Jean-Louis Barrault
Birthday
1910/09/08
Day of death
1994/01/22 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Also know as
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault
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...Read more
Acting
(2020) Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
(1960) Experiment in Evil
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
(1985) To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1945) Children of Paradise
as Baptiste Debureau
(1939) L'Or dans la montagne
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
(1962) The Longest Day
as Father Louis Roulland
(1966) Chappaqua
as Dr. Benoit
(1982) The Night of Varennes
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
(1951) Venom and Eternity
as Self
(1954) Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Fénelon
(1937) The Pearls of the Crown
as Bonaparte jeune
(1937) À nous deux, madame la vie
as Paul Briançon
(1937) Social Police
as Scoppa
(1938) I Accuse
as ---
(1942) La Symphonie fantastique
as Hector Berlioz
(1941) Parade in 7 Nights
as Lucien Ardouin
(1936) Jenny
as le Dromadaire
(1944) Angel of the Night
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
(1950) Vagabonds imaginaires
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
(1937) Bizarre, Bizarre
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
(1961) Blood on His Sword
as Louis XI
(1937) Street of Shadows
as le client fou
(1952) With André Gide
as Self
(1964) The Big Scare
as ---
(1941) Mlle. Desiree
as Napoléon Bonaparte
(1936) Under Western Eyes
as Haldin
(1950) La Ronde
as The Poet
(1938) Orage
as L'Africain
(1937) The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Karl van Beethoven
(1938) The Puritan
as Francis Ferriter
(1948) Man to Men
as Henri Dunant
(1960) The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as ---
(1988) La lumière du lac
as Le vieux
(1967) The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self
(1941) Montmartre on the Seine
as Michel Courtin
(1938) Mirages
as Pierre Bonvais
(1935) Happy Days
as René
(1936) Hélène
as Pierre Régnier
(1938) Youth in Revolt
as Armand
(1958) Musée Grévin
as Self
(1938) The Southern Trail
as Olcott
(1947) La Rose et le réséda
as Narrator (voice)
(1945) Blind Desire
as Michel Kremer
(1975) Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
(1975) Midi Première
as Self
(1968) À bout portant
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
(1975) Numéro un
as Self
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1959) Discorama
as Self
(1976) 30 millions d'amis
as Self
(1971) Samedi soir
as Self