Jean Poiret

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-08-17 (66 years old)

Deathday

1992-03-14

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Poiret

Biography

Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Poiret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1980

The Last Metro

as Jean-Loup Cottins

1979

The Other One's Mug

as Jean-Louis Constant

1962

The Dance

as Vieux

1985

Cop au Vin

as Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

1958

1991

Sisi/Last Minute

as Herzog Max in Bayern

1970

Atlantic Wall

as Armand, agent double avec les Allemands, chef de la résistance

1959

Oh! What a Mambo

as L'inspecteur Sapin

1986

Inspector Lavardin

as Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

1986

I Hate Actors

as Orlando Higgins

1987

1963

The Virgins

as Banker Marchaix

1988

The Seasons of Pleasure

as Bernard Germain

1956

That Naughty Girl

as Inspector Rémy

1959

La Malle volante

as M. Grapillon

1984

The Seventh Target

as Jean Michelis

1967

The Men in the Family

as Bernard Le Gall

1956

Murderers and Thieves

as Philippe d'Artois, le riche oisif

2023

Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles

as Self / Georges (archive footage)

1953

Le Gang des pianos à bretelles

as The presenter of 'La nuit brune' (uncredited)

1966

Your Money or Your Life

as Lucien Pélépan

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as L'avocat de Michel (segment "Le Divorce"))

1954

What the East Wind Saw

as Charlles-Auguste

1962

It's Not My Business

as Jean Duroc, le directeur de la petite troupe de théâtre

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as Le premier policier / Policeman

1968

La Coquine

as Albino, l'instituteur

1962

The Four Truths

as Renard (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")

1959

You Have Nothing to Declare?

as Robert de Trivelin

1956

Life is beautiful

as le joueur de maracas

1992

Sup de fric

as Cyril Dujardin

1967

Pour avoir Adrienne

as Le jeune homme

1956

Mon bébé

as William Harrisson

1962

How to Succeed in Love

as Bernard Monod

1968

The Big Wash

as Jean-Michel Lavalette

1961

Auguste

as Georges Flower

1964

1965

Under Your Hat

as Philippe / Monsieur Paul

1965

The Real Bargain

as Grégoire

1965

Le petit monstre

as The Godfather

1959

The Bureaucrats

as René Lahrier

1970

1959

1967

1991

Rumeurs

as Alain Margolf

1988

La Petite Amie

as Martin Morel

1959

Nina

as Gérard Blanville

1957

Adorables démons

as Julien Willis Jr

1963

1964

Jaloux comme un tigre

as le docteur Raymond

1961

On purge bébé

as Bastien Follavoine

1967

La Parisienne

as Lafont

1965

1957

1956

1961

My Wife Is a Panther

as Psychiatrist

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Tales of Paris

as Jean-Pierre Leroy (segment "Antonia")

1973

Production

1991

Rumeurs

as Adaptation

1979

The Other One's Mug

as Screenplay

1978

La Cage aux Folles

as Screenplay

1978

La Cage aux Folles

as Theatre Play

1980

1980

1973

2008

Tailleur pour dames

as Adaptation

1979

1992

Le Zèbre

as Director

1992

Le Zèbre

as Scenario Writer

1992

Le Zèbre

as Adaptation

2023

1984

Happy Easter

as Writer

2002

1983

Frohe Ostern

as Writer

1979

1985

1993

Tailleur pour Dames

as Adaptation

1996

The Birdcage

as Original Film Writer

1996

The Birdcage

as Theatre Play

2011

1985

Tailleur pour dames

as Adaptation

2014

Joyeuses Pâques

as Theatre Play

1984

Happy Easter

as Original Story

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