Jean-Louis Barrault
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Acting Credits
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...
Known For
Filmography
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
2019
as Self (archive footage)
La lumière du lac
1988
as Le vieux
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
That Night of Varennes
1982
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - President
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Midi Première
1975
as Self
Numéro un
1975
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self - Main Guest
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
À bout portant
1968
as Self
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967
as Self
Chappaqua
1966
as Dr. Benoit
Rhinocéros
1965
The Big Scare
1964
Les Fausses Confidences
1964
as Dubois
Pour le plaisir
1964
as Self
The Longest Day
1962
as Father Louis Roulland
Blood on His Sword
1961
as Louis XI
Experiment in Evil
1960
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960
as Mime
Discorama
1959
as Self
Musée Grévin
1958
as Self
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
1958
as Le comte
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
as Fénelon
Venom and Eternity
1952
as Self
With André Gide
1952
as Self
Vagabonds imaginaires
1950
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
La Ronde
1950
as The Poet
Man to Men
1948
as Henri Dunant
La Rose et le réséda
1947
as Narrator (voice)
Children of Paradise
1945
as Baptiste Debureau
Blind Desire
1945
as Michel Kremer
Angel of the Night
1944
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
La Symphonie fantastique
1942
as Hector Berlioz
Mlle. Desiree
1942
as Napoléon Bonaparte
Parade in 7 Nights
1941
as Lucien Ardouin
Montmartre on the Seine
1941
as Michel Courtin
L'Or dans la montagne
1939
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
J'Accuse
1938
Orage
1938
as The African
The Puritan
1938
as Francis Ferriter
Mirages
1938
as Pierre Bonvais
Youth in Revolt
1938
as Armand
The Southern Trail
1938
as Olcott
The Pearls of the Crown
1937
as Bonaparte jeune
À nous deux, madame la vie
1937
as Paul Briançon
Social Police
1937
as Scoppa
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
Street of Shadows
1937
as le client fou
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937
as Karl van Beethoven
Jenny
1936
as le Dromadaire
Under Western Eyes
1936
as Haldin
Hélène
1936
as Pierre Régnier
Happy Days
1935
as René