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.
Movie | Go West! | Maslo the Bellboy | 2025 |
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2025 | |
Movie | Memoir of a Snail | Percy Pudel (voice) | 2024-10-17 |
Movie | She Loved Blossoms More | Logo | 2024-06-07 |
Movie | At The End Of The Day | Le médecin | 2024-09-19 |
Movie | Apaches: Gang of Paris | Gueule de Bois | 2023-03-29 |
Movie | Bigbug | Igor | 2022-02-11 |
Series | The Island of Thirty Coffins | Horacio | 2022-03-21 |
Movie | A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | Le détective privé | 2022-05-25 |
Series | Good People | Roger | 2022-10-23 |
Movie | Hamlet Within | 2022-05-21 | |
Movie | A Perfect Enemy | Jean Rosen | 2021-06-11 |
Movie | Emma Bovary | Homais | 2021-12-13 |
Movie | Pierre & Jeanne | Le notaire | 2021-08-29 |
Movie | Magnetick Pathways | Raymond Vachs | 2019-04-25 |
Movie | Spread Your Wings | Pichon | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | Dark Stories to Survive the Night | Jean Luc | 2019-10-31 |
Movie | I Love My Mum | French Restaurant Manager | 2019-05-31 |
Movie | Jo | L'Inspecteur Ducros | 2019-11-09 |
Movie | White Fang | Beauty Smith (voice) | 2018-03-28 |
Movie | Cyrano, My Love | Lucien | 2018-11-10 |
Movie | O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta | 2018-05-05 | |
Movie | La DorMeuse Duval | Basile Matrin | 2017-02-22 |
Movie | Somewhere Beautiful | Magazine Editor | 2017-04-21 |
Movie | Sélection Officielle | 2017-05-17 | |
Movie | Two Snails Set Off | (voice) | 2017-06-08 |
Movie | Vive la crise ! | Noël | 2017-05-10 |
Movie | Based on a True Story | Raymond | 2017-11-01 |
Movie | Max & Leon | Michel | 2016-11-01 |
Movie | Soulless 2 | Bernard | 2015-03-05 |
Movie | The Price of Desire | Fernand Leger | 2015-03-19 |
Movie | A Love You | Serge | 2015-06-24 |
Series | Cassandre | Jean-Pierre Marchand | 2015-11-28 |
Movie | Brèves de comptoir | Taxi 2 | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | OXI, an Act of Resistance | Investigator | 2014-10-09 |
Movie | My Old Lady | Monsieur Lefebvre | 2014-09-09 |
Movie | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Two Clouds | 2013-10-16 |
Movie | Serial Teachers | L'inspecteur d'académie | 2013-04-17 |
Movie | La Guerre du Royal Palace | Colonel Otto Strudel | 2012-05-06 |
Movie | The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm | L'inspecteur Lamentin | 2012-01-11 |
Movie | Holidays by the Sea | Homme caravane | 2011-06-29 |
Movie | Madame Sans Gêne | Fouché | 2011-06-14 |
Movie | Crédit pour tous | Gobert | 2011-03-29 |
Movie | Mumu | Père de Roger | 2010-03-24 |
Movie | What War May Bring | Maurice Lemoine | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Colère | Mougin, le sorcier | 2010-07-16 |
Movie | An Organization of Dreams | Inspector | 2009-01-02 |
Movie | Micmacs | Fracasse | 2009-10-28 |
Movie | Humans | Gildas | 2009-04-22 |
Movie | Murphy's Law | Rudy | 2009-11-04 |
Movie | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Jean Baptiste | 2009-01-09 |
Movie | Dante 01 | César | 2008-01-02 |
Movie | The Oxford Murders | Frank | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | A Day at the Museum | Simon | 2008-11-19 |
Movie | Fin de partie | Hamm | 2008-09-23 |
Movie | Midsummer Madness | Toni | 2007-10-12 |
Movie | Moon in a Bottle | Pascal Rossignol | 2007-11-16 |
Movie | Crossed Tracks | Pierre Laclos / Louis | 2007-06-27 |
Movie | When Evil Calls | Detective Ringwald | 2006-06-30 |
Movie | Dikkenek | Stef | 2006-06-21 |
Movie | Ze Film | Le SDF | 2005-02-23 |
Movie | Your Name is Justine | Oncle Goran | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Camping à la ferme | Rodolphe Peretti | 2005-06-29 |
Movie | L'Hiver sous la table | Dragomir | 2005-04-19 |
Movie | Le bon, la brute et les zombies | Petit cowboy | 2004-02-07 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | His Excellency's Fop | 2004-12-22 |
Movie | Hellbreeder | Detective Weiss | 2004-03-16 |
Movie | A Very Long Engagement | Sylvain | 2004-10-27 |
Movie | Darkhunters | Charlie Jackson | 2004-09-07 |
Movie | Ne quittez pas ! | Le clochard | 2004-08-18 |
Movie | Parts of the Family | Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited) | 2003-01-10 |
Movie | At Home with the Rozes | le lieutenant | 2003-04-02 |
Movie | Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure | Fredy Mazas | 2003-02-07 |
Movie | Entrusted | Henri Lafont | 2003-07-03 |
Movie | Amélie | Joseph | 2001-04-25 |
Movie | Beautiful Memories | Robert | 2001-08-24 |
Movie | Sabotage!! | Armani | 2000-10-14 |
Movie | Highway Melody | Jacky Carpe | 2000-06-28 |
Movie | Like a Fish Out of Water | Melvin | 1999-05-05 |
Movie | Quasimodo d'el Paris | Trouillefou | 1999-03-24 |
Movie | Alien Resurrection | Vriess | 1997-11-12 |
Movie | La Gotera | 'Pastel de Fer' | 1996-01-01 |
Movie | A Saturday on Earth | Le brigadier Morel | 1996-08-28 |
Movie | The City of Lost Children | The Diver / The Clones | 1995-05-17 |
Movie | Loonies at Large | Angel | 1993-08-11 |
Movie | My Name is Victor | Bernard | 1993-03-16 |
Movie | Août | Eugène Blouzette | 1992-01-08 |
Movie | Delicatessen | Louison | 1991-04-17 |
Movie | 25 décembre 58, 10h36 | Dominique | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Les arcandiers | Bruno | 1991-12-11 |
Movie | 1871 | Napoléon III | 1990-09-09 |
Movie | The french revolution: Years of rage | Drouet | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | The french revolution: Years of hope | Drouet | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau | Albert | 1988-08-24 |
Movie | Frantic | Wino | 1988-02-19 |
Movie | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Wojtech | 1988-09-02 |
Movie | Devil's Paradise | Gato | 1987-05-07 |
Movie | Betty Blue | Surfer | 1986-04-09 |
Movie | Cent francs l'amour | Tom | 1986-08-20 |
Movie | Sauve-toi, Lola | Jean-Pierre | 1986-09-03 |
Movie | Follow My Gaze | Frédéric | 1986-04-23 |
Movie | Rückfahrt in den Tod | Fred | 1986-09-22 |
Movie | Going and Coming Back | Villager | 1985-03-27 |
Movie | The Telephone Always Rings Twice | Monsieur Pichon | 1985-01-23 |
Movie | La Baston | Marcel Noblet | 1985-08-07 |
Movie | Zina | Pierre | 1985-11-01 |
Series | Via Mala | Niklaus Lauretz | 1985-09-01 |
Movie | Dream One | Monkey | 1984-12-12 |
Movie | If I Were 1000 Years Old | 1983-01-14 | |
Movie | Car Cemetery | Ybar | 1983-04-30 |
Movie | Ghost Dance | Salesman/Guide | 1983-12-15 |
Movie | The Moon in the Gutter | Frank | 1983-05-18 |
Movie | La Chanson du mal-aimé | 1982-02-03 | |
Movie | Enigma | Un fou (uncredited) | 1982-10-15 |
Movie | Shot Pattern | Daniel Verlot | 1982-09-21 |
Movie | The Return of Martin Guerre | Antoine | 1982-05-14 |
Movie | Diva | Le curé | 1981-03-11 |
Movie | La Découverte | The young painter | 1980-12-31 |