Jean Le Poulain
Actor
Born September 12, 1924 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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 became sociétaire in 1980, then General administrator from septembre 1986 until his death, where he portrayed Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière.
Filmography
Le Saut du lit
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Le Malade imaginaire
Argan
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Monsieur Perrichon
Champs-Elysées
Self
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
La Dame de chez Maxim
le Général Petypon du Grêlé
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
Volpone
Volpone
La Puce à l'oreille
Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Lucien Beix
Les deux timides
Thibaudier
Le Faiseur
M. Mercadet
30 millions d'amis
Self
Le noir te va si bien
John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
Divine
Bobovitch
The Red Ibis
Margos
Midi Première
Self
Pétrus
Ursule and Grelu
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
La Nuit des rois
Malvolio
Huit femmes
De doux dingues
Paul Lecuyer
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Fric-Frac
Jo
Sortie de secours
Harpagon
Et qu'ça saute !
Don Pedro
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Gruson
Le minotaure
Michou
À bout portant
Self
Azaïs
Le baron Wurtz
Salut Berthe !
Step Dad
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Pastor
Interdit au public
Hervé Montagne
At Theatre Tonight
Hervé Montagne
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
Les Gorilles
The stage director
Un coup dans l'aile
Levaillant
Le Roi du village
The Empire of Night
David Balkis, Emperor of the night
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
The Deadly Decoy
Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
Les Livreurs
Professor Alexis Schmutz
Sahara on Fire
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés