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
as Argan
as Monsieur Perrichon
as Self
as Klakmuf
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
as Volpone
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
as Lucien Beix
as Thibaudier
as M. Mercadet
as Self
as John
as Bobovitch
as Margos
as Self
as Self
as Le frère Albaret
as Malvolio
as Paul Lecuyer
as Self
as Jo
as Self
as Harpagon
as Don Pedro
as Monsieur Jourdain
as Michou
as Le baron Wurtz
as Beau Papa
as Self
as Hervé Montagne
as L'homme à la voiture
as Hervé Montagne
as Le baron Wurtz
as The stage director
as Levaillant
as David Balkis, the Emperor of the night
as The schoolmaster
as le préfet de police
as Le Clochard
as Professor Alexis Schmutz
as Peyrolles
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Stage Director
as Director
as Stage Director
as Stage Director
as Stage Director
as Stage Director
as Stage Director
as Director
as Stage Director