Jean-Louis Barrault
Acting
Born September 8, 1910 · Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
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 member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de sati…
Known For · 40 titles
Midi Première
Ciné regards
Le Grand Échiquier
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Numéro un
Discorama
30 millions d'amis
Samedi soir
Cérémonie des César
À bout portant
The Longest Day
Pour le plaisir
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Children of Paradise
That Night of Varennes
Man to Men
Royal Affairs in Versailles
To Be Hamlet
Mirages
La Ronde
Morceaux de Cannes
Bizarre, Bizarre
Chappaqua
Experiment in Evil
Montmartre on the Seine
With André Gide
Orage
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
L'Or dans la montagne
Blind Desire
La Rose et le réséda
Vagabonds imaginaires
The Pearls of the Crown
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Venom and Eternity
Street of Shadows
Hélène
La lumière du lac
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Jenny