
Dominique Pinon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1955-03-04 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Dominique Pinon
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.
Acting
Go West!
as Maslo the Bellboy
Coffeehouse Mysteries
as Waiter
(2025)
(2025)
La vie avec un idiot
as Vladimir (voice)
(2024)
Memoir of a Snail
as Percy Pudel (voice)
(2024)
At the End of the Day
as Le médecin
(2024)
She Loved Blossoms More
as Logo
(2023)
Apaches: Gang of Paris
as Gueule de Bois
(2023)
Amélie: The Real Story
as (archive footage)
(2022)
Bigbug
as Igor
(2022)
(2022)
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
as Le détective privé
(2021)
A Perfect Enemy
as Jean Rosen
(2021)
Emma Bovary
as Homais
(2021)
Dernière Station
as Le pompiste
(2021)
Pierre & Jeanne
as Le notaire
(2019)
Spread Your Wings
as Pichon
(2019)
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
as Jean Luc
(2019)
I Love My Mum
as French Restaurant Manager
(2019)
Jo
as L'Inspecteur Ducros
(2019)
Anna
as Monk Dominic
(2019)
Magnetick Pathways
as Raymond Vachs
(2018)
White Fang
as Beauty Smith (voice)
(2018)
Cyrano, My Love
as Lucien
(2018)
(2017)
Based on a True Story
as Raymond
(2017)
La DorMeuse Duval
as Basile Matrin
(2017)
Somewhere Beautiful
as Magazine Editor
(2017)
Two Snails Set Off
as (voice)
(2017)
Vive la crise !
as Noël
(2016)
Max & Leon
as Michel
(2015)
Soulless 2
as Bernard
(2015)
The Price of Desire
as Fernand Leger
(2015)
A Love You
as Serge
(2014)
My Old Lady
as Monsieur Lefebvre
(2014)
Brèves de comptoir
as Taxi 2
(2014)
OXI, an Act of Resistance
as Investigator
(2013)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Two Clouds
(2013)
Serial Teachers
as L'inspecteur d'académie
(2012)
La Guerre du Royal Palace
as Colonel Otto Strudel
(2012)
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
as L'inspecteur Lamentin
(2011)
Holidays by the Sea
as Homme caravane
(2011)
Crédit pour tous
as Gobert
(2011)
Madame Sans Gêne
as Fouché
(2010)
Mumu
as Père de Roger
(2010)
What War May Bring
as Maurice Lemoine
(2010)
Colère
as Mougin, le sorcier
(2010)
(2010)
Specky Four-Eyes
as Narrator
(2009)
Micmacs
as Fracasse
(2009)
Murphy's Law
as Rudy
(2009)
Humans
as Gildas
(2009)
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Jean Baptiste
(2009)
An Organization of Dreams
as Inspector
(2008)
The Oxford Murders
as Frank
(2008)
Dante 01
as César
(2008)
Fin de partie
as Hamm
(2008)
A Day at the Museum
as Simon
(2008)
(2007)
Crossed Tracks
as Pierre Laclos / Louis
(2007)
Moon in a Bottle
as Pascal Rossignol
(2007)
Midsummer Madness
as Toni
(2007)
(2006)
Dikkenek
as Stef
(2006)
When Evil Calls
as Detective Ringwald
(2005)
Camping à la ferme
as Rodolphe Peretti
(2005)
Your Name is Justine
as Oncle Goran
(2005)
Ze Film
as Le SDF
(2005)
(2005)
L'Hiver sous la table
as Dragomir
(2004)
A Very Long Engagement
as Sylvain
(2004)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as His Excellency's Fop
(2004)
Darkhunters
as Charlie Jackson
(2004)
Hellbreeder
as Detective Weiss
(2004)
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
as Petit cowboy
(2004)
Ne quittez pas !
as Le clochard
(2003)
Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
as Fredy Mazas
(2003)
Entrusted
as Henri Lafont
(2003)
At Home with the Rozes
as le lieutenant
(2003)
Parts of the Family
as Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
(2002)
Dead or Alive
as The Butcher
(2001)
Amélie
as Joseph
(2001)
Beautiful Memories
as Robert
(2001)
Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
as P'tit gars
(2000)
Sabotage!!
as Armani
(2000)
The Pilot
as Pilot
(2000)
Highway Melody
as Jacky Carpe
(1999)
Quasimodo d'el Paris
as Trouillefou
(1999)
Like a Fish Out of Water
as Melvin
(1997)
Alien Resurrection
as Vriess
(1997)
Mordbüro
as Eugène
(1997)
Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
as Adrien
(1996)
La Gotera
as 'Pastel de Fer'
(1996)
A Saturday on Earth
as Le brigadier Morel
(1995)
The City of Lost Children
as The Diver / The Clones
(1994)
KO Kid
as K.O Kid
(1993)
My Name is Victor
as Bernard
(1993)
Loonies at Large
as Angel
(1992)
Août
as Eugène Blouzette
(1991)
Delicatessen
as Louison
(1991)
Les arcandiers
as Bruno
(1991)
25 décembre 58, 10h36
as Dominique
(1990)
1871
as Napoléon III
(1990)
(1989)
The French Revolution
as Drouet
(1988)
Frantic
as Wino
(1988)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
as Wojtech
(1988)
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
as Albert
(1988)
(1987)
Devil's Paradise
as Gato
(1986)
Betty Blue
as Surfer
(1986)
Follow My Gaze
as Frédéric
(1986)
Sauve-toi, Lola
as Jean-Pierre
(1986)
Rückfahrt in den Tod
as Fred
(1986)
Cent francs l'amour
as Tom
(1985)
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Monsieur Pichon
(1985)
Going and Coming Back
as Villager
(1985)
La Baston
as Marcel Noblet
(1985)
Zina
as Pierre
(1984)
Mint Tea
as Roger
(1984)
Dream One
as Monkey
(1983)
The Moon in the Gutter
as Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother
(1983)
Ghost Dance
as Salesman/Guide
(1983)
Car Cemetery
as Ybar
(1983)
(1982)
Enigma
as Madman (uncredited)
(1982)
The Return of Martin Guerre
as Antoine
(1982)
Shot Pattern
as Daniel Verlot
(1982)
La Chanson du mal-aimé
as Albert de Kostrowitzky
(1982)
Merlin ou le cours de l'or
as Le fils
(1982)
Noisy Neighbours
as Musician
(1981)
Diva
as Le curé
(1980)
La Découverte
as The young painter