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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 12, 1924
Place of Birth:
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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Jean Le Poulain
Biography
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director.
He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was then recruited by Jean Vilar at the Théâtre national populaire and in 1952 he appeared with Gérard Philipe in The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He began as an actor both in theatre and cinema in 1947 and often appeared on the regular theatre show of the French television Au théâtre ce soir created in 1966. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1978, where he became sociétaire in 1980, then General administrator from septembre 1986 until his death, where he portrayed Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Le Malade imaginaire | Argan |
| 1982 | Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon | Monsieur Perrichon |
| 1981 | Signé Furax | Klakmuf |
| 1981 | La Dame de chez Maxim | le Général Petypon du Grêlé |
| 1979 | I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs | Drouillard |
| 1978 | Volpone | Volpone |
| 1978 | La Puce à l'oreille | Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche |
| 1978 | Les deux timides | Thibaudier |
| 1978 | Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires | Lucien Beix |
| 1977 | Le Faiseur | M. Mercadet |
| 1975 | The Red Ibis | Margos |
| 1975 | Divine | Bobovitch |
| 1975 | Le noir te va si bien | John |
| 1975 | Around the World in 80 Days | Phileas Fogg |
| 1973 | The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot | Brother Albaret |
| 1973 | La Nuit des rois | Malvolio |
| 1972 | De doux dingues | Paul Lecuyer |
| 1971 | Fric-Frac | Jo |
| 1970 | She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks | Gruson |
| 1970 | Sortie de secours | Harpagon |
| 1970 | Le Bourgeois gentilhomme | Monsieur Jourdain |
| 1970 | Et qu'ça saute ! | Don Pedro |
| 1969 | Le minotaure | Michou |
| 1968 | A Strange Kind of Colonel | |
| 1968 | Salut Berthe ! | Step Dad |
| 1968 | Azaïs | Le baron Wurtz |
| 1966 | Interdit au public | Hervé Montagne |
| 1966 | Seventeenth Heaven | L'homme à la voiture |
| 1964 | Les Gorilles | The stage director |
| 1963 | Le roi du village | |
| 1963 | Un coup dans l'aile | Levaillant |
| 1962 | Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin | Le préfet de police |
| 1962 | The Mysteries of Paris | The schoolmaster |
| 1962 | The Empire of Night | David Balkis, Emperor of the night |
| 1962 | The Deadly Decoy | Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque' |
| 1962 | Sign of the Lion | Le Clochard |
| 1961 | Les Livreurs | Professor Alexis Schmutz |
| 1961 | Sahara on Fire | |
| 1959 | The Hunchback of Paris | Peyrolles |
| 1958 | Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon | M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave |
| 1948 | Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self |
| 1976 | 30 millions d'amis | Self |
| 1975 | Midi Première | Self |
| 1975 | Système 2 | Self |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1968 | À bout portant | Self |
| 1966 | At Theatre Tonight | Hervé Montagne |
| 1966 | At Theatre Tonight | Le baron Wurtz |