Name
Jean Le Poulain
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1924-09-12
Deathday
1988-03-01 (64 years old)
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.
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Known For
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- 1978 Volpone as Volpone
- 1962 Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin as Le préfet de police
- 1975 The Red Ibis as Margos
- 1975 Divine as Bobovitch
- 1948 Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
- 1962 The Mysteries of Paris as The schoolmaster
- 1964 Les Gorilles as The stage director
- 1975 Le noir te va si bien as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
- 1981 Signé Furax as Klakmuf
- 1970 She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks as Gruson
- 1971 Fric-Frac as Jo
- 1959 The Hunchback of Paris as Peyrolles
- 1958 Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
- 1962 The Empire of Night as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
- 1961 Les Livreurs as Professor Alexis Schmutz
- 1962 The Deadly Decoy as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
- 1963 Le Roi du village
- 1973 The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Brother Albaret
- 1961 Sahara on Fire
- 1970 Sortie de secours as Harpagon
- 1968 A Strange Kind of Colonel as Pastor
- 1981 La Dame de chez Maxim as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
- 1968 Salut Berthe ! as Step Dad
- 1972 De doux dingues as Paul Lecuyer
- 1977 Le Faiseur as M. Mercadet
- 1982 Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon as Monsieur Perrichon
- 1973 La Nuit des rois as Malvolio
- 1978 La Puce à l'oreille as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
- 1968 Azaïs as Le baron Wurtz
- 1978 Les deux timides as Thibaudier
- 1966 Interdit au public as Hervé Montagne
- 1969 Le minotaure as Michou
- 1966 Seventeenth Heaven as L'homme à la voiture
- 1970 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme as Monsieur Jourdain
- 1978 Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires as Lucien Beix
- 1962 Sign of the Lion as Le Clochard
- 1970 Et qu'ça saute ! as Don Pedro
- 1963 Un coup dans l'aile as Levaillant
- 1986 Le Malade imaginaire as Argan
- 1979 I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs as Drouillard
- 1975 Around the World in 80 Days as Phileas Fogg
- 1987 Ferveur - Comédie Française as Self
- 1974 Ursule and Grelu
- 1986 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- 1966 At Theatre Tonight ( 1 episode ) as Hervé Montagne
- 1966 At Theatre Tonight ( 1 episode ) as Le baron Wurtz
- 1968 À bout portant ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Midi Première ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Système 2 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1976 30 millions d'amis ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Le Tour du monde en 80 jours ( 2 episodes ) as Phileas Fogg
