Philippe Laudenbach, great actor of cinema, television and theater, has just passed away at the age of 88.
He filmed for Truffaut, Lelouch, Sautet… The actor Philippe Laudenbach, great supporting role and familiar face of the big and small screen, has just passed away at the age of 88, announced the director and journalist Gilles Botineau on X this Tuesday.
The career of this actor, born in 1936 in Bourg-la-Reine, began in the 1960s and spanned seven decades. Philippe Laudenbach, nephew of the actor Pierre Fresnay, has shown his elegant figure in more than sixty films and as many series and TV films.
Alain Resnais gave him his first role in the cinema in 1962 in Muriel ou le temps d’un retour, then made him appear twice, in My uncle from America, and in Life is a novel in 1983. We then meet him in Can’t wait for Sunday by François Truffaut, in A few days with me by Claude Sautet, in 37°2 le matin, by Jean-Jacques Beineix. More recently, we saw him in Of Men and Gods, and The Ransom of Glory by Xavier Beauvois.
Voice actor
Philippe Laudenbach also appears in films with a lighter register, such as L’Opération Corned Beef by Jean-Marie Poiré, Tanguy, by Etienne Chatiliez, People by Fabien Onteniente or Marie-Francine by Valérie Lemercier.
Very present on the small screen, he plays in numerous series, from Maguy, to Joséphine, ange guardian, via Louis la Brocante, Avocats et associés, PJ, Candice Renoir or Braquo and Scènes deménage.
Younger people also know his beautiful deep voice because he has lent himself to dubbing films (Dogville, Vatel, Grace de Monaco) but also animated films. He is the narrator of Minions in 2015 and the devil in the animated feature film by his nephew, Sébastien Laudenbach, The Girl Without Hands.
His last appearance on screen dates back to 2020, in De Gaulle, with Lambert Wilson.
