Personal Info
Known Credits
43
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1910-09-08 (115 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Also Known For
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Biography
Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le Vésinet, Yvelines – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a ...
Known For
Acting
2020 --
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
| Self (archive footage)
1988 --
La lumière du lac
| Le vieux
1985 --
To Be Hamlet
| Self
1982 --
The Night of Varennes
| Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
1967 --
The Birth of Children of Paradise
| Self
1966 --
Chappaqua
| Dr. Benoit
1964 --
The Big Scare
|
1962 --
The Longest Day
| Father Louis Roulland
1961 --
Blood on His Sword
| Louis XI
1960 --
Experiment in Evil
| Dr. Cordelier / Opale
1960 --
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
|
1958 --
Musée Grévin
| Self
1954 --
Royal Affairs in Versailles
| Fénelon
1952 --
With André Gide
| Self
1952 --
Venom and Eternity
| Self
1950 --
La Ronde
| The Poet
1950 --
Vagabonds imaginaires
| Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
1948 --
Man to Men
| Henri Dunant
1947 --
La Rose et le réséda
| Narrator (voice)
1945 --
Blind Desire
| Michel Kremer
1945 --
Children of Paradise
| Baptiste Debureau
1944 --
Angel of the Night
| Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
1942 --
La Symphonie fantastique
| Hector Berlioz
1941 --
Montmartre on the Seine
| Michel Courtin
1941 --
Parade in 7 Nights
| Lucien Ardouin
1941 --
Mlle. Desiree
| Napoléon Bonaparte
1939 --
L'Or dans la montagne
| Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
1938 --
The Southern Trail
| Olcott
1938 --
Youth in Revolt
| Armand
1938 --
Orage
| L'Africain
1938 --
Mirages
| Pierre Bonvais
1938 --
I Accuse
|
1938 --
The Puritan
| Francis Ferriter
1937 --
Bizarre, Bizarre
| William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
1937 --
The Pearls of the Crown
| Bonaparte jeune
1937 --
Street of Shadows
| le client fou
1937 --
Social Police
| Scoppa
1937 --
À nous deux, madame la vie
| Paul Briançon
1937 --
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
| Karl van Beethoven
1936 --
Hélène
| Pierre Régnier
1936 --
Jenny
| le Dromadaire
1936 --
Under Western Eyes
| Haldin
1935 --
Happy Days
| René