Fine | Paul | 4.8 | |
December 13th, 2020 | The Black Book | (voice) | 8 | |
September 9th, 2020 | Mama Weed | Philippe | 5.9 | |
January 15th, 2020 | An Irrepressible Woman | Léon Blum | 5.3 | |
January 17th, 2018 | On the Sly | Yves, le patron du club | 5.5 | |
October 12th, 2017 | Where I've Never Lived | Benoît | 5.7 | |
September 19th, 2017 | Le Viol | Président cour d’assises | 6.2 | |
May 17th, 2017 | Ismael's Ghosts | Zwy | 5.5 | |
May 24th, 2016 | La face | Serge Vauban | 5.8 | |
December 11th, 2015 | The Girl King | Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut | 6.2 | |
December 17th, 2014 | Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis | Le Commissaire | 4.5 | |
November 26th, 2014 | To Life | Henri | 5.2 | |
June 4th, 2014 | Bird People | Vengers | 5.9 | |
March 26th, 2014 | Life of Riley | Colin | 5.2 | |
November 26th, 2013 | La rupture | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 6 | |
August 24th, 2013 | Kidon | Monsieur Garnier | 5 | |
August 23rd, 2013 | L'Aurore boréale | Le père | TBD | |
June 4th, 2013 | Des gens qui passent | Grabely | TBD | |
November 14th, 2012 | Capital | Raphaël Sieg | 6.1 | |
September 17th, 2012 | Haute Cuisine | David Azoulay | 6.2 | |
September 1st, 2012 | You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet | Dulac | 6.6 | |
August 8th, 2012 | An Open Heart | Marc | 5.3 | |
March 4th, 2012 | La Chartreuse de Parme | Count Mosca | 6.9 | |
October 25th, 2011 | The Robin Hoods of the Poor | le commandant Viennot | 6.4 | |
June 23rd, 2011 | Sleeping Sickness | Gaspard Signac | 6.4 | |
May 18th, 2011 | The Conquest | Claude Guéant | 5.9 | |
April 27th, 2011 | The Edge | Sam | 5.9 | |
November 15th, 2010 | Top Floor Left Wing | François Etcheveria | 5.8 | |
July 6th, 2010 | Hands in the Air | Rodolphe | 5.9 | |
March 10th, 2010 | Lies | Jean-Louis Richepois | TBD | |
November 27th, 2009 | Yuki & Nina | Frédéric | 6.7 | |
July 8th, 2009 | Park Benches | Executive # 1 | 5.5 | |
January 28th, 2009 | Spy(ies) | Simon | 5.5 | |
October 27th, 2008 | Resolution 819 | Lherbier | 6.2 | |
October 2nd, 2008 | Crime Is Our Business | le docteur François Lagarde | 5.9 | |
May 21st, 2008 | A Christmas Tale | Claude Dédalus | 6.8 | |
April 16th, 2008 | Off and Running | L'homme à la chemise blanche | 5.4 | |
February 8th, 2008 | Quiet Chaos | Jean Claude | 6.5 | |
January 23rd, 2008 | Où avais-je la tête ? | Paul-Vincent | 2 | |
January 21st, 2008 | L'Affaire Ben Barka | Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju | 1 | |
January 1st, 2008 | One Day You'll Understand | Victor | 5.8 | |
September 19th, 2007 | The Dinner Guest | Pontignac | 5.5 | |
May 17th, 2007 | Flight of the Red Balloon | Marc | 6.2 | |
March 14th, 2007 | My Place in the Sun | François | 5 | |
January 31st, 2007 | Parallel Parking | Hervé | 7 | |
January 1st, 2007 | Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World | (voice) | 6 | |
November 29th, 2006 | Made in Paris | Antoine Carré | 5.2 | |
November 1st, 2006 | Lady Chatterley | Clifford | 6.2 | |
October 4th, 2006 | Premonition | Marc Bénesteau | 6.1 | |
June 28th, 2006 | Un an | Félix | 7 | |
June 21st, 2006 | Paris Je T'aime | Le père (Place des Victoires) | 6.8 | |
May 5th, 2006 | Vivre c'est mieux que mourir | Callaghan | 6 | |
February 8th, 2006 | Incontrôlable | Roger | 4 | |
November 23rd, 2005 | Adèle et Kamel | Antoine | 8 | |
June 19th, 2005 | House of 9 | Francis | 5 | |
June 9th, 2005 | The Moustache | Bruno | 6.1 | |
April 27th, 2005 | Trois Couples en quête d'orages | Jean-Xavier | 5.6 | |
February 15th, 2005 | 2018 Der Ölcrash | Paul | 5 | |
December 22nd, 2004 | Kings & Queen | Maître Marc Mamanne | 6.9 | |
December 15th, 2004 | Si j'étais elle | Alex | 4.9 | |
June 18th, 2004 | Nos amis les flics | Fatouche | 5 | |
May 18th, 2004 | Modigliani | Maurice Utrillo | 7 | |
September 3rd, 2003 | The Rashevski Tango | Antoine | 5.3 | |
June 23rd, 2003 | Virus au paradis | Le ministre de la Santé | 4.6 | |
May 15th, 2003 | Playing 'In the Company of Men' | Willian De Lille | 7.3 | |
April 11th, 2003 | Drôle de genre | Camille Bazin | 5.3 | |
November 9th, 2001 | Jump Tomorrow | Gérard | 6.3 | |
May 14th, 2001 | L'Oiseau rare | Marc | 5.7 | |
December 15th, 1999 | Jésus | Judas | 9.5 | |
November 5th, 1997 | Long Live the Republic | Henri | 4.5 | |
April 23rd, 1997 | The Target | Stan | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 1997 | I Got a Woman | L'acteur | TBD | |
August 21st, 1996 | 1914 the Glorious Summer | Pierre Mercadier | 4.8 | |
May 18th, 1994 | The Patriots | Daniel | 6.6 | |
March 24th, 1994 | The Perfume of Yvonne | Victor Chmara | 5.6 | |
February 2nd, 1994 | When I Was 5, I Killed Myself | Dr. Edouard Valmont | 8.2 | |
May 26th, 1993 | Toxic Affair | Georges | 4.8 | |
May 26th, 1992 | The Girl in the Air | Philippe | 6.6 | |
May 12th, 1992 | Barjo | Barjo | 4.9 | |
April 15th, 1992 | Love After Love | Tom | 5.5 | |
May 15th, 1991 | Out of Life | Patrick Perrault | 5.9 | |
November 22nd, 1989 | Love Without Pity | Hippo | 7.1 | |
January 2nd, 1988 | Paradise Calling | Mark | 3.5 | |
November 19th, 1986 | Manon of the Spring | Bernard Olivier, teacher | 7.6 | |
November 6th, 1986 | Descent Into Hell | Philippe Devignat | 4.8 | |
September 17th, 1986 | Un moment d'inattention | Laurent | 7 | |
June 11th, 1986 | L'amant magnifique | Vincent | 4.8 | |
April 23rd, 1986 | Follow My Gaze | Le reporter en Afrique | 6.2 | |
November 20th, 1985 | L'Amour ou presque | Luc | 8 | |
January 2nd, 1985 | Comme les doigts de la main | The narrator | 6.2 | |
January 1st, 1985 | French Lovers | TBD | 5 | |
May 11th, 1984 | Fort Saganne | Courette | 6 | |
January 18th, 1984 | Le Bon Plaisir | Pierre | 5.8 | |
December 1st, 1983 | First Name: Carmen | Fred | 6 | |
September 21st, 1983 | Le Destin de Juliette | Pierre | 7 | |
January 1st, 1982 | Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes | Robinson | 9 | |
October 7th, 1981 | L'Amour nu | Hervé | 5 | |
December 3rd, 1980 | Inspector Blunder | Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
March 30th, 1974 | La femme de Jean | Rémi | 7 | |
TBD | The Prominents | Leon Blum | TBD | |
TBD | It Will Happen Tonight | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | Le Joueur | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | Les voeux | TBD | TBD |