Jean-Claude Brialy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-03-30 (74 years old)

Deathday

2007-05-30

Place of Birth

Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]

Jean-Claude Brialy

Biography

Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors suc...

Acting

1959

1958

The Lovers

as Boy on a ride (uncredited)

1985

Vivement Truffaut

as Self / Corey (archive footage)

1970

Claire's Knee

as Jérôme

1975

Catherine & Co.

as Guillaume

1980

The Lady Banker

as Paul Cisterne

1962

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

as François de Vierne

1964

Male Hunt

as Antoine Monteil

1958

Christine

as Lieutenant Theo Kaiser

1962

The Burning Court

as Marc Desgrez

1974

The Phantom of Liberty

as Mr. Foucault

1958

Handsome Serge

as François

1964

Les Siffleurs

as Jean-Claude Brialy

1961

A Woman Is a Woman

as Émile Récamier

1983

Demon Is on the Island

as Dr Paul Henry Marshall

2002

As Luck Would Have It

as Jean-Pierre Muller

1982

The Night of Varennes

as Monsieur Jacob

1984

1981

Bolero

as Le directeur du Lido

1963

Carom Shots

as Paul Martin

1976

The Judge and the Assassin

as Avocat Villedieu

1983

Deadly Circuit

as Voragine

2000

To the Extreme

as L'avocat

1986

Inspector Lavardin

as Claude Alvarez

1992

Août

as Martin

1964

1967

Anna

as Serge

1987

Grand Guignol

as M. Albert

1961

A Story of Water

as The Young Man

1982

The Girl from Trieste

as Professor Martin

1976

Barocco

as Walt

1995

1985

1987

1977

The Accuser

as Le Rantec

2000

Actors

as Jean-Claude Brialy

1983

Gramps Is in the Resistance

as Le joueur de tennis flagorneur

1999

Kennedy et moi

as Benny Grimaldi

1959

The Big Night

as Scintillone

1961

Wise Guys

as Ronald

1958

Illegal Cargo

as Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné

1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")

1965

The Mandrake

as Ligurio

1981

Cinq-Mars

as l'historien

1967

1962

2019

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2003

The Car Keys

as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

1963

1961

The Lions Are Loose

as Didier Marèze

1986

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as The Japanese Guide

2002

Special Delivery

as Robert Fresnel

1962

Hitch-Hike

as Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses

1966

Our Husbands

as Ottavio Pelagatta

1987

Le Moustachu

as Leroy

2005

Quartier V.I.P.

as Ferdinand

1967

The Oldest Profession

as Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")

1968

Manon 70

as Jean-Paul

1986

Follow My Gaze

as Freddy Langlois

1976

Holy Year

as Pierre Bizet

1957

A Girl in a Pocket

as Jean-Loup

1995

A French Woman

as Arnoult

1986

Le Débutant

as Willy

1974

1963

1983

Cover Up

as Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert

1964

Tonio Kröger

as Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener

1972

A Murder Is a Murder

as Paul Kastner

1962

Sentimental Education

as Frédéric Moreau

1978

Robert et Robert

as Jacques Millet

1957

Anyone Can Kill Me

as Un inspecteur de police

1971

A Season in Hell

as Paul Verlaine

1983

Cap Canaille

as Me Samuel Kebadjan

1956

The Kreutzer Sonata

as Trukhacevskij

1971

Mafia Things

as Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo

2007

Vous êtes de la police ?

as Alfred Lamproie

1956

Fool’s Mate

as Claude

1957

The Tricyclist

as Jean-Claude

1989

1959

The 400 Blows

as Man in Street

1965

Love at Sea

as The Disenchanted Man

2007

Monsieur Max

as Max Jacob

1968

Dear Caroline

as Le comte de Boimussy

1994

1984

1958

Elevator to the Gallows

as Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)

1957

Young Girls Beware

as Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)

1990

No Fear, No Die

as Pierre Ardennes

1957

A Friend of the Family

as Philippe Lemonnier

1960

The Gigolo

as Jacky

1996

Shadow Play

as Rene Sandre

1983

Sarah

as Gabriel Larcange

1985

L'Herbe rouge

as Abbot Gril

1977

Focal Point

as Michel Gaur

1976

Scrambled Eggs

as Brumaire

1970

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel

as Count Anne d'Orgel

1965

The Real Bargain

as The gigolo

1967

1977

Julie pot-de-colle

as Jean-Luc Farlot

1961

Three Faces of Sin

as Laurent Lénaud

1962

La banda Casaroli

as Corrado Minguzzi

1967

Lamiel

as Le comte d'Aubigné

1965

I Knew Her Well

as Dario Marchionni

2004

1959

Eyes of Love

as Pierre Ségur

1987

Malady of Love

as Frédéric

1994

Queen Margot

as Coligny

2015

Hitchcock/Truffaut

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1994

The Monster

as Roccarotta

1990

My New Partner II

as Le banquier

1964

Male Companion

as The Prince

1966

King of Hearts

as Duke of Clover

1987

Levy & Goliath

as Bijou / Delaroche

1983

Edith and Marcel

as Loulou Barrier

1958

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as Eric Torring

2001

Unfair Competition

as nonno Mattia Della Rocca

1992

La Jalousie

as Albert Blondel

1978

The Song of Roland

as Le Seigneur

1958

1987

Maschenka

as Kolin

2001

South Kensington

as Ferdinando

1960

Le Bel Âge

as Jean-Claude

1960

The Army Game

as Capitaine

1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Nurse (uncredited)

2020

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

as Self (archive footage)

1985

The Fourth Power

as PDG de la chaîne

1977

Double Murder

as Van Nijlen

1959

Way of Youth

as Paul Tiercelin

1961

2001

1990

1963

People in Luck

as L'automobiliste (« Le Gros Lot »)

1975

1983

2001

Les Filles à papa

as Robert, dit « Bob »

1962

Greed

as Arthur

1983

Stella

as Roland

1999

Man of My Life

as Lucien Vilner

1957

The Mischief Makers

as The man in the film

1962

Adieu Philippine

as Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)

2020

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1979

1983

1974

1974

Un amour de pluie

as Screenplay

1997

1997

1981

Cinq-Mars

as Director

1973

Closed Shutters

as Director

1973

1972

Églantine

as Writer

1992

La Jalousie

as Director

1981

1972

Églantine

as Director

1973

A Rare Bird

as Director

1981

1959

The 400 Blows

as Thanks

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