 He took the title role in the 1970 film "Bartleby", in which he starred opposite Paul Scofield.In 1971 he starred in a major role alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet "The Boat on the Grass" about a girl between two friends.In this film are references to his stage roles when he declaims Hamlet or when he sings in duet with Claude Jade "God Save the Queen".