Biography
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi. He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni. In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo, and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking. Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Angloph...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le premier venu
2025
as André

Maudits
2025
as Jacques
In the eighth month of her pregnancy, which she is struggling to fully accept, Lucile discovers that her paternal grandmother is not dead, as she had ...

Lapin
2024

Christopher Reeve, Superman Forever
2024
as Self - Narrator
A French documentary on Superman actor Christopher Reeve as told by his French voice dubbing actor, Pierre Arditi.

On a volé ma VF
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of st...

Le Voyage en pyjama
2024
as Jules César
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.

Tout sauf l’ennui
2023
as Pierre Arditi

Clémenceau, la force d'aimer
2023
as Georges Clémenceau

Fallait pas le dire !
2023

Maestro(s)
2022
as François Dumar
The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteent...

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
2022
as Self
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a...

They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
2022
as Martin
Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.

Mémoire trouble
2022
as Pierre Garlat
Garlat, a former cop, agrees with Voltaire's maxim, but when confronted with evidence manipulation in one of his former investigations, he is forced t...

Adieu Paris
2022
as Jacques
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, mast...

Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022
as Self
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2...

The Accusation
2021
as Jean Farel
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a ...

Little Nicholas' Treasure
2021
as M. Moucheboume
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but ...

Le Tartuffe
2021
as Tartuffe
A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.

Mitterrand, président culturel
2021
as Self (archive footage)
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, f...

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as The actor who rehearses
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

I Love You Coiffure
2020
as François Fleury (segment "Le Psychanalyste")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over t...

Compromis
2020
as Denis
2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked th...

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu
2019
as Self

La Belle Époque
2019
as Pierre
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love ...

Quand sort la recluse
2019
as le docteur Cauvert
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector...

The Summer House
2018
as Jean
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with he...

Quelque chose a changé
2018
as Louis-Régis Dupont-Moreau
Outvoted by his board of directors and hounded by the press, the Parisian CEO of a large company finds refuge for the weekend in a country inn run by ...

Mémoires d'un condamné
2017
as Narrateur (Voice)

Mr & Mme Adelman
2017
as Claude de Richemont
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals...

Vermeer: Beyond Time
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, compar...

The Sweet Escape
2015
as Fisherman who looks like Pierre Arditi
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean...

A Change of Heart
2015
as Jean-Pierre Berthelot
Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart ...

Comme s'il en pleuvait
2014
as Bruno

La Fleur de l'âge
2013
as Gaspard Dassonville
Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half h...

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012
as Orphée #1
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice....

Granny's Funeral
2012
as Le père d'Armand
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky c...

La danse de l'albatros
2012
as Thierry

La Vérité
2011
as Michel

Vivace
2011
as Gilles Vasseur
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and th...

D'un film à l'autre
2011
as Self (archive footage)
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that...
Fric, Krach et geule de bois : le roman de la crise
2010
as Narrator

Roses on Credit
2010
as M. Georges
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of...

Streamfield, les carnets noirs
2010
as the first
Depiction of "Clearstream affair", a first-class political scandal in France in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election.

Je ne vous oublierai jamais
2010
as Armand de La Frémerie
Marseille, 1941. Despite the war, young Levilé still hopes to save his mother and sisters in Poland and organize their departure for Argentina.

Together Is Too Much
2010
as Henri
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what...
Being Fidel Castro
2010
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take ...

Sentiments provisoires
2010
as Marc
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But ...

L'Éloignement
2009
as Charles

Bambou
2009
as Reynald Van Nuyten
Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. E...

Park Benches
2009
as Mr. Borelly
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every...

You'll Miss Me
2009
as Marcel Hanri
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, t...

La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Change of Plans
2009
as Henri
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.

A Day at the Museum
2008
as Henri Province
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin,...

Can You Keep a Secret?
2008
as Pierre Grimaux
Delphine passes herself off as her boss's lover.

Tailleur pour dames
2008
as Moulineaux

The Great Alibi
2008
as Henri Pages
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around...

Mitterrand à Vichy
2008
as Narrator (voice)
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provin...

Batailles
2008
"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount ...

Faisons un rêve
2007
as Lui

Our Earthmen Friends
2007
as Le narrateur (voix)
What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.
Les Liens du sang
2007
as Antoine Meyer

The Big Apartment
2006
as Adrien
Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their ...

Aller-retour dans la journée
2006
as François Villedieu-Lacour

Private Fears in Public Places
2006
as Lionel
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

The Separation
2005
as Aristide Briand
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to l...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Frédéric Larsan
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shoc...

The Courage to Love
2005
as Pierre
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005
as Alain
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his...

Julie, chevalier de Maupin
2005
as Charles de Florensac
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has tur...

Victoire
2004
as le père
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.

The First Time I Turned Twenty
2004
as Oncle Jérémy
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ri...

Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
as le pédiatre
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book ada...

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Not on the Lips
2003
as Georges Valandray
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were mo...

Une villa pour deux
2003
as François
After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed an...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the titl...

The Carnival of the Animals
2003
as Présentateur
The Carnival of the Animals (French: Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French compose...

Une Ferrari pour deux
2002
as Vincent Saulnier
A boss decide to bring a Ferrari to a footballer and meet on the trip an ex-employee he fired few months ago. Since the boss get stopped by the police...

Joyeuses Pâques
2002
as Stéphane
Patron sur mesure
2002
as Philippe Roussel

Tout va bien c'est Noël!
2001
as Joachim
Christmas? The joy of rejoining the family and spending the most anticipated holiday of the whole year. Seeing family members you haven't seen for a l...

Remembrance of Things to Come
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personal history of France.

The Blue Island
2001
as Alexandre, Mellie's father
France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impov...

An Unlikely Couple
2001
as Thomas
Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in com...

On n'est pas là pour s'aimer
2000
as Maxime Vergnaud
Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. T...

Rêver peut-être
2000
A staging of Jean-Claude Grumberg's play "Rêver peut-être" by Jean-Michel Ribes.

Le dernier plan
2000
as Ludovic
Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared aft...

Actors
2000
as Pierre Arditi
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...

The False Servant
2000
as Trivelin
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.

Chacun chez soi
2000
as Pierre Bazeilles
Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discre...

A Monkey's Tale
1999
as Le Roi (Voice)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited ...

« Art »
1998
as Yvan

Un amour de cousine
1998
as Pierre
Cheated on and fired from her job, Lucille leaves her suburb and moves to Paris with little hope of finding anything better. Shortly after arriving, s...

Chance or Coincidence
1998
as Pierre Turi
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.

La passion du docteur Bergh
1998
as Bernard Letechin
A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.

Let There Be Light!
1998
as La voix de Dieu l'invisible (voix seulement)
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Same Old Song
1997
as Claude
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is...

Gentlemen Children
1997
as Joseph / Pope
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be...

Une clinique au soleil
1996
as Bernard Letéchin

Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
as Professeur Lerner
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is ...

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
as Narrateur (non crédité)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities...

The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Monsieur Peyrolle
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

L'Affaire Dreyfus
1995
as Col. Esterhazy
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack...

Couchettes express
1994
as Jack London (voice)
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Ber...

Smoking / No Smoking
1993
as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories,...

Smoking
1993
as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories,...

No Smoking
1993
as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories,...

The Little Apocalypse
1993
as Henri
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publ...

Les clés du Paradis
1991
as Gaspard Cavaillac
Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1991
as Eric
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming

The Pleasure of Love
1991
as Guillaume de Burlador
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is ...

La Femme et le Pantin
1990
as Mathieu
Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spont...

Duo
1990
as Michel
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic...

Vanille fraise
1989
as Antoine Boulanger
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Natalia
1989
as Paul Langlade
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.

Radio corbeau
1989
as Duval, l'inspecteur
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was pro...

Bonjour l'angoisse
1988
as Jean-Hugues Aymeric
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.

Poker
1988
as Duke
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come...

The Catwalk
1988
as Jean Nevers
Neighbors overcome, Cora and John meet in the favor of an accident - a fall from the balcony of the family apartment - which has suffered the son of C...

Engagements of the Heart
1987
as Jérôme
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits ...

Velvet Paws
1987
as Poltergeist
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sih...

Flag
1987
as Commissaire Pierre Tramoni
A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants...

Agent Trouble
1987
as Stanilas
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious b...

The Little Coquette
1987
as Armand
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for fre...

State of Grace
1986
as Jean-Marc Vannier-Buchet
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmne...

Un métier de seigneur
1986
as Cousin / Arvers

Mélo
1986
as Pierre Belcroix
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, ...

Follow My Gaze
1986
as The publicist
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...

La répétition ou L'amour puni
1986
as Héro
Triple sec
1986
A César award nominated short comedy.

Tailleur pour dames
1985
as Moulineaux

Strictement personnel
1985
as Jean Cottard
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...

The Children
1985
as Le journaliste
Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to ...

Farewell Fred
1985
as La Grenouille
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund...

Love Unto Death
1984
as Simon Roche
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
Le secret de monsieur L
1983
as Patrick Gemet
Journalist and television presenter Patrick Gemet accepted the invitation of Victor Lumen to visit him in his old and strange Burgundian residence.

Mademoiselle ma mère
1983
as Georges Letournel

Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983
as Robert Dufresne
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school c...

The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
1982
as Emile Blondet
At 36, despite all the lovers she has had, amiable Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princess of Cadignan, has never found true love. She confides this to the Ma...

Nestor Burma, détective de choc
1982
as Lecuyer
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.

L'Arme au bleu
1981
as Le Sergent-chef

Le Traité d'Auteuil
1981
as André

Une sacrée famille
1981
as Gaston Brevannes
Le rat noir d'amérique
1981
as Narrator
A César award nominated short drama.

Heads or Tails
1980
as Pierre Larrieu
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company ...

Légitime défense
1980
as Bertrand

My American Uncle
1980
as Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anx...

Rape of Love
1978
as Julien
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trau...
la femme rompue
1978

Le funambule
1974

Les Oiseaux de la lune
1974
as Inspector Grindot
Valentin, the general supervisor of a sub-prefecture cram school, has a strange power: all he has to do is wish for a certain person to turn into a bi...

Blaise Pascal
1972
as Blaise Pascal
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecuti...

The Adventures of Zadig
1970
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.

Alyse et Chloé
1970
as Le mage adepte du nombril
Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, h...

Last Leap
1970
A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base...
L'illusion comique
1970
as Clindor
Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques
1970
as Arlequin #1

La 99ème Minute
1966
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partner...

Le vieux juif Blonde
N/A

A fixed idea by Paul Valéry
N/A
as Moi
A beach on the shores of the Mediterranean, crushed by the sun, under an implacable blue sky, isolated on a rock like Sisyphus rolling away his bitter...

L'École des femmes
N/A
as Arnolphe

Le raisin d'or
N/A
as Baron Jean de Malbray
Un p'tit air de bonheur
N/A