Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting
- Born:
- 1933-03-30
- Died:
- 2007-05-30
- Place of birth:
- Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Biography
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Filmography
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Archives secrètes
A Night at the Opera
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Jean Gabin intime
Vous êtes de la police ?
Arletty, Lady Paname
Monsieur Max
On n'est pas couché
The Accursed Kings
Quartier V.I.P.
Quoi? L'éternité.
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
People : Jet Set 2
Le Président Ferrare
The Car Keys
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
As Luck Would Have It
Special Delivery
South Kensington
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Unfair Competition
Les Filles à papa
The Blue Bicycle
To the Extreme
Actors
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Kennedy et moi
Man of My Life
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Vivement dimanche
The Count of Monte Cristo
La Grande Béké
Shadow Play
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
A French Woman
Son of Gascogne
One Hundred and One Nights
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
The Monster
Queen Margot
Colpo di coda
Coucou c'est nous !
La Jalousie
Août
Tous les garçons...
Ferbac
Les Nuls, l'émission
No Fear, No Die
Stars 90
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Fort Boyard
My New Partner II
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Comédie d'été
The Innocents
Malady of Love
Sacrée soirée
Matin Bonheur
Le Moustachu
Maschenka
Grand Guignol
Levy & Goliath
Le Débutant
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Follow My Gaze
Inspector Lavardin
An Impudent Girl
Marriage of the Century
The Fourth Power
L'Herbe rouge
Vivement Truffaut
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Pinot simple-flic
Père Noël et fils
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Cover Up
Stella
Sarah
Demon Is on the Island
Deadly Circuit
Cap Canaille
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Edith and Marcel
The Girl from Trieste
Mozart
That Night of Varennes
Champs-Elysées
Bolero
Cinq-Mars
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin joue et perd
The Lady Banker
Swimming Instructor
The Song of Roland
Robert et Robert
Ciné regards
Double Murder
Focal Point
The Accuser
Julie pot-de-colle
Fan School
Barocco
Holy Year
Cérémonie des César
Scrambled Eggs
Un animal doué de déraison
The Judge and the Assassin
30 millions d'amis
Catherine & Co.
Numéro un
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Like a Pot of Strawberries
The Phantom of Liberty
Loving in the Rain
A Murder Is a Murder
Midi trente
Le Grand Échiquier
A Season in Hell
Mafia Things
Samedi soir
Côté cour, côté champs
Claire's Knee
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
À bout portant
Anna
The Bride Wore Black
Manon 70
Dear Caroline
Operation San Pietro
Lamiel
The Oldest Profession
Shock Troops
King of Hearts
Our Husbands
I Knew Her Well
The Mandrake
Love at Sea
How Not to Rob a Department Store
The Real Bargain
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Les Siffleurs
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Male Companion
Pour le plaisir
Circle of Love
Male Hunt
Tonio Kröger
How to Make a French Dish
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Carom Shots
People in Luck
The Sword and the Balance
Adieu Philippine
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
La banda Casaroli
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Sentimental Education
Fiancés on the Bridge
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Burning Court
Hitch-Hike
The Seven Deadly Sins
Greed
A Very Private Affair
Paris Belongs to Us
Famous Love Affairs
The Lions Are Loose
Three Faces of Sin
A Woman Is a Woman
Wise Guys
A Story of Water
The Army Game
The Gigolo
Le Bel Âge
Eyes of Love
The Big Night
Way of Youth
The 400 Blows
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
The Cousins
Discorama
Le Beau Serge
Christine
The Mischief Makers
The Lovers
Et ta sœur…
School for Coquettes
Illegal Cargo
Elevator to the Gallows
The Overworked
Anyone Can Kill Me
The Tricyclist
A Girl in a Pocket
Young Girls Beware
A Friend of the Family
Fool’s Mate
Cinépanorama
The Kreutzer Sonata
Reflets de Cannes