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person_profile-Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault Died at age: 83

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Sep 08, 1910

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Jan 22, 1994

Biography of

Jean-Louis Barrault

    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.

    Over his career, he acted in nearly 50 movies including Les beaux jours, Jenny, L'Or dans la Montagne and Sous les Yeux d'occident.

    In 1940, he married the actress Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America.

    He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83. Jean-Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.

    Jean-Louis Barrault, Reflections on the Theatre:

        "In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one's own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!"

    Barrault from Melinda Camber Porter's Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture:

        "When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn."

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Filmography of

Jean-Louis Barrault

Found 36 Movies in total

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

La lumière du lac

Le vieux ( Actor )

... 1988

To Be Hamlet

Jean-Louis Barrault ( Actor )

... 1985

The Night of Varennes

Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne ( Actor )

... 1982

Chappaqua

Dr. Benoit ( Actor )

... 1966

The Big Scare

Douve ( Actor )

... 1964

The Longest Day

Father Louis Roulland ( Actor )

... 1962

Blood on His Sword

Louis XI ( Actor )

... 1961

Experiment in Evil

Dr. Cordelier / Opale ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1954

With André Gide

Self ( Actor )

... 1952

Venom and Eternity

Self ( Actor )

... 1952

La Ronde

The Poet ( Actor )

... 1950

Blind Desire

Michel Kremer ( Actor )

... 1945

Children of Paradise

Baptiste Debureau ( Actor )

... 1945

Angel of the Night

Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur ( Actor )

... 1944

Montmartre on the Seine

Michel Courtin ( Actor )

... 1941

Parade in 7 Nights

Lucien Ardouin ( Actor )

... 1941

Mlle. Desiree

Napoléon Bonaparte ( Actor )

... 1941

The Southern Trail

Olcott ( Actor )

... 1938

Youth in Revolt

Armand ( Actor )

... 1938

Orage

L'Africain ( Actor )

... 1938

Mirages

Pierre Bonvais ( Actor )

... 1938

... 1938

The Puritan

Francis Ferriter ( Actor )

... 1938

Bizarre, Bizarre

William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers ( Actor )

... 1937

The Pearls of the Crown

Bonaparte jeune ( Actor )

... 1937

Street of Shadows

le client fou ( Actor )

... 1937

Social Police

Scoppa ( Actor )

... 1937

À nous deux, madame la vie

Paul Briançon ( Actor )

... 1937

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Karl van Beethoven ( Actor )

... 1937

Hélène

Pierre Régnier ( Actor )

... 1936

Jenny

le Dromadaire ( Actor )

... 1936

Under Western Eyes

Haldin ( Actor )

... 1936

Happy Days

René ( Actor )

... 1935