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