Jean Le Poulain
Age: N/A | From: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Most Famous Work
At Theatre Tonight
(1966) Stage Director
Le noir te va si bien
(1975) Director
Le Malade imaginaire
(1986) Director
Interdit au public
(1966) Director
Fric-Frac
(1971) Stage Director
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
(1982) Director
Pétrus
(1974) Stage Director
Les deux timides
(1978) Stage DirectorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Argan | |
| 1982 | Monsieur Perrichon | |
| Self | ||
| 1981 | Klakmuf | |
| le Général Petypon du Grêlé | ||
| 1978 | Volpone | |
| Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche | ||
| Lucien Beix | ||
| Thibaudier | ||
| 1977 | M. Mercadet | |
| 1976 | Self | |
| 1975 | John | |
| Bobovitch | ||
| Margos | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1973 | Le frère Albaret | |
| Malvolio | ||
| 1972 | Paul Lecuyer | |
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Jo | |
| Self | ||
| 1970 | Harpagon | |
| Don Pedro | ||
| Monsieur Jourdain | ||
| Gruson | ||
| 1969 | Michou | |
| 1968 | Self | |
| Le baron Wurtz | ||
| Beau Papa | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Hervé Montagne | |
| Hervé Montagne | ||
| Le baron Wurtz | ||
| L'homme à la voiture | ||
| 1964 | The stage director | |
| 1963 | Levaillant | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | David Balkis, the Emperor of the night | |
| The schoolmaster | ||
| N/A | ||
| le préfet de police | ||
| Le Clochard | ||
| 1961 | Professor Alexis Schmutz | |
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | Peyrolles | |
| 1958 | M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave | |
| 1948 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Director | |
| 1986 | Director | |
| 1982 | Director | |
| 1978 | Stage Director | |
| 1975 | Director | |
| 1974 | Stage Director | |
| 1973 | Stage Director | |
| 1972 | Stage Director | |
| 1971 | Stage Director | |
| 1968 | Stage Director | |
| 1966 | Director | |
| Stage Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
