Jean Le Poulain

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1924-09-12

Deathday 1988-03-01 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

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 3.0.

Known For

Actor

1982
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

as Monsieur Perrichon

1982
1981
Signé Furax

as Klakmuf

1981
La Dame de chez Maxim

as le Général Petypon du Grêlé

1978
Volpone

as Volpone

1978
La Puce à l'oreille

as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche

1978
Les deux timides

as Thibaudier

1977
Le Faiseur

as M. Mercadet

1976
1975
Divine

as Bobovitch

1975
The Red Ibis

as Margos

1975
Système 2

as Self

1975
1973
La Nuit des rois

as Malvolio

1972
De doux dingues

as Paul Lecuyer

1971
Fric-Frac

as Jo

1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1970
Sortie de secours

as Harpagon

1970
Et qu'ça saute !

as Don Pedro

1970
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

as Monsieur Jourdain

1969
Le minotaure

as Michou

1968
Azaïs

as Le baron Wurtz

1968
Salut Berthe !

as Step Dad

1968
1966
Interdit au public

as Hervé Montagne

1966
Seventeenth Heaven

as L'homme à la voiture

1966
At Theatre Tonight

as Hervé Montagne

1966
At Theatre Tonight

as Le baron Wurtz

1964
Les Gorilles

as The stage director

1963
Un coup dans l'aile

as Levaillant

1962
The Empire of Night

as David Balkis, Emperor of the night

1962
The Mysteries of Paris

as The schoolmaster

1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

as le préfet de police

1962
Sign of the Lion

as Le Clochard

1961
Les Livreurs

as Professor Alexis Schmutz

1959
1958
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave

Director

1988
1986
1978
Les deux timides

as Stage Director

1975
1974
Pétrus

as Stage Director

1973
La Nuit des rois

as Stage Director

1972
Huit femmes

as Stage Director

1971
Fric-Frac

as Stage Director

1968
Azaïs

as Stage Director

1966
Interdit au public

as Director

1966
At Theatre Tonight

as Stage Director