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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 8, 1910
Died
January 22, 1994
Place of Birth
Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Also Known As
- Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
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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
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Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
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Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
2019
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Le vieux
La lumière du lac
1988
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Self
To Be Hamlet
1985
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Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
The Night of Varennes
1982
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Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
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Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
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Self
Numéro un
1975
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Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
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Self
Midi Première
1975
Credits
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
2020
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Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
as Self (archive footage)
2019
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La lumière du lac
as Le vieux
1988
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To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
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The Night of Varennes
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
1982
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🎬
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1978
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30 millions d'amis
as Self
1976
5.8
Numéro un
as Self
1975
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
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Midi Première
as Self
1975
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Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
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Le Grand Échiquier
as Self - Main Guest
1972
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Samedi soir
as Self
1971
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À bout portant
as Self
1968
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self
1967
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Chappaqua
as Dr. Benoit
1966
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Rhinocéros
1965
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The Big Scare
1964
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Les Fausses Confidences
as Dubois
1964
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The Longest Day
as Father Louis Roulland
1962
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Blood on His Sword
as Louis XI
1961
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Experiment in Evil
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
1960
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Mime
1960
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Discorama
as Self
1959
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La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
as Le comte
1958
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Musée Grévin
as Self
1958
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Fénelon
1954
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With André Gide
as Self
1952
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Venom and Eternity
as Self
1952
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La Ronde
as The Poet
1950
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Vagabonds imaginaires
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
1950
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Man to Men
as Henri Dunant
1948
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La Rose et le réséda
as Narrator (voice)
1947
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Blind Desire
as Michel Kremer
1945
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Children of Paradise
as Baptiste Debureau
1945
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Angel of the Night
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
1944
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La Symphonie fantastique
as Hector Berlioz
1942
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Montmartre on the Seine
as Michel Courtin
1941
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Parade in 7 Nights
as Lucien Ardouin
1941
4.5
Mlle. Desiree
as Napoléon Bonaparte
1941
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L'Or dans la montagne
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
1939
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The Southern Trail
as Olcott
1938
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Youth in Revolt
as Armand
1938
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Mirages
as Pierre Bonvais
1938
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I Accuse
1938
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The Puritan
as Francis Ferriter
1938
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Orage
as The African
1938
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Bizarre, Bizarre
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
1937
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The Pearls of the Crown
as Bonaparte jeune
1937
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Street of Shadows
as le client fou
1937
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Social Police
as Scoppa
1937
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À nous deux, madame la vie
as Paul Briançon
1937
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Karl van Beethoven
1937
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Hélène
as Pierre Régnier
1936
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Jenny
as le Dromadaire
1936
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Under Western Eyes
as Haldin
1936
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Happy Days
as René
1935
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