“An actor always far from rhinestones and glitter and who never put himself forward”… This is how his own son describes Philippe Laudenbach, this discreet French actor who died on Tuesday April 23, 2024, we learned in a tweet posted by director and journalist Gilles Botineau.
Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, this native of Bourg-la-Reine (Hauts-de-Seine) made his theater debut in the 1960s, participating in numerous plays directed by Yves Gasc, Robert Hossein or Laurent Terzieff.
Employed by great directors
He very quickly moved to the cinema, playing in Muriel or the time for a returnby Alain Resnais (1962), then was a widely used supporting role in the 1980s, notably with renowned directors such as Claude Sautet, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Jacques Beineix etc.
We saw it, more recently, in men and godsby Xavier Beauvois (2010) or Mary Francine, by Valérie Lemercier (2017). His last appearance in the cinema dates back to 2020, for the film De Gaullewith Lambert Wilson.
From TV series to dubbing
A television man, Philippe Laudenbach had participated in numerous series, including Joséphine, guardian angel, Louis the Brocante, Candice Renoir, Research section Or Domestic scenes. He had also lent his voice to several plays and radio serials, to documentaries and had ensured the dubbing of films such as Minions And The speech of a king.
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This man “to whom life had not given any gifts” had, after fighting several cancers, “weakened day by day”, his son testified. from France 3. “He chose to stop his career at the time of Covid… It’s a shame, he wasn’t able to take advantage of it as he would have liked.”