Jean Le Poulain
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(44 total)
The Hunchback of Paris
as Peyrolles
Sign of the Lion
as Le Clochard
The Mysteries of Paris
as The schoolmaster
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Drouillard
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Brother Albaret
The Red Ibis
as Margos
Signé Furax
as Klakmuf
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as Le préfet de police
Le noir te va si bien
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
Salut Berthe !
as Step Dad
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Pastor
Les Gorilles
as The stage director
Seventeenth Heaven
as L'homme à la voiture
Divine
as Bobovitch
Fric-Frac
as Jo
The Deadly Decoy
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
The Empire of Night
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
TV Shows
(9 total)
Champs-Elysées
as Self
At Theatre Tonight
as Hervé Montagne
At Theatre Tonight
as Le baron Wurtz
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
30 millions d'amis
as Self
À bout portant
as Self
Midi Première
as Self