Jean-Louis Barrault
Actor
Born September 8, 1910 in Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
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 his reputation.
Filmography
Morceaux de Cannes
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Self (archive footage)
La lumière du lac
Le vieux
To Be Hamlet
Self
That Night of Varennes
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Cérémonie des César
Self - President
30 millions d'amis
Self
Numéro un
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Midi Première
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
À bout portant
Self
Chappaqua
Dr. Benoit
Rhinocéros
The Big Scare
Les Fausses Confidences
Dubois
The Longest Day
Father Louis Roulland
Blood on His Sword
Louis XI
Experiment in Evil
Dr. Cordelier / Opale
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Mime
Discorama
Self
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
Le comte
Musée Grévin
Self
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Fénelon
With André Gide
Self
Venom and Eternity
Self
La Ronde
The Poet
Vagabonds imaginaires
Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Man to Men
Henri Dunant
Blind Desire
Michel Kremer
Children of Paradise
Baptiste Debureau
Angel of the Night
Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
Mlle. Desiree
Napoléon Bonaparte
La Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
Montmartre on the Seine
Michel Courtin
Parade in 7 Nights
Lucien Ardouin
L'Or dans la montagne
Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
The Southern Trail
Olcott
Youth in Revolt
Armand
Mirages
Pierre Bonvais
I Accuse
The Puritan
Francis Ferriter
Orage
The African
Bizarre, Bizarre
William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
The Pearls of the Crown
Bonaparte jeune
Street of Shadows
le client fou
Social Police
Scoppa
À nous deux, madame la vie
Paul Briançon
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Karl van Beethoven
Hélène
Pierre Régnier
Jenny
le Dromadaire
Under Western Eyes
Haldin
Happy Days
René