Actor
Philippe Clay
Biography

Philippe Clay, born Philippe Mathevet, (March 7, 1927 – December 13, 2007) was a French mime artist, singer and actor. He was known for his tall and slim silhouette (he was 1,90 m tall) and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey. He interpreted “La Complainte des Apaches” for the TV series Les Brigades du Tigre, written by Henri Djian a ...

Known For
Acting
2022 -- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Dombey and Son | Jérémie
2002 -- 1974, une partie de campagne | Self
2001 -- Des croix sur la mer | Napoléon
1999 -- Tuvalu | Karl
1999 -- Alexina's House | Raffin
1999 -- The Freelancers | Le Chatelain
1998 -- Lautrec | Auguste Renoir
1998 -- Marceeel!!! |
1995 -- Krim | Eugène
1993 -- Die Wildnis | Peasant
1993 -- Le gourou occidental |
1985 -- L'Herbe rouge | Mr. Perle
1983 -- A Good Little Devil | Le Juge
1983 -- Salut la puce | Rigodo-Cartecolin, un marionnettiste
1982 -- Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ | Herald of the arena
1981 -- Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx | L'ébéniste
1974 -- Shanks | Mr. Barton
1974 -- The Three Musketeers | Richelieu
1973 -- The Insolent | Dargnac
1972 -- Les joyeux lurons | L'abbé Larivière
1972 -- Not Dumb, the Bird | Jack Bromfield
1971 -- Armiamoci e partite! | generale McMaster
1970 -- Pour un sourire | Nicolas
1967 -- The Hotheads | Prêcheur
1966 -- Sale temps pour les mouches | Pierre Mazaud, aka 'Félix'
1965 -- Ivory Coast Adventure | Renaud Lefranc
1962 -- Musketeers of the Sea | Gosselin
1961 -- In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles! | Jean-Louis Preminger (voice)
1960 -- Lay Off Blondes | L'inspecteur Al Wheeler
1960 -- Take Me As I Am | Carlo
1959 -- The Night of the Hunted | Taretta
1959 -- The Bureaucrats | Letondu
1959 -- The Road to Shame | Tom
1959 -- Drôles de phénomènes | The Butler Barns
1958 -- Bell, Book and Candle | French Singer at the Zodiac Club
1958 -- Toto in Paris | il finto maggiordomo
1958 -- En bordée |
1957 -- Nathalie | Adolphe Faisant
1957 -- It Happened on the 36 Candles | Self (uncredited)
1956 -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou
1956 -- Life is beautiful | le pasteur
1954 -- French Cancan | Casimir le Serpentin
1952 -- Le crime du Bouif |
1950 -- Rome Express |
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