Jean-Louis Barrault
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1910-09-08 (84 years old)
Deathday
1994-01-22
Place of Birth
Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Also known As
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault
Jean-Louis 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 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 hi...
Acting
2020
as Self (archive footage)
1960
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
1985
as Self
1945
as Baptiste Debureau
1939
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
1962
as Father Louis Roulland
1966
as Dr. Benoit
1982
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
1952
as Self
1954
as Fénelon
1937
as Bonaparte jeune
1937
as Paul Briançon
1937
as Scoppa
1938
1942
as Hector Berlioz
1941
as Lucien Ardouin
1936
as le Dromadaire
1944
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
1950
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
1937
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
1961
as Louis XI
1937
as le client fou
1952
as Self
1964
1941
as Napoléon Bonaparte
1936
as Haldin
1950
as The Poet
1938
as The African
1937
as Karl van Beethoven
1938
as Francis Ferriter
1948
as Henri Dunant
1960
1988
as Le vieux
1967
1941
as Michel Courtin
1938
as Pierre Bonvais
1935
as René
1938
as Armand
1936
as Pierre Régnier
1958
as Self
1938
as Olcott
1947
as Narrator (voice)
1945
as Michel Kremer
1958
as Le comte
1964
as Dubois
Production
1962
as Writer
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