
Acting
Philippe Leroy
Born — Died
1930-10-15 — 2024-06-01
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
83 titles
Philippe Leroy, full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu was a French film actor. He appeared in over 150 films since 1960. Leroy lived mostly in Italy since the 1960s and worked extensively in Italian cinema, as well as in his native country. He was sometimes credited under his full name. He died, aged 93, in Rome on 1st June 2024 His daughter is the actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu.
Known for
6.3Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Father Matteo
2000
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Midi trente
1972
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
8.1Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.
Inspector Coliandro
2006
9.1Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures
2018
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
6.2An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Hotel Gagarin
2018
6.6The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late.
Who Will Save The Roses?
2017
2000s · 6 titles
6.4Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
St. Peter
2005
5.3The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.
Ultimate Heist
2009
4.6An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
The Mother of Tears
2007
6.6On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.
Vajont
2001
4.3A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
La rabbia
2008
NRShort documentary on the 1972 Italo-crime classic Caliber 9
Caliber 9: Documentary
2004
1990s · 7 titles
7.1A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Nikita
1990
5.9After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
In Love and War
1996
4.1Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization.
Lie Down with Lions
1994
6.0After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
The Return of Casanova
1992
6.8A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
The Austrian
1990
4.6Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, sur le point de quitter une bonne maison d'édition pour écrire un sitcom pour la télévision, que sa femme est sur le point d'accoucher et de surcroît quand les déménageurs sont des Roumains qui travaillent au noir et qu'ils n'ont pas vraiment le sens de la ponctualité...
Le Déménagement
1997
5.0The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
Mario and the Magician
1994
1980s · 7 titles
5.3What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of obsession in a devious relationship between the wife of a German diplomat and her husband.
The Berlin Affair
1985
5.9Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
4.5In the late thirties of Italy, In the background of peaceful village landscapes, Guido requires unquestioning obedience to his will in his house. Alberto dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care.
The Women of Quiet Country
1980
5.7The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage
Deux
1989
6.5This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
Don Bosco
1988
5.5The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
1987
6.9Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
State buoni se potete
1983
1970s · 16 titles
6.7A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
The Night Porter
1974
6.0Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
The Cat
1977
6.3Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Soldier of Fortune
1976
6.0A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
Roma bene
1971
7.5Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Caliber 9
1972
6.4Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
A Man Called Blade
1977
5.7The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
Beyond Good and Evil
1977
5.7Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
1972
5.9Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
1971
5.6A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.
Mr. Superinvisible
1970
5.8A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.
Libera, My Love
1975
6.2At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
Courage fuyons
1979
3.6The entrepreneur Franco, a wealthy man, finds himself going through a period of profound crisis with his wife Laura and things get complicated when he meets his young and beautiful daughter-in-law, Flora. Passion sparks between the two but the girl's husband certainly doesn't sit idle, starting a relationship with her sister-in-law. Each member of the family ends up being involved in affairs and betrayals, with unpredictable consequences.
Intimate Relations
1975
6.0A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Hector the Mighty
1972
4.0In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. . .
La svergognata
1974
5.2Angela and Marco are a new brother and sister, they live in a large country house outside the rest of the world, united by an at least ambiguous relationship, which goes far beyond fraternal affection.
That Strange Desire to Love
1977
1960s · 22 titles
8.2Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.
Le Trou
1960
5.6A man known only as 'Yankee' rides into a dying, desolate frontier New Mexico town completely controlled by 'The Grand Cougar', setting off a chain of events where dominance is the prize.
Yankee
1966
6.9Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
55 Days at Peking
1963
5.3A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
The Libertine
1968
6.7Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.
The Laughing Woman
1969
6.9A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
The Married Woman
1964
6.1Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964
6.1Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
1966
6.8After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
Seven Golden Men
1965
6.4Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
The Shortest Day
1963
6.0After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
7.4Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
Careless
1962
6.5An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
Spotlight on a Murderer
1961
6.8While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
The Possessed
1965
3.3Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde artist who paints nude girls and houses at her loft. When Michel's gorgeous sister shows up from out of town, both Paul and Sand fall for her.
The Fourth Sex
1962
6.0A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.
The Wild Eye
1967
5.1The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
Leoni al sole
1961
8.0A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.
Lo scandalo
1966
7.0Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.
Che notte, ragazzi!
1966
7.2When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
Unknown Woman
1969
3.5Having survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons, Jean, his wife Anna and Patrick, lives in a trailer by the sea.
Behold Man - The Survivors
1969
5.5After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he suspects may have had a role in the heist.
Law of Men
1962
Series credits
6.3Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Father Matteo
2000
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Midi trente
1972
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006
7.1The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
8.1Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.
Inspector Coliandro
2006
9.1Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures
2018
7.2In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.
Sandokan
1976
6.2Bob and Joe are two prisoners locked up in the Latin American maximum security prison of Santa Consuelo. The two manage to escape during an attack by the revolutionaries commanded by Napoleon Duarte and pretend to be friars, taking refuge in the mission of San Rolando. In the mission, in which monks and Indians live in harmony, the two escapees become Father Orso and Father Zaccaria and win the affection of all.
We Are Angels
1997
6.4Treasure Island in Outer Space is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson. It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).
Treasure Island in Outer Space
1987
7.0As a gendarmerie chief warrant officer, Isabelle Florent and her team are faced with the most diverse investigations. As a mother, she tries to protect and educate her son, Nicolas.
A Woman of Honor
1997
6.9An ordinary man is called upon by God to do the impossible in this lovingly told production of the Old Testament story. When the Pharaoh of Egypt begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Moses leads them to freedom.
Moses
1996
8.0Miniseries about the early life of Garibaldi.
Il giovane Garibaldi
1974
8.4Miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
1971
7.0Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Racconti fantastici
1979
6.0No synopsis available yet.
T.I.R.
1984
NRThe life of Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own.
St. Peter
2005
Family drama that spans from the end of WWII to the eighties.
...e la vita continua
1984
8.5A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.
Orient Express
1979
10.0A miniseries in three parts about the theft of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in 1911.
Il furto della gioconda
1978
No synopsis available yet.
El Obispo Leproso
1990
NRA Telepiemonte journalist, Giulio Guala, is awakened one morning by a phone call from a "deep throat" warning him to rush to the airport for the arrival of Celeste Cucchi, a famous pasta industrialist.
La bambina dalle mani sporche
2005
1975 mini series
Diagnosi
1975
NRTrue story of Don Carlo Gnocchi, a priest who manages in postwar Italy, upon his return from the Russian front where he participated as military chaplain for the Alpini, to build a charity that is still active today and bears his name. Two episodes recount his life from the time he became spiritual director of the Gonzaga Institute in Milan at age 34 until his death in 1956. The miniseries is based on the biography written by Giorgio Rumi and Edoardo Bressan, Don Carlo Gnocchi, life and works of a great entrepreneur of charity, Mondadori, 2002.
Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi
2004
