Jean Le Poulain

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-09-12 (64 years old)

Deathday

1988-03-01

Place of Birth

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Jean Le Poulain

Biography

Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director. He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was then recruited by Jean Vilar at the Théâtre national populaire and in 1952 he appeared with Gérard Philipe in The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He began as an actor both in theatre and cinema in 1947 and often appeared on the regular theatre show of the French television Au théâtre ce soir created in 1966. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1978, where he becam...

Acting

1978

Volpone

as Volpone

1962

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

as Le préfet de police

1975

The Red Ibis

as Margos

1975

Divine

as Bobovitch

1962

The Mysteries of Paris

as The schoolmaster

1964

Les Gorilles

as The stage director

1981

Signé Furax

as Klakmuf

1971

1959

1958

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave

1962

The Empire of Night

as David Balkis, Emperor of the night

1961

Les Livreurs

as Professor Alexis Schmutz

1962

The Deadly Decoy

as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'

1970

1981

La Dame de chez Maxim

as le Général Petypon du Grêlé

1968

Salut Berthe !

as Step Dad

1972

De doux dingues

as Paul Lecuyer

1977

Le Faiseur

as M. Mercadet

1982

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

as Monsieur Perrichon

1973

La Nuit des rois

as Malvolio

1978

La Puce à l'oreille

as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche

1968

Azaïs

as Le baron Wurtz

1978

Les deux timides

as Thibaudier

1966

Interdit au public

as Hervé Montagne

1969

Le minotaure

as Michou

1966

Seventeenth Heaven

as L'homme à la voiture

1970

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

as Monsieur Jourdain

1962

Sign of the Lion

as Le Clochard

1970

Et qu'ça saute !

as Don Pedro

1963

Un coup dans l'aile

as Levaillant

1975

Production

1971

Fric-Frac

as Stage Director

1972

Huit femmes

as Stage Director

1974

Pétrus

as Stage Director

1973

La Nuit des rois

as Stage Director

1978

Les deux timides

as Stage Director

1975

1966

1968

Azaïs

as Stage Director

1986

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