Jean Le Poulain
Acting
- Born:
- 1924-09-12
- Died:
- 1988-03-01
- Place of birth:
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ferveur - Comédie Française
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Le Malade imaginaire
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Champs-Elysées
Signé Furax
La Dame de chez Maxim
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Volpone
La Puce à l'oreille
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Les deux timides
Le Faiseur
30 millions d'amis
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Le noir te va si bien
Divine
The Red Ibis
Système 2
Midi Première
Around the World in 80 Days
Ursule and Grelu
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
La Nuit des rois
De doux dingues
Le Grand Échiquier
Fric-Frac
Samedi soir
Sortie de secours
Et qu'ça saute !
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Le minotaure
À bout portant
Azaïs
Salut Berthe !
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Interdit au public
At Theatre Tonight
Seventeenth Heaven
Les Gorilles
Un coup dans l'aile
Le Roi du village
The Empire of Night
The Mysteries of Paris
The Deadly Decoy
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Sign of the Lion
Les Livreurs
Sahara on Fire
The Hunchback of Paris
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés