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Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault
  • Name: Jean-Louis Barrault
  • Birthday: 1910-09-08
  • Also known as: Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault
  • Place of birth: Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
  • Popularity: 0.115
Biography: Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le Vésinet, Yvelines – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's Phèdre, two plays that made his reputation. Over his career, he acted... Read More

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Title Release date
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff   as  Self (archive footage) 2020-09-09
La lumière du lac   as  Le vieux 1988-11-23
To Be Hamlet   as  Self 1985-01-19
The Night of Varennes   as  Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne 1982-05-15
The Birth of Children of Paradise   as  Self 1967-01-01
Chappaqua   as  Dr. Benoit 1966-08-30
The Big Scare 1964-10-28
The Longest Day   as  Father Louis Roulland 1962-09-25
Blood on His Sword   as  Louis XI 1961-09-06
Experiment in Evil   as  Dr. Cordelier / Opale 1960-07-04
The Dialogue of the Carmelites 1960-06-01
Musée Grévin   as  Self 1958-01-01
Royal Affairs in Versailles   as  Fénelon 1954-02-10
With André Gide   as  Self 1952-02-22
Venom and Eternity   as  Self 1952-01-25
La Ronde   as  The Poet 1950-09-27
Vagabonds imaginaires   as  Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice) 1950-04-26
Man to Men   as  Henri Dunant 1948-10-01
La Rose et le réséda   as  Narrator (voice) 1947-07-10
Blind Desire   as  Michel Kremer 1945-12-07
Children of Paradise   as  Baptiste Debureau 1945-03-15
Angel of the Night   as  Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur 1944-01-19
La Symphonie fantastique   as  Hector Berlioz 1942-04-01
Montmartre on the Seine   as  Michel Courtin 1941-11-19
Parade in 7 Nights   as  Lucien Ardouin 1941-09-24
Mlle. Desiree   as  Napoléon Bonaparte 1941-07-03
L'Or dans la montagne   as  Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan 1939-05-12
The Southern Trail   as  Olcott 1938-09-07
Youth in Revolt   as  Armand 1938-07-21
Orage   as  L'Africain 1938-04-28
Mirages   as  Pierre Bonvais 1938-01-28
I Accuse 1938-01-23
The Puritan   as  Francis Ferriter 1938-01-13
Bizarre, Bizarre   as  William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers 1937-10-20
The Pearls of the Crown   as  Bonaparte jeune 1937-05-12
Street of Shadows   as  le client fou 1937-04-13
Social Police   as  Scoppa 1937-04-09
À nous deux, madame la vie   as  Paul Briançon 1937-03-26
The Life and Loves of Beethoven   as  Karl van Beethoven 1937-01-15
Hélène   as  Pierre Régnier 1936-10-17
Jenny   as  le Dromadaire 1936-09-18
Under Western Eyes   as  Haldin 1936-03-20
Happy Days   as  René 1935-11-08