Jean-Claude Brialy
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
209
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-03-30
Day of death
2007-05-30 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Jean-Claude Brialy
Biography
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Champs-Elysées
Vivement dimanche
Sacrée Soirée
Midi trente
Midi trente
Fan School
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Fort Boyard
Discorama
Numéro un
Numéro un
Numéro un
Le Grand Échiquier
Samedi soir
30 millions d'amis
Cinépanorama
Stars 90
The Overworked
À bout portant
Coucou c'est nous !
The Oldest Profession
School for Coquettes
Bolero
Marriage of the Century
Three Faces of Sin
Le Bel Âge
Scrambled Eggs
The Count of Monte Cristo
The 400 Blows
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
People in Luck
The Phantom of Liberty
Matin Bonheur
Unfair Competition
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Famous Love Affairs
On n'est pas couché
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Reflets de Cannes
Queen Margot
Holy Year
Les Nuls, l'émission
The Monster
Cléo from 5 to 7
L'Herbe rouge
Malady of Love
Catherine & Co.
Paris Belongs to Us
The Song of Roland
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Kennedy et moi
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
How Not to Rob a Department Store
The Army Game
King of Hearts
Young Girls Beware
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Côté cour, côté champs
Demon Is on the Island
Levy & Goliath
Le Débutant
Shock Troops
People - Jet set 2
Way of Youth
Robert et Robert
Illegal Cargo
Son of Gascogne
Elevator to the Gallows
Maschenka
Claire's Knee
The Judge and the Assassin
Hitch-Hike
The Lovers
An Impudent Girl
Special Delivery
Love at Sea
Christine
Anna
The Night of Varennes
Un animal doué de déraison
Pinot simple-flic
Circle of Love
Cover Up
I Knew Her Well
Gramps Is in the Resistance
A Very Private Affair
The Innocents
The Gigolo
Wise Guys
The Car Keys
The Accuser
Male Companion
Handsome Serge
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Sword and the Balance
South Kensington
The Girl from Trieste
Shadow Play
Grand Guignol
Un amour de pluie
The Accursed Kings
The Mandrake
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Manon 70
Sentimental Education
The Bride Wore Black
The Burning Court
A Girl in a Pocket
Vivement Truffaut
My New Partner II
Colpo di coda
The Lions Are Loose
Focal Point
Archives secrètes
Sarah
Double Murder
Our Husbands
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
The Cousins
The Blue Bicycle
Tonio Kröger
Julie pot-de-colle
Male Hunt
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
A Woman Is a Woman
Edith and Marcel
The Tricyclist
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Mozart
The Fourth Power
Actors
Fool’s Mate
La Jalousie
Eyes of Love
Carom Shots
The Big Night
The Mischief Makers
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Adieu Philippine
Follow My Gaze
Lamiel
Ferbac
Swimming Instructor
The Real Bargain
A Story of Water
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Fiancés on the Bridge
Inspector Lavardin
Mafia Things
Quoi? L'éternité.
A French Woman
Deadly Circuit
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le Président Ferrare
Operation San Pietro
Barocco
La banda Casaroli
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Anyone Can Kill Me
Dear Caroline
One Hundred and One Nights
Arletty, Lady Paname
Arsène Lupin Joue et Perd "813"
To the Extreme
Les Filles à papa
A Friend of the Family
Vous êtes de la police ?
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Le Moustachu
Cap Canaille
Monsieur Max
Man of My Life
La Grande Béké
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Greed
The Kreutzer Sonata
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
No Fear, No Die
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Les Siffleurs
A Season in Hell
Père Noël et fils
Quartier V.I.P.
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Et ta sœur…
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
A Murder Is a Murder
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Comment épouser un premier ministre
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Jean Gabin intime
The Lady Banker
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
As Luck Would Have It
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Stella
Comédie d'été
How to Make a French Dish
Cinq-Mars
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Août
