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.
Movies
Amélie
Joseph
Delicatessen
Louison
The City of Lost Children
The Diver / The Clones
A Very Long Engagement
Sylvain
The French Revolution
Drouet
Shot Pattern
Daniel Verlot
Alien Resurrection
Dom Vriess
Beautiful Memories
Robert
Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
Fredy Mazas
The Oxford Murders
Frank
Ghost Dance
Salesman/Guide
Micmacs
Fracasse
Hellbreeder
Detective Weiss
Darkhunters
Charlie Jackson
Crossed Tracks
Pierre Laclos / Louis
Dante 01
César
At Home with the Rozes
le lieutenant
Août
Eugène Blouzette
Humans
Gildas
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
Man
Like a Fish Out of Water
Melvin
Moon in a Bottle
Pascal Rossignol
Murphy's Law
Rudy
What War May Bring
Maurice Lemoine
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Wojtech
Holidays by the Sea
Homme caravane
Midsummer Madness
Toni
Ne quittez pas !
Le clochard
The Clown
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Two Clouds
Loonies at Large
Angel
When Evil Calls
Detective Ringwald
Dream One
Monkey
1871
Napoléon III
Zina
Pierre
Frantic
Wino
Sabotage!!
Armani
My Old Lady
Monsieur Lefebvre
The Return of Martin Guerre
Antoine
Les arcandiers
Bruno
Le bon, la brute et les zombies
Petit cowboy
Soulless 2
Bernard
If I Were 1000 Years Old
Cent francs l'amour
Tom
A Love You
Serge
The Price of Desire
Fernand Leger
Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
P'tit gars
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
L'inspecteur Lamentin
Diva
Le curé
A Saturday on Earth
Le brigadier Morel
Specky Four-Eyes
Narrator
My Name is Victor
Bernard
Your Name is Justine
Oncle Goran
KO Kid
K.O Kid
Crédit pour tous
Gobert
Devil's Paradise
Gato
Fin de partie
Hamm
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
His Excellency's Fop
La DorMeuse Duval
Basile Matrin
Max & Leon
Michel
Somewhere Beautiful
Magazine Editor
Vive la crise !
Noël
25 décembre 58, 10h36
Dominique
Based on a True Story
Raymond
Hamlet Revenant
Going and Coming Back
Un villageois
Magnetick Pathways
Raymond Vachs
Dikkenek
Stef
L'Hiver sous la table
Dragomir
The Pilot
Pilot
La Guerre du Royal Palace
Colonel Otto Strudel
Two Snails Set Off
(voice)
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Albert
Cyrano, My Love
Lucien
The Moon in the Gutter
Frank
O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
Sauve-toi, Lola
Jean-Pierre
Spread Your Wings
Pichon
Jo
L'Inspecteur Ducros
I Love My Mum
French Restaurant Manager
La Découverte
The young painter
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
Jean Luc
Entrusted
Henri Lafont
A Perfect Enemy
Jean Rosen
Serial Teachers
L'inspecteur d'académie
La Gotera
'Pastel de Fer'
A Day at the Museum
Simon
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
Le détective privé
Car Cemetery
Ybar
Noisy Neighbours
Musician
Le Rêve du Phenix
Emma Bovary
Homais
White Fang
Beauty Smith (voice)
Madame Sans Gêne
Fouché
Mint Tea
Roger
Anna
Monk Dominic
Bigbug
Igor
Betty Blue
Surfer
Apaches: Gang of Paris
Gueule de Bois
Ze Film
Le SDF
Gilles et Louise
Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
Adrien
Highway Melody
Jacky Carpe
Dernière Station
Le pompiste
Dead or Alive
The Butcher
Pierre & Jeanne
Le notaire
La Baston
Marcel Noblet
Amélie: The Real Story
(archive footage)
Quasimodo d'el Paris
Trouillefou
Hamlet Within
She Loved Blossoms More
Camping à la ferme
Rodolphe Peretti
La Chanson du mal-aimé
OXI, an Act of Resistance
Investigator
Brèves de comptoir
Taxi 2
Colère
Mougin, le sorcier
Mumu
Père de Roger
An Organization of Dreams
Inspector
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Jean Baptiste
Parts of the Family
Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
Mordbüro
Eugène
Rückfahrt in den Tod
Fred
Follow My Gaze
Frédéric
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Monsieur Pichon
Enigma
Un fou (uncredited)
Memoir of a Snail
Percy Pudel (voice)
Un pied dans le crime
Shows
Caméra Café
Jean-Pierre
Outlander
Master Raymond
Cassandre
Jean-Pierre Marchand
Via Mala
Niklaus Lauretz
Dark Stories
Jean-Luc Barrouf
Nachtschicht
Emile Gaspard
Quelle Aventure !
'La Buse'
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Stanley Summers
L'Île aux 30 cercueils
Horacio
Quelle Aventure !
Frère Godefroy
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Hubert Petitpont
Sable noir
Axel
Good People
Roger
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Antoine