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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Hunchback of Paris (1959) — Peyrolles
2. She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970) — Gruson
3. Sign of the Lion (1962) — Le Clochard
4. The Mysteries of Paris (1962) — The schoolmaster
5. I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979) — Drouillard
6. The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973) — Brother Albaret
7. The Red Ibis (1975) — Margos
8. Signé Furax (1981) — Klakmuf
9. Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962) — Le préfet de police
10. Le noir te va si bien (1975) — John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
11. Salut Berthe ! (1968) — Step Dad
12. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
13. A Strange Kind of Colonel (1968) — Pastor
14. Les Gorilles (1964) — The stage director
15. Seventeenth Heaven (1966) — L'homme à la voiture
16. At Theatre Tonight (1966) — Hervé Montagne
17. Divine (1975) — Bobovitch
18. The Deadly Decoy (1962) — Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
19. Ursule and Grelu (1974)
20. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
21. 30 millions d'amis (1976) — Self
22. Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (1948)
23. Fric-Frac (1971) — Jo
24. The Empire of Night (1962) — David Balkis, Emperor of the night
25. Sortie de secours (1970) — Harpagon
26. De doux dingues (1972) — Paul Lecuyer
27. Un coup dans l'aile (1963) — Levaillant
28. Midi Première (1975) — Self
29. Volpone (1978) — Volpone
30. Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1958) — M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
31. Les Livreurs (1961) — Professor Alexis Schmutz
32. Le Roi du village (1963)
33. Sahara on Fire (1961)
34. Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1982) — Monsieur Perrichon
35. Azaïs (1968) — Le baron Wurtz
36. Les deux timides (1978) — Thibaudier
37. Interdit au public (1966) — Hervé Montagne
38. Et qu'ça saute ! (1970) — Don Pedro
39. À bout portant (1968) — Self
40. Samedi soir (1971) — Self