Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#107822
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Claude Dauphin represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Claude is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Claude Dauphin appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Claude. The Tenant is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, René Clément and others, Claude Dauphin helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Tenant (1976) as Husband at accident · Is Paris Burning? (1966) as Colonel Lebel · Grand Prix (1966) as Hugo Simon
Career snapshot
Ranked #107822 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1941–1976
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Tenant
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Tenant
Most frequent director
Roman Polanski
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Roman Polanski
Most common genre
Drama
3 titles
Average runtime
2h 8m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.3 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. The Tenant — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1940s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Tale of the Fox.
Most productive era
1960s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1940s | 1960s | 1970s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.92 films | 7.31 film |
| Action | — | 6.91 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Monkey.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
1976The Tenant
7.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Husband at accident.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Husband at accident
Directed by Roman Polanski
as Colonel Lebel
Directed by René Clément
as Hugo Simon
Directed by John Frankenheimer
as Monkey
Directed by Irene Starewicz
as President of Earth
Directed by Roger Vadim
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Husband at accident
The Tenant (1976)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Husband at accident gives Claude Dauphin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Colonel Lebel
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Performance score6.8
Is Paris Burning? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Colonel Lebel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hugo Simon
Grand Prix (1966)
Performance score6.8
Grand Prix asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hugo Simon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Monkey
The Tale of the Fox (1941)
Performance score6.8
The Tale of the Fox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Monkey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Husband at accident
Start here. The Tenant is the clearest statement of what Claude Dauphin does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Claude at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Tale of the Fox (1941)
A deliberate change of key after The Tenant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
A deliberate change of key after The Tale of the Fox — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Grand Prix (1966)
Keeps the drama register of Is Paris Burning? but asks for a colder reading of it.
Barbarella (1968)
A deliberate change of key after Grand Prix — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Irene Starewicz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tale of the Fox
John Frankenheimer
Director
1 film together
Notably Grand Prix
René Clément
Director
1 film together
Notably Is Paris Burning?
Roger Vadim
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbarella
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Tenant
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenantRené Clément
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Is Paris Burning?John Frankenheimer
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grand PrixIrene Starewicz
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Tale of the FoxRoger Vadim
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarbarellaSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Is Paris Burning?
as Colonel Lebel
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Grand Prix
as Hugo Simon
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Claude Dauphin has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Drama Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Is Paris Burning?
as Colonel Lebel
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Tenant
as Husband at accident
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Grand Prix
as Hugo Simon
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Grand Prix
as Hugo Simon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Tale of the Fox
as Monkey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Barbarella
as President of Earth
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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