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.
Filmography Memoir of a Snail
2024
Percy Pudel (voice)
Details At The End Of The Day
2024
Le médecin
Details She Loved Blossoms More
2024
Logo
Details Apaches: Gang of Paris
2023
Gueule de Bois
Details Amélie: The Real Story
2023
(archive footage)
Details A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
2022
Le détective privé
Details Hamlet Within
2022
Character TBA
Details Pierre & Jeanne
2021
Le notaire
Details A Perfect Enemy
2021
Jean Rosen
Details Dernière Station
2021
Le pompiste
Details Dark Stories to Survive the Night
2019
Jean Luc
Details Spread Your Wings
2019
Pichon
Details I Love My Mum
2019
French Restaurant Manager
Details Magnetick Pathways
2019
Raymond Vachs
Details O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
2018
Character TBA
Details White Fang
2018
Beauty Smith (voice)
Details Based on a True Story
2017
Raymond
Details Two Snails Set Off
2017
(voice)
Details Somewhere Beautiful
2017
Magazine Editor
Details La DorMeuse Duval
2017
Basile Matrin
Details The Price of Desire
2015
Fernand Leger
Details OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014
Investigator
Details Brèves de comptoir
2014
Taxi 2
Details My Old Lady
2014
Monsieur Lefebvre
Details The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
Two Clouds
Details Serial Teachers
2013
L'inspecteur d'académie
Details La Guerre du Royal Palace
2012
Colonel Otto Strudel
Details The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
2012
L'inspecteur Lamentin
Details Holidays by the Sea
2011
Homme caravane
Details Specky Four-Eyes
2010
Narrator
Details Un pied dans le crime
2010
Character TBA
Details What War May Bring
2010
Maurice Lemoine
Details Colère
2010
Mougin, le sorcier
Details Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
Jean Baptiste
Details An Organization of Dreams
2009
Inspector
Details A Day at the Museum
2008
Simon
Details The Oxford Murders
2008
Frank
Details Moon in a Bottle
2007
Pascal Rossignol
Details L'Acte inconnu
2007
Character TBA
Details Crossed Tracks
2007
Pierre Laclos / Louis
Details When Evil Calls
2006
Detective Ringwald
Details Your Name is Justine
2005
Oncle Goran
Details Camping à la ferme
2005
Rodolphe Peretti
Details L'Hiver sous la table
2005
Dragomir
Details The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
His Excellency's Fop
Details A Very Long Engagement
2004
Sylvain
Details Darkhunters
2004
Charlie Jackson
Details Ne quittez pas !
2004
Le clochard
Details Hellbreeder
2004
Detective Weiss
Details Le bon, la brute et les zombies
2004
Petit cowboy
Details At Home with the Rozes
2003
le lieutenant
Details Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
2003
Fredy Mazas
Details Parts of the Family
2003
Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
Details Dead or Alive
2002
The Butcher
Details Beautiful Memories
2001
Robert
Details Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
2001
P'tit gars
Details Highway Melody
2000
Jacky Carpe
Details Like a Fish Out of Water
1999
Melvin
Details Quasimodo d'el Paris
1999
Trouillefou
Details Alien Resurrection
1997
Vriess
Details Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
1997
Adrien
Details A Saturday on Earth
1996
Le brigadier Morel
Details La Gotera
1996
'Pastel de Fer'
Details The City of Lost Children
1995
The Diver / The Clones
Details My Name is Victor
1993
Bernard
Details 25 décembre 58, 10h36
1991
Dominique
Details Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
1990
Man
Details The French Revolution: Years of Rage
1989
Drouet
Details The French Revolution: Years of Hope
1989
Drouet
Details The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
Wojtech
Details The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
1988
Albert
Details Le Rêve du Phenix
1988
Character TBA
Details Rückfahrt in den Tod
1986
Fred
Details Sauve-toi, Lola
1986
Jean-Pierre
Details Going and Coming Back
1985
Villager
Details The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
Monsieur Pichon
Details Ghost Dance
1983
Salesman/Guide
Details The Moon in the Gutter
1983
Frank
Details If I Were 1000 Years Old
1983
Character TBA
Details Enigma
1982
Madman (uncredited)
Details Shot Pattern
1982
Daniel Verlot
Details The Return of Martin Guerre
1982
Antoine
Details La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982
Character TBA
Details Noisy Neighbours
1982
Musician
Details Merlin ou le cours de l'or
1982
Le fils
Details La Découverte
1980
The young painter
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