Jean-Louis Barrault
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
Credits
- 2020 · Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · La lumière du lac as Le vieux
- 1985 · To Be Hamlet as Self
- 1982 · The Night of Varennes as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
- 1978 · Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self - Main Guest
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1968 · À bout portant as Self
- 1967 · The Birth of Children of Paradise as Self
- 1966 · Chappaqua as Dr. Benoit
- 1964 · The Big Scare as
- 1962 · The Longest Day as Father Louis Roulland
- 1961 · Blood on His Sword as Louis XI
- 1960 · Experiment in Evil as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
- 1960 · The Dialogue of the Carmelites as
- 1959 · Discorama as Self
- 1958 · Musée Grévin as Self
- 1954 · Royal Affairs in Versailles as Fénelon
- 1952 · With André Gide as Self
- 1951 · Venom and Eternity as Self
- 1950 · La Ronde as The Poet
- 1950 · Vagabonds imaginaires as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
- 1948 · Man to Men as Henri Dunant
- 1947 · La Rose et le réséda as Narrator (voice)
- 1945 · Blind Desire as Michel Kremer
- 1945 · Children of Paradise as Baptiste Debureau
- 1944 · Angel of the Night as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
- 1942 · La Symphonie fantastique as Hector Berlioz
- 1941 · Montmartre on the Seine as Michel Courtin
- 1941 · Parade in 7 Nights as Lucien Ardouin
- 1941 · Mlle. Desiree as Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1939 · L'Or dans la montagne as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
- 1938 · The Southern Trail as Olcott
- 1938 · Youth in Revolt as Armand
- 1938 · Orage as L'Africain
- 1938 · Mirages as Pierre Bonvais
- 1938 · I Accuse as
- 1938 · The Puritan as Francis Ferriter
- 1937 · Bizarre, Bizarre as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
- 1937 · The Pearls of the Crown as Bonaparte jeune
- 1937 · Street of Shadows as le client fou
- 1937 · Social Police as Scoppa
- 1937 · À nous deux, madame la vie as Paul Briançon
- 1937 · The Life and Loves of Beethoven as Karl van Beethoven
- 1936 · Hélène as Pierre Régnier
- 1936 · Jenny as le Dromadaire
- 1936 · Under Western Eyes as Haldin
- 1935 · Happy Days as René