- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 12, 1924
- Place of Birth
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Died
- March 1, 1988
Jean Le Poulain
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.
Filmography
movieLe Saut du lit
1988 · Stage Director
Ferveur - Comédie Française
movieFerveur - Comédie Française
1987 · Self
movieLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986
movieLe Malade imaginaire
1986 · Argan, Stage Director
movieLe Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982 · Monsieur Perrichon, Stage Director
tvChamps-Elysées
1982 · Self
movieSigné Furax
1981 · Klakmuf
movieLa Dame de chez Maxim
1981 · le Général Petypon du Grêlé
movieI've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979 · Drouillard
movieVolpone
1978 · Volpone
movieLa Puce à l'oreille
1978 · Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
movieMiam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978 · Lucien Beix
movieLes deux timides
1978 · Thibaudier, Stage Director
movieLe Faiseur
1977 · M. Mercadet
tv30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
tvLe Tour du monde en 80 jours
1975 · Phileas Fogg
movieLe noir te va si bien
1975 · John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne, Stage Director
movieDivine
1975 · Bobovitch
movieThe Red Ibis
1975 · Margos
Système 2
tvSystème 2
1975 · Self
tvMidi Première
1975 · Self
Around the World in 80 Days
movieAround the World in 80 Days
1975 · Phileas Fogg
moviePétrus
1974 · Stage Director
movieUrsule and Grelu
1974
movieThe Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973 · Brother Albaret
movieLa Nuit des rois
1973 · Malvolio, Stage Director
movieHuit femmes
1972 · Stage Director
movieDe doux dingues
1972 · Paul Lecuyer
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
movieFric-Frac
1971 · Jo, Stage Director
Samedi soir
tvSamedi soir
1971 · Self
movieSortie de secours
1970 · Harpagon
movieEt qu'ça saute !
1970 · Don Pedro
movieLe Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970 · Monsieur Jourdain
movieShe Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970 · Gruson
movieLe minotaure
1969 · Michou
tvÀ bout portant
1968 · Self
movieAzaïs
1968 · Le baron Wurtz, Stage Director
movieSalut Berthe !
1968 · Step Dad
movieA Strange Kind of Colonel
1968 · Pastor
movieInterdit au public
1966 · Hervé Montagne, Stage Director
tvAt Theatre Tonight
1966 · Hervé Montagne, Le baron Wurtz, Stage Director
movieSeventeenth Heaven
1966 · L'homme à la voiture
movieLes Gorilles
1964 · The stage director
movieUn coup dans l'aile
1963 · Levaillant
movieLe Roi du village
1963
movieThe Empire of Night
1962 · David Balkis, Emperor of the night
movieThe Mysteries of Paris
1962 · The schoolmaster
movieThe Deadly Decoy
1962 · Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
movieArsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962 · Le préfet de police
movieSign of the Lion
1962 · Le Clochard
movieLes Livreurs
1961 · Professor Alexis Schmutz
movieSahara on Fire
1961
movieThe Hunchback of Paris
1959 · Peyrolles
movieLe Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1958 · M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
movieLes Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948