Biography: Starting in the '60s, French actor Philippe Leroy (somtimes credited as Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu) was one of the most active European screen players for decades, with innumerable supporting roles in features representing all genres. Tall, distinguished, and elegant, Leroy exhibited a level of ease in everything from earnest dramas to farces to full-blooded horror. Born in France in 1930, Leroy debuted onscreen in cause célèbreJacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), then began taking on an average of five to six films a year for the next 40 years, under the aegis of both well-known and lower-profiled directors, but most frequently on his native continent.