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Jean Le Poulain

Jean Le Poulain

Actor · 1924–1988 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

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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.

Acted in 43

1980s

  1. 1986

    Le Malade imaginaire

    Argan

  2. 1982

    Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

    Monsieur Perrichon

  3. 1981

    Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

    Movie

  4. Signé Furax

    Klakmuf

    52

  5. La Dame de chez Maxim

    le Général Petypon du Grêlé

1970s

  1. 1979

    I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

    Drouillard

  2. 1978

    Volpone

    Volpone

  3. La Puce à l'oreille

    Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche

  4. Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires

    Lucien Beix

  5. Les deux timides

    Thibaudier

  6. 1977

    Le Faiseur

    M. Mercadet

  7. 1975

    Le noir te va si bien

    John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne

  8. Divine

    Bobovitch

  9. The Red Ibis

    Margos

    58
  10. 1974

    Ursule and Grelu

    Movie

  11. 1973

    The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

    Brother Albaret

  12. La Nuit des rois

    Malvolio

  13. 1972

    De doux dingues

    Paul Lecuyer

  14. 1971

    Fric-Frac

    Jo

  15. 1970

    Sortie de secours

    Harpagon

  16. Et qu'ça saute !

    Don Pedro

  17. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

    Monsieur Jourdain

  18. She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

    Gruson

1960s

  1. 1969

    Le minotaure

    Michou

  2. 1968

    Azaïs

    Le baron Wurtz

  3. Salut Berthe !

    Step Dad

  4. A Strange Kind of Colonel

    Pastor

  5. 1966

    Interdit au public

    Hervé Montagne

  6. At Theatre Tonight

    Hervé Montagne, Le baron Wurtz · 1 episode

  7. Seventeenth Heaven

    L'homme à la voiture

  8. 1964

    Les Gorilles

    The stage director

  9. 1963

    Un coup dans l'aile

    Levaillant

  10. Le Roi du village

    Movie

  11. 1962

    The Empire of Night

    David Balkis, Emperor of the night

  12. The Mysteries of Paris

    The schoolmaster

  13. The Deadly Decoy

    Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'

  14. Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

    Le préfet de police

  15. Sign of the Lion

    Le Clochard

  16. 1961

    Les Livreurs

    Professor Alexis Schmutz

  17. Sahara on Fire

    Movie

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Hunchback of Paris

    Peyrolles

  2. 1958

    Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

    M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave

1940s

  1. 1948

    Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés

    Movie

Directed 12

1980s

  1. 1988

    Le Saut du lit

    Stage Director

  2. 1986

    Le Malade imaginaire

    Stage Director

  3. 1982

    Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon

    Stage Director

1970s

  1. 1978

    Les deux timides

    Stage Director

  2. 1975

    Le noir te va si bien

    Stage Director

  3. 1974

    Pétrus

    Stage Director

  4. 1973

    La Nuit des rois

    Stage Director

  5. 1972

    Huit femmes

    Stage Director

  6. 1971

    Fric-Frac

    Stage Director

1960s

  1. 1968

    Azaïs

    Stage Director

  2. 1966

    Interdit au public

    Stage Director

  3. At Theatre Tonight

    Stage Director

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