Jean-Louis Barrault
Born in Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France — Sep 08 1910• Died Jan 22 1994
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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 producti…
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Midi Première
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Numéro un
Self
30 millions d'amis
Self
À bout portant
Self
The Longest Day
Father Louis Roulland
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Children of Paradise
Baptiste Debureau
To Be Hamlet
Self
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Fénelon
Experiment in Evil
Dr. Cordelier / Opale
Chappaqua
Dr. Benoit
I Accuse
Blood on His Sword
Louis XI
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
That Night of Varennes
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Bizarre, Bizarre
William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
With André Gide
Self
La Ronde
The Poet
Jenny
le Dromadaire
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Mime
Montmartre on the Seine
Michel Courtin
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Self
Musée Grévin
Self
La Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
Venom and Eternity
Self
Parade in 7 Nights
Lucien Ardouin
Under Western Eyes
Haldin
Happy Days
René
Rhinocéros
Morceaux de Cannes
The Big Scare
Street of Shadows
le client fou
The Pearls of the Crown
Bonaparte jeune
Prosessen
Writing
Orage
The African
À nous deux, madame la vie
Paul Briançon
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Karl van Beethoven
Man to Men
Henri Dunant
Youth in Revolt
Armand
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Self (archive footage)
Vagabonds imaginaires
Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Mirages
Pierre Bonvais
Hélène
Pierre Régnier
La lumière du lac
Le vieux
Les Fausses Confidences
Dubois
The Southern Trail
Olcott
Mlle. Desiree
Napoléon Bonaparte
Angel of the Night
Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
Social Police
Scoppa
Blind Desire
Michel Kremer
L'Or dans la montagne
Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
The Puritan
Francis Ferriter
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
Le comte
La Rose et le réséda
Narrator (voice)