Philippe Clévenot
Philippe Clévenot compte parmi les plus grands acteurs d’une génération qui, dans les années 1960-1970, se lançait dans l’aventure des créations collectives et entendait toucher un nouveau public, populaire, à l’instar de Jean Vilar ou d’Ariane Mnouchkine. De 1962 à 1965, il suit les cours du Centre dramatique de l'Est alors sous la direction d'Hubert Gignoux, Paul Lefèvre et Claude Petitpierre. Parallèlement, il continue l'étude de l'orgue, du clavecin et du piano. Après les deux années de son service militaire (1965-1967) pendant lesquelles il apprend l'allemand, il devient membre de la maison de la Culture deBourges, dirigée par Gabriel Monnet. En 1971, il participe aux débuts du Théâtre de l'Espérance avec Jean Jourdheuil etJean-Pierre Vincent, puis, en 1976, rejoint l’école du TNS (l'école supérieure d’art dramatique de Strasbourg) que dirige le même Jean-Pierre Vincent. De 1985 à 1987, il est pensionnaire à la Comédie-Française. Philippe Clévenot joue aussi bien le répertoire classique que le théâtre contemporain. Ainsi le voit-on dans Le Misanthropede Molière ou Macbeth de Shakespeare (deux mises en scène de Jean-Pierre Vincent) ; dans Le Prince de Hombourg deKleist (mise en scène de Matthias Langhoff), La Cruche cassée du même Kleist (mise en scène de Bernard Sobel) ; dansL'École des femmes de Molière (mise en scène de Bernard Sobel), Le Neveu de Rameau de Diderot (mise en scène de Jean-Marie Simon), dans Artaud Mômo ou la conférence du Vieux Colombier et Histoire vécue d'Artaud Mômo d'Antonin Artaud, où il interprète l'auteur, dans Un barrage contre le Pacifique de Marguerite Duras ou encore Dans la jungle des villesde Brecht (mise en scène de Stéphane Braunschweig), dans la Vie de l’égoïste Fätzer, du même Brecht (sous la direction de Bernard Sobel), dans Rumeur à Wall Street de Bernard Chatellier, d’après le Bartleby de Melville (mise en scène deBérangère Bonvoisin), ou bien Pionniers à Ingolstadt de Marieluise Fleisser. En tant que metteur en scène, on lui doit notamment Anna Christie d’Eugene O'Neill, à Genève, en 2000 — spectacle qui est repris au Théâtre Gérard Philipe, à Villeurbanne, en 2001. Par ailleurs, il a également écrit Celle qui ment, d'après la célèbre mystique italienne Angèle de Foligno. Son premier rôle au cinéma lui est offert par René Allio en 1970, dans Les Camisards. Il travaille ensuite avec de nombreux cinéastes, dont Bertrand Blier, Patrice Leconte ou encore Jean-Jacques Beineix. L’un de ses derniers films au cinéma estDisparus (1998), premier long métrage historique et politique d'un jeune réalisateur, Gilles Bourdos. Ayant toujours partagé son temps entre Paris et la Normandie, avec sa compagne la comédienne Bérangère Bonvoisin, Philippe Clévenot meurt à l’âge de cinquante-neuf ans, le 18 octobre 2001, des suites d’une longue maladie. Il repose au cimetière de Villerville.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.74 |
Birthday | 1942-09-10 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | Philippe Clevennot, |
1990
The Hairdresser's Husband
6.9/202
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a youn...
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The Hairdresser's Husband
1985
Blanche and Marie
5.4/12
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, V...
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Blanche and Marie
1979
The Making of West Indies
0/0
Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as ba...
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The Making of West Indies
1972
The French Calvinists
6/5
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed...
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The French Calvinists
1981
Deep Water
6/37
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affair...
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Deep Water
1982
La Chanson du mal-aimé
5.5/1
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982
The Sorceress
2/1
An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
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The Sorceress
1997
Mordbüro
0/0
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of crim...
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Mordbüro
1985
Diesel
4.7/6
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to t...
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Diesel
1990
Eden miseria
0/0
Danuta Zarasik plays Isabelle Eberhardt in this biographical drama. At the turn of the 20th century, Isabelle fell in love with the African desert, do...
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Eden miseria
1992
Just a Game
0/0
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather...
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Just a Game
1985
The Mystery of Alexina
4.4/8
In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is...
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The Mystery of Alexina
1989
Kiss Me
5/4
The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and t...
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Kiss Me
1990
I Have You Under My Skin
1/1
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn...
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I Have You Under My Skin
1998
Place Vendôme
6.2/40
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...
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Place Vendôme
1975
The Story of Paul
4.2/4
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
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The Story of Paul
1993
The Place of Another
5.7/3
Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies, Thom...
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The Place of Another
1976
The Conquistadores
0/0
A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they...
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The Conquistadores
2001
Malraux, tu m'étonnes!
0/0
Feature film about the life of André Malraux. While still a teenager, Malraux embarks on an initiatory journey in search of the artistic and literary...
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Malraux, tu m'étonnes!
1990
The Bathymetric Muses
4/1
A group of near-naked women dance and leap about on a beach.
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The Bathymetric Muses
1974
Céline and Julie Go Boating
6.7/128
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a hau...
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
1988
Camille Claudel
6.8/133
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...
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Camille Claudel
1986
The Sidewalks of Saturn
5/2
Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. T...
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The Sidewalks of Saturn
1992
Rhesus-Romeo
0/0
When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees witho...
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Rhesus-Romeo
1993
Urgence d'aimer
4/2
Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to don...
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Urgence d'aimer
1983
The Eyes of the Birds
0/0
A Red Cross inspection team visits a prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates.
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The Eyes of the Birds
1972
The Monk
5.9/8
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appea...
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The Monk
1973
Marriage a la Mode
6.8/4
The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him...
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Marriage a la Mode
1989
Les Deux Fragonard
4/2
The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and...
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Les Deux Fragonard
1987
Elvire Jouvet 40
8/2
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Elvire Jouvet 40
1980
Cocktail Molotov
5.8/13
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at ho...
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Cocktail Molotov
1991
Thank You, Life
6.31/50
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new frien...
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Thank You, Life
1979
West Indies
5.8/10
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. Th...
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West Indies
1974
Escapade
4.5/3
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Escapade
1988
Roselyne and the Lions
5.8/16
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he l...
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