Jean-Louis Barrault
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 8, 1910
- Died
- January 22, 1994 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- 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 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Barrault, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Les Renaud-Barrault, bâtisseurs de théâtre
Movie
La lumière du lac
Movie · as Le vieux
To Be Hamlet
Movie · as Self
That Night of Varennes
Movie · as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cérémonie des César
TV · as Self - President · 1 ep
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Midi Première
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Numéro un
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self, Self - Main Guest · 5 eps
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
À bout portant
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Movie · as Self
Chappaqua
Movie · as Dr. Benoit
Rhinocéros
Movie
The Big Scare
Movie
Les Fausses Confidences
Movie · as Dubois
Pour le plaisir
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Longest Day
Movie · as Father Louis Roulland
Blood on His Sword
Movie · as Louis XI
Experiment in Evil
Movie · as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Movie · as Mime
Discorama
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Musée Grévin
Movie · as Self
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
Movie · as Le comte
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Movie · as Fénelon
Venom and Eternity
Movie · as Self
With André Gide
Movie · as Self
Vagabonds imaginaires
Movie · as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
La Ronde
Movie · as The Poet
Man to Men
Movie · as Henri Dunant
La Rose et le réséda
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie · as Bruno
Children of Paradise
Movie · as Baptiste Debureau
Blind Desire
Movie · as Michel Kremer
Angel of the Night
Movie · as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
La Symphonie fantastique
Movie · as Hector Berlioz
Mlle. Desiree
Movie · as Napoléon Bonaparte
Parade in 7 Nights
Movie · as Lucien Ardouin
Montmartre on the Seine
Movie · as Michel Courtin
L'Or dans la montagne
Movie · as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
J'Accuse
Movie
Orage
Movie · as The African
The Puritan
Movie · as Francis Ferriter
Mirages
Movie · as Pierre Bonvais
Youth in Revolt
Movie · as Armand
The Southern Trail
Movie · as Olcott
The Pearls of the Crown
Movie · as Bonaparte jeune
À nous deux, madame la vie
Movie · as Paul Briançon
Social Police
Movie · as Scoppa
Bizarre, Bizarre
Movie · as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
Street of Shadows
Movie · as le client fou
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Movie · as Karl van Beethoven
Jenny
Movie · as le Dromadaire
Under Western Eyes
Movie · as Haldin
Hélène
Movie · as Pierre Régnier
Happy Days
Movie · as René