1910-09-08 Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le Vésinet, Yvelines – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's Phèdre, two plays that made his reputation. Over his career, he acted in nearly 50 movies including Les beaux jours, Jenny, L'Or dans la Montagne and Sous les Yeux d'occident. In 1940, he married the actress Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America. He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83. Jean-Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris. Jean-Louis Barrault, Reflections on the Theatre: "In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one's own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!" Barrault from Melinda Camber Porter's Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture: "When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Barrault, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-09 |
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Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-16 |
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La lumière du lac | Le vieux | 1988-11-23 |
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To Be Hamlet | Self | 1985-01-19 |
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La Nuit de Varennes | Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne | 1982-05-15 |
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Die Geburt der Kinder Des Olymp | Self | 1967-01-01 |
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Chappaqua | Dr. Benoit | 1966-08-30 |
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Rhinocéros | 1965-04-27 | |
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Les Fausses Confidences | Dubois | 1964-03-23 |
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La Grande Frousse | 1964-10-28 | |
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The Longest Day | Father Louis Roulland | 1962-09-25 |
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Le Miracle des loups | Louis XI | 1961-09-06 |
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Le Testament du docteur Cordelier | Dr. Cordelier / Opale | 1960-07-04 |
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Le Dialogue des Carmélites | Mime | 1960-06-01 |
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Musée Grévin | Self | 1958-01-01 |
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La Répétition ou l'Amour puni | Le comte | 1958-02-10 |
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Si Versailles m'était conté | Fénelon | 1954-02-10 |
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Traité de bave et d'éternité | Self | 1952-01-25 |
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Avec André Gide | Self | 1952-02-22 |
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La Ronde | The Poet | 1950-09-27 |
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Vagabonds imaginaires | Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice) | 1950-04-26 |
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D'homme à hommes | Henri Dunant | 1948-08-29 |
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La Rose et le réséda | Narrator (voice) | 1947-07-10 |
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La Part de l'ombre | Michel Kremer | 1945-12-07 |
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Les Enfants du Paradis | Baptiste Debureau | 1945-03-15 |
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L'Ange de la nuit | Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur | 1944-01-19 |
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La Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz | 1942-04-01 |
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Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary | Napoléon Bonaparte | 1941-07-03 |
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Montmartre sur Seine | Michel Courtin | 1941-11-19 |
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Parade en 7 nuits | Lucien Ardouin | 1941-09-24 |
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L'Or dans la montagne | Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan | 1939-05-12 |
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Mirages | Pierre Bonvais | 1938-01-28 |
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J'accuse | 1938-01-23 | |
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La Piste du Sud | Olcott | 1938-09-07 |
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Altitude 3.200 | Armand | 1938-07-21 |
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Orage | The African | 1938-01-12 |
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Le Puritain | Francis Ferriter | 1938-01-13 |
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Un grand amour de Beethoven | Karl van Beethoven | 1937-01-15 |
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Police mondaine | Scoppa | 1937-04-09 |
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À nous deux, madame la vie | Paul Briançon | 1937-03-26 |
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Drôle de drame | William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers | 1937-10-20 |
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Mademoiselle Docteur | le client fou | 1937-04-13 |
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Les Perles de la couronne | Bonaparte jeune | 1937-05-12 |
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Hélène | Pierre Régnier | 1936-10-17 |
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Jenny | le Dromadaire | 1936-09-18 |
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Sous les yeux d'occident | Haldin | 1936-03-20 |
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Les Beaux Jours | René | 1935-11-08 |
