Jean Le Poulain
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
Champs-Elysées
Midi Première
Le Grand Échiquier
At Theatre Tonight
At Theatre Tonight
30 millions d'amis
À bout portant
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
All Movies (44)
- Ferveur - Comédie Française1987 · as Self
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme1986
- Le Malade imaginaire1986 · as Argan
- Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon1982 · as Monsieur Perrichon
- Signé Furax1981 · as Klakmuf
- La Dame de chez Maxim1981 · as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
- I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs1979 · as Drouillard
- Volpone1978 · as Volpone
- La Puce à l'oreille1978 · as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
- Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires1978 · as Lucien Beix
- Les deux timides1978 · as Thibaudier
- Le Faiseur1977 · as M. Mercadet
- Le noir te va si bien1975 · as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
- Divine1975 · as Bobovitch
- The Red Ibis1975 · as Margos
- Around the World in 80 Days1975 · as Phileas Fogg
- Ursule and Grelu1974
- The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot1973 · as Brother Albaret
- La Nuit des rois1973 · as Malvolio
- De doux dingues1972 · as Paul Lecuyer
- Fric-Frac1971 · as Jo
- Sortie de secours1970 · as Harpagon
- Et qu'ça saute !1970 · as Don Pedro
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme1970 · as Monsieur Jourdain
- She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks1970 · as Gruson
- Le minotaure1969 · as Michou
- Azaïs1968 · as Le baron Wurtz
- Salut Berthe !1968 · as Step Dad
- A Strange Kind of Colonel1968 · as Pastor
- Interdit au public1966 · as Hervé Montagne
- Seventeenth Heaven1966 · as L'homme à la voiture
- Les Gorilles1964 · as The stage director
- Un coup dans l'aile1963 · as Levaillant
- Le Roi du village1963
- The Empire of Night1962 · as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
- The Mysteries of Paris1962 · as The schoolmaster
- The Deadly Decoy1962 · as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
- Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin1962 · as Le préfet de police
- Sign of the Lion1962 · as Le Clochard
- Les Livreurs1961 · as Professor Alexis Schmutz
- Sahara on Fire1961
- The Hunchback of Paris1959 · as Peyrolles
- Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon1958 · as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
- Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés1948
All TV Shows (10)
- Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
- 30 millions d'amis1976 · as Self
- Le Tour du monde en 80 jours1975 · as Phileas Fogg
- Système 21975 · as Self
- Midi Première1975 · as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier1972 · as Self
- Samedi soir1971 · as Self
- À bout portant1968 · as Self
- At Theatre Tonight1966 · as Hervé Montagne
- At Theatre Tonight1966 · as Le baron Wurtz