Who played Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows?

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French director Francois Truffaut stands at right speaking with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during filming of La Sirene du Mississippi on a city street. — François Truffaut François Truffaut (far right) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during the filming of *La Sirène du Mississipi* (1969; *Mississippi Mermaid*).

The character Antoine Doinel in the 1959 film The 400 Blows was played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.1

Directed by François Truffaut, the film is a seminal work of the New Wave cinema movement and serves as the first installment in a series following Doinel, a character widely regarded as Truffaut's alter ego. Léaud’s performance was highly acclaimed, and he went on to reprise the role in four subsequent films.1