Biography
Despite racking up more than 40 features since his debut in Claude Lelouch's 1964 "La Femme spectacle," Jean Lescot has spent much of his career on TV and in the dubbing studio. Starting on stage in 1958, he was mostly seen in minor screen roles after playing Antiochus in Pierre-Alain Jolivet's 1964 adaptation of Racine's tragedy "Bérénice." Over the next three decades, he cropped up as Bernard in the Brigitte Bardot comedy "L'Ours et la poupée," the superintendent in the news thriller "Le 4éme pouvoir" and Nicole Garcia's father in Alain Resnais's "Mon oncle d'amérique." He also had roles in the wartime dramas "L'Affiche rouge" and "For Those I Loved" and the grim social studies "F comme Fairbanks" and "Exit-Exil." But, besides post-millennial collaborations with directors Philippe Harel and Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, Lescot has been most gainfully employed as a voiceover artist since playing Lieutenant Kinderman in "The Exorcist." He voiced Dan Hedaya in "The Usual Suspects," Leslie Phillips in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" and Valeriy Zolotukhin in the Russian vampire thrillers "Night Watch" and "Day Watch." He has also played Amphitryon in Disney's "Hercules," Grandpa Joe in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and Argus Filch in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." But, his most prestigious assignment has been Yoda in the "Star Wars" prequels "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith," as well as the 2008 animation "The Clone Wars."
