Biography
Philippe Nahon (24 December 1938 - 19 April 2020) was a French actor. Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible (cameo).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Irreversible: Straight Cut
2023
as The Butcher
The chronological-cut of Gaspar Noe's controversial arthouse thriller, retelling the story of a couple who experience an act of brutal violence that c...

Journaliste(s)
2021
as Hyppolyte
After the attacks that bloodied Paris, everyone is worried about terrorist acts. A man is running in the middle of the night. He has blood on his face...

Moi, maman, ma mère et moi
2019
as Jeff
Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his ...

Fornacis
2018
as Owner of the Fornacis Bar
Anya, a mourning woman, drives to the unknown in her vintage car, a 1961 Facel Vega. Her only traveling companion is a mysterious urn. Consumed by sad...

Me and El Che
2018
as The photograph
GO is not just an aging college teacher. He still is the young 18 year-old idealist who dared to engaged in social and political action to defend his...

The Cat's Regret
2018
A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a les...

Besoin Dead
2017
as Father Daniel
In a church, a future bride dresses in secret. Just before meeting up with her, the best man and the priest discover the city has been invaded by the ...

Mon frère bien-aimé
2016
as Guy Fourvier

One Wild Moment
2015
as Le voisin
Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Mari...

Anton Tchekhov 1890
2015
as Grigorovitch
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchék...

La storia di Cino
2014
as Le Chercheur D’or

ADN, l'âme de la terre
2014
as Howard
Akim is a young uneducated Tunisian born with the gift of healing. Confronted by an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company who seeks to profit from his g...

Horsehead
2014
as Priest
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysi...

Colt 45
2014
as Police Prefect Pradier
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field briga...

Ablations
2014
as Wortz
Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He w...

14 Million Screams
2014
as Le mari
The movie is called 14 Millions Screams because 14 millions young girls are forced to be married every year. As of today 700 Million women were marrie...

Julia's Curse
2014
as Julien
When Julia comes back to France, a curse seems to have hit her family. So when Julia's daughter is accused of murder, she decides to investigate by he...

The Marchers
2013
as René Ledu
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Our Heroes Died Tonight
2013
as Ferdinand
France in the early 60s. Simon, a wrestler, wears a white mask. In the ring, he is known as "The Specter". He suggests to his friend Victor who has ju...

The Informant
2013
as Glacose
A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.

Tied
2013
as Le ministre
A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

Autopsy of Delights
2012
as Gary (voice)
Gary, breathless, is about to die. In his last confession, the old man begins a painful journey through the darkness of his cruel and morbid past.

In the Name of the Son
2012
as Father Taon
When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronte...

Nothing Sacred
2012
as Otho
A pair of twins named Blue and Delilah, separated at birth, meet for the first time at their mother's death bed. Their mother tells the twins that it ...

War Horse
2011
as French Auctioneer
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...

Belleville Tokyo
2011
as Jean-Jacques
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissa...

Cannibal
2010
as Le père
A lonely man finds a beautiful young woman unconscious and covered in blood while walking through the woods. He starts to fall for her but learns of a...

The Pack
2010
as Chinaski
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro...

Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010
as Kazan
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the family when he returns, pursued by a gang of smugg...

Mammuth
2010
as Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is d...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010
as Professeur Ménard
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and ...

Blackout
2010
as Père François
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massac...

En chantier, monsieur Tanner !
2010
as Tanner's father
Paul Tanner has just inherited a mansion on a vast property. Going there, he noticed that the building was in poor condition and that work had already...

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010
as Guillaume de Villon
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, Fra...

Wandering Streams
2010
as Edmond
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe...

Humans
2009
as Professeur Schneider
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadl...
Contre nature
2008
as The patriarch
Aix’s Island, 1930’s. An impossible love story: two cousins, Igor and Claire. Victims of pressure from the community who lives on this isolated Island...

Lady Blood
2008
as Jo Lamier
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lea...

Eldorado
2008
as Le Collectionneur
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends ...

Dragon Hunters
2008
as Le Seigneur Arnold (voice)
Dragon Hunters is a fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters: the world has become a vast conglomerate of islands of varying size a...

The Last Deadly Mission
2008
as Charles Subra
A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be relea...

Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
as Francky Garcia
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.

Cowboy
2007
as Le borgne
Daniel Piron has the blues. His relationship is monotonous, his ideals have vanished, and even his job as a journalist is a joke. The only idea that s...

The Second Wind
2007
as Inspecteur Fardiano
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu ne...

Bloody Current Exchange
2007
as Vincent
A well dressed old man was waiting on a bed. A telephone rang. A glamorous young lady entered the room. They vaguely introduced themselves and made lo...

Eye for Eye
2007
A cop infiltrates a corrupted party in order to eliminate a "godfather" who is responsible of his old friend's death.

Michou d'Auber
2007
as le cafetier
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the fac...

The Elf Case
2007
as Alfred Sirven
In 1988, after much cunning political maneuvering, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven become the chief executives at Elf. They discover a company...

Elf, Kings of Oil
2007
as Alfred Sirven
In 1988, supported by François Mitterrand, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent ran for the presidency of Elf. Alfred Sirven, through Christine Deviers-Joncour, intr...

Virgil
2005
as Louis
Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting...

Doo Wop
2005
as Michel
Ziggy is a freedom loving Parisian often in debts and usually misunderstood by fellow citizens. Though there's a pretty unique karma he has it when se...

Love Is in the Air
2005
as Le père de Ludo
Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so...

Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône
2005
as Self
Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "...

Calvaire
2005
as Robert Orton
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège whe...

D77
2005
as Le dépanneur
A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.

Dérives
2005
Short movie

Handsome Jack
2003
For years, Alain and Madeleine, in their fifties, have consecrated all of their time to their small bistro. Devoted to serving their clientele, they a...

L'Enfant du pays
2003
as Charles
This tale of childhood and adolescence is told through brief sequences that take place in the life of a modest family from the Pas-de-Calais region du...

Nickel and Dime
2003
as Roger
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. ...

High Tension
2003
as The Killer
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' i...

The Code
2002
as Simon
Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wi...

Irreversible
2002
as Man
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Be...

Les Siens
2001
as Le Père/Le Chauffeur de Taxi
Virilité
2001
as Monsieur Max
Thirty-year-old Alexis is a teenager and has no desire to commit himself either professionally or romantically. He succumbs to the charm of Laura who ...

Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001
as Jean Chastel
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the ...

The Outcasts
2001
as The boss
Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but a...

The Château
2001
as Pierre
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.

Without Family
2000
as Barberin
Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is ...

The Crimson Rivers
2000
as Homme à la station service
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by ...

Save Me
2000
Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of...

Highway Melody
2000
as Milou
A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is minding his own business when a phonograph record ...

Millevaches (Expérience)
2000
as L'Homme
A César award nominated short feature.

Prison à domicile
1999
as The bowling alley boss
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model pris...

The Carriers Are Waiting
1999
as Le responsable
Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse an...

Melody for a Hustler
1998
as L'inspecteur du Havre
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionair...

The Octopus
1998
as Bar boss 2
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire V...

I Stand Alone
1998
as The Butcher
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. H...

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
as Le gérant du supermarché
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...

Sodomites
1998
as Un Spectateur
Pornographic shortfilm directed in 1998 for a campaign against AIDS, in association with French Ministry for Health. Phallus, a muscular Maciste with ...

Noël en Quercy
1997
as Maurice Lacassagne
Seule
1997

A Self-Made Hero
1996
as The Général
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.

Happiness Is No Joke
1995
as André
What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is ...

Guardian Angels
1995
as Le chauffeur de taxi
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.

La Haine
1995
as Roof Police Chief
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news ...

Pigalle
1995
as Lezzi
It's a grim world of prostitution, drug dens, transvestites, junkies and murderers. The seediest side of urban life is examined in this tragedy. The f...

Toubab Bi
1992
as Le concierge
Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by t...

Carne
1991
as The Butcher
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground w...

Solemn Communion
1977
as Un syndicaliste
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro...

Touched in the Head
1974
as Jean-Paul, l'ouvrier-boulanger
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squ...

The French Calvinists
1972
as Reboul
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed ...

Le Doulos
1962
as Remy
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh...