Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1924-09-12
Day of Death
1988-03-01
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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.
Filmography (44)
Ferveur - Comédie Française
1987
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986
Le Malade imaginaire
1986
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982
Signé Furax
1981
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
Volpone
1978
La Puce à l'oreille
1978
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978
Les deux timides
1978
Le Faiseur
1977
Le noir te va si bien
1975
Divine
1975
