Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years—after the short-film "Antoine et Colette" in 1962—beside actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and then wife, Christine. Those films are "Stolen Kisses" (1968), "Bed and Board" (1970) and "Love on the Run" (1979). Truffaut stated that Léaud was the source of inspiration for the Antoine Doinel character and "I created some scenes just because I knew he would be funny in them—at least I laughed during the writing as I thought of him." He also collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like "Two English Girls" ("Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent", 1971) and "Day for Night" ("La Nuit américaine", 1973) and became the actor most commonly affiliated with him. Although Antoine Doinel is his most familiar character, he often found his performances in other films to be compared to his Doinel character whether there were legitimate similarities or not.