Name
Dominique Pinon
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1955-03-04 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Biography
After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix.
Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others.
His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France.
Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander.
He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.
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- 2001 Amélie as Joseph
- 1991 Delicatessen as Louison
- 1995 The City of Lost Children as The Diver / The Clones
- 2022 A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon as Le détective privé
- 2004 A Very Long Engagement as Sylvain
- 1989 The French Revolution as Drouet
- 1985 La Baston as Marcel Noblet
- 2023 Amélie: The Real Story as (archive footage)
- 2001 Beautiful Memories as Robert
- 1997 Alien Resurrection as Vriess
- 1982 Shot Pattern as Daniel Verlot
- 2003 Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure as Fredy Mazas
- 2008 The Oxford Murders as Frank
- 1983 Car Cemetery as Ybar
- 1983 Ghost Dance as Salesman/Guide
- 1999 Quasimodo d'el Paris as Trouillefou
- 2009 Micmacs as Fracasse
- 1982 Noisy Neighbours as Musician
- 2004 Darkhunters as Charlie Jackson
- 2004 Hellbreeder as Detective Weiss
- 1988 Le Rêve du Phenix
- 2022 Hamlet Within
- 2008 Dante 01 as César
- 2007 Crossed Tracks as Pierre Laclos / Louis
- 2003 At Home with the Rozes as le lieutenant
- 1984 Mint Tea as Roger
- 2018 White Fang as Beauty Smith (voice)
- 2021 Emma Bovary as Homais
- 1992 Août as Eugène Blouzette
- 2011 Madame Sans Gêne as Fouché
- 2009 Humans as Gildas
- 1990 Things I Like, Things I Don't Like as Man
- 2025 She Loved Blossoms More as Logo
- 2019 Anna as Monk Dominic
- 1999 Like a Fish Out of Water as Melvin
- 2007 Moon in a Bottle as Pascal Rossignol
- 2009 Murphy's Law as Rudy
- 2010 What War May Bring as Maurice Lemoine
- 2005 Camping à la ferme as Rodolphe Peretti
- 1988 The Legend of the Holy Drinker as Wojtech
- 2022 Bigbug as Igor
- 1986 Betty Blue as Le dealer
- 2011 Holidays by the Sea as Homme caravane
- 2007 Midsummer Madness as Toni
- 1982 La Chanson du mal-aimé as Albert de Kostrowitzky
- 2014 OXI, an Act of Resistance as Investigator
- 2014 Brèves de comptoir as Taxi 2
- 2010 Colère as Mougin, le sorcier
- 2009 An Organization of Dreams as Inspector
- 2009 Morris: A Life with Bells On as Jean Baptiste
- 2010 Mumu as Père de Roger
- 1997 Mordbüro as Eugène
- 2003 Parts of the Family as Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
- 1986 Rückfahrt in den Tod as Fred
- 1986 Follow My Gaze as Frédéric
- 1982 Enigma as Madman (uncredited)
- 1985 The Telephone Always Rings Twice as Monsieur Pichon
- 2023 Apaches: Gang of Paris as Gueule de Bois
- 2004 Ne quittez pas ! as Le clochard
- 2000 Sabotage!! as Armani
- 2008 The Clown
- 2005 Ze Film as Le SDF
- 2013 The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Two Clouds
- 1993 Loonies at Large as Angel
- 1984 Dream One as Monkey
- 2006 When Evil Calls as Detective Ringwald
- 1990 1871 as Napoléon III
- 1985 Zina as Pierre
- 1988 Frantic as Wino
- Soon Gilles et Louise
- 2014 My Old Lady as Monsieur Lefebvre
- 1982 The Return of Martin Guerre as Antoine
- 1997 Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen as Adrien
- 2000 Highway Melody as Jacky Carpe
- 1991 Les arcandiers as Bruno
- 2021 Dernière Station as Le pompiste
- 2004 Le bon, la brute et les zombies as Petit cowboy
- 2015 Soulless 2 as Bernard
- 1986 Cent francs l'amour as Tom
- 2015 A Love You as Serge
- 2015 The Price of Desire as Fernand Leger
- 2001 Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! as P'tit gars
- 2012 The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm as L'inspecteur Lamentin
- 2002 Dead or Alive as The Butcher
- 2021 Pierre & Jeanne as Le notaire
- 1981 Diva as Le curé
- 1996 A Saturday on Earth as Le brigadier Morel
- 2010 Specky Four-Eyes as Narrator
- 2010 Un pied dans le crime
- 1993 My Name is Victor as Bernard
- 2016 Max & Leon as Michel
- 2005 Your Name is Justine as Oncle Goran
- 1994 KO Kid as K.O Kid
- 1983 If I Were 1000 Years Old
- 2011 Crédit pour tous as Gobert
- 1987 Devil's Paradise as Gato
- 2008 Fin de partie as Hamm
- 2017 La DorMeuse Duval as Basile Matrin
- 2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as His Excellency's Fop
- 2017 Vive la crise ! as Noël
- 2017 Somewhere Beautiful as Magazine Editor
- 1991 25 décembre 58, 10h36 as Dominique
- 2017 Based on a True Story as Raymond
- 1985 Going and Coming Back as Villager
- 2019 Magnetick Pathways as Raymond Vachs
- 2006 Dikkenek as Stef
- 2005 L'Hiver sous la table as Dragomir
- 2000 The Pilot as Pilot
- 2012 La Guerre du Royal Palace as Colonel Otto Strudel
- 2017 Two Snails Set Off as (voice)
- 1988 The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau as Albert
- 2018 Cyrano, My Love as Lucien
- 1983 The Moon in the Gutter as Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother
- 2018 O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
- 1986 Sauve-toi, Lola as Jean-Pierre
- 2019 Spread Your Wings as Pichon
- 2019 Jo as L'Inspecteur Ducros
- 2019 I Love My Mum as French Restaurant Manager
- 1980 La Découverte as The young painter
- 2019 Dark Stories to Survive the Night as Jean Luc
- 2003 Entrusted as Henri Lafont
- 2021 A Perfect Enemy as Jean Rosen
- 2013 Serial Teachers as L'inspecteur d'académie
- 1996 La Gotera as 'Pastel de Fer'
- 2008 A Day at the Museum as Simon
- 2007 L'Acte inconnu
- Soon Coffeehouse Mysteries as Waiter
- 1982 Merlin ou le cours de l'or as Le fils
- 2024 At the End of the Day as Le médecin
- 2024 Memoir of a Snail as Percy Pudel (voice)
- 2026 Violette
- 2005 Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2026 You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? as Edgar
- 2025 Jean Valjean as Boîte à Mots
- Soon A Door to the Woods
- 2026 Cassandre - Un homme parfait as Jean-Paul Marchand
- 2026 Cassandre - Les captives as Jean-Paul Marchand
- 2026 Cassandre - Les inconnus du Sapenay as Jean-Paul Marchand
- 2026 Cassandre - Ni vu, ni connu as Jean-Paul Marchand
- 2026 Cassandre - Un ciel de plomb as Jean-Paul Marchand
- 1990 Alberto Express as Le conducteur de la locomotive
- Soon Judgement
- 2019 Dark Stories ( 1 episode ) as Jean-Luc Barrouf
- 2003 Nachtschicht ( 1 episode ) as Emile Gaspard
- 2001 Quelle Aventure ! ( 1 episode ) as 'La Buse'
- 2012 Metal Hurlant Chronicles ( 3 episodes ) as Stanley Summers
- 2014 Outlander ( 7 episodes ) as Master Raymond
- 2001 Caméra Café ( 0 episode ) as Jean-Pierre
- 2022 The Island of Thirty Coffins ( 6 episodes ) as Horacio
- 2023 The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon ( 2 episodes ) as Antoine
- 2001 Quelle Aventure ! ( 1 episode ) as Frère Godefroy
- 2009 The Little Murders of Agatha Christie ( 1 episode ) as Hubert Petitpont
- 2015 Cassandre ( 39 episodes ) as Jean-Pierre Marchand
- 1985 Via Mala ( 3 episodes ) as Niklaus Lauretz
- 2006 Sable noir ( 1 episode ) as Axel
- 2022 Good People ( 6 episodes ) as Roger
- 2013 Murders in... ( 1 episode ) as Le Kid
