Jean Le Poulain
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.
Personal Details
Movies (42)
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Stage Director (Directing)
1988
Ferveur - Comédie Française
as Self
1987
Le Malade imaginaire
as Argan
1986
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as Monsieur Perrichon
1982
Signé Furax
as Klakmuf
1981
La Dame de chez Maxim
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
1981
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Drouillard
1979
Volpone
as Volpone
1978
La Puce à l'oreille
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
1978
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
as Lucien Beix
1978
Les deux timides
as Thibaudier
1978
Le Faiseur
as M. Mercadet
1977
Le noir te va si bien
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
1975
Divine
as Bobovitch
1975
The Red Ibis
as Margos
1975
Around the World in 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg
1975
Pétrus
Stage Director (Directing)
1974
Ursule and Grelu
1974
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Brother Albaret
1973
La Nuit des rois
as Malvolio
1973
Huit femmes
Stage Director (Directing)
1972
De doux dingues
as Paul Lecuyer
1972
Fric-Frac
as Jo
1971
Sortie de secours
as Harpagon
1970
Et qu'ça saute !
as Don Pedro
1970
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as Monsieur Jourdain
1970
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
as Gruson
1970
Le minotaure
as Michou
1969
Azaïs
as Le baron Wurtz
1968
Salut Berthe !
as Step Dad
1968
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Pastor
1968
Interdit au public
as Hervé Montagne
1966
Seventeenth Heaven
as L'homme à la voiture
1966
Les Gorilles
as The stage director
1964
Un coup dans l'aile
as Levaillant
1963
Le roi du village
1963
The Empire of Night
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
1962
The Mysteries of Paris
as The schoolmaster
1962
The Deadly Decoy
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as Le préfet de police
1962
Sign of the Lion
as Le Clochard
1962
Les Livreurs
as Professor Alexis Schmutz
1961
