Jean Le Poulain
Acting
Born: 1924-09-12 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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
Midi Première
Self
At Theatre Tonight
Hervé Montagne
At Theatre Tonight
Le baron Wurtz
Champs-Elysées
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
30 millions d'amis
Self
À bout portant
Self
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
Divine
Bobovitch
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
Les Gorilles
The stage director
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Monsieur Perrichon
Fric-Frac
Jo
La Dame de chez Maxim
le Général Petypon du Grêlé
Le Roi du village
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
The Empire of Night
David Balkis, Emperor of the night
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Pastor
Salut Berthe !
Step Dad
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Gruson
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
Volpone
Volpone
Les deux timides
Thibaudier
Le Malade imaginaire
Argan
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
Et qu'ça saute !
Don Pedro
Interdit au public
Hervé Montagne
Le minotaure
Michou
Sortie de secours
Harpagon
Ursule and Grelu
Les Livreurs
Professor Alexis Schmutz