Jean-Claude Brialy
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
210
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
Sacrée Soirée
Vivement dimanche
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Fort Boyard
Wise Guys
The Count of Monte Cristo
Holy Year
Le Grand Échiquier
Cinépanorama
Christine
Illegal Cargo
Coucou c'est nous !
Fan School
To the Extreme
Vivement Truffaut
Numéro un
Numéro un
Numéro un
Maschenka
A Very Private Affair
Robert et Robert
The Tricyclist
Sarah
Barocco
30 millions d'amis
Double Murder
Midi trente
Midi trente
Inspector Lavardin
Le Débutant
Anna
The Mischief Makers
Stars 90
Shadow Play
Discorama
Samedi soir
Grand Guignol
Adieu Philippine
Levy & Goliath
Actors
Le Beau Serge
The Cousins
Dear Caroline
Les Nuls, l'émission
Cover Up
Malady of Love
Deadly Circuit
The 400 Blows
The Gigolo
Monsieur Max
Follow My Gaze
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
The Overworked
Famous Love Affairs
Les Siffleurs
Paris Belongs to Us
Way of Youth
Quoi? L'éternité.
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
On n'est pas couché
Reflets de Cannes
Manon 70
Jean Gabin intime
Lamiel
Operation San Pietro
La Jalousie
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Cléo from 5 to 7
Arletty, Lady Paname
Carom Shots
Male Companion
Edith and Marcel
Cap Canaille
L'Herbe rouge
Hitch-Hike
À bout portant
Sentimental Education
Greed
Comédie d'été
Elevator to the Gallows
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Young Girls Beware
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
The Burning Court
Août
Unfair Competition
Queen Margot
The Accursed Kings
People in Luck
Pinot simple-flic
The Fourth Power
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Kennedy et moi
Matin Bonheur
An Impudent Girl
Père Noël et fils
The Monster
The Lovers
The Phantom of Liberty
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Le Bel Âge
The Blue Bicycle
Bolero
The Bride Wore Black
As Luck Would Have It
King of Hearts
Le Président Ferrare
The Night of Varennes
A Woman Is a Woman
Colpo di coda
Love at Sea
I Knew Her Well
Archives secrètes
Et ta sœur…
The Oldest Profession
The Seven Deadly Sins
Claire's Knee
The Innocents
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
The Judge and the Assassin
One Hundred and One Nights
Swimming Instructor
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
The Girl from Trieste
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Arsène Lupin Joue et Perd "813"
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
The Sword and the Balance
Son of Gascogne
Mozart
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
La Grande Béké
Circle of Love
How to Make a French Dish
Ferbac
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Catherine & Co.
The Big Night
A French Woman
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Shock Troops
The Accuser
Fool’s Mate
The Kreutzer Sonata
South Kensington
My New Partner II
No Fear, No Die
The Real Bargain
Un amour de pluie
The Lady Banker
Fiancés on the Bridge
Male Hunt
The Mandrake
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
The Car Keys
The Lions Are Loose
A Murder Is a Murder
Scrambled Eggs
Notre Dame de la Croisette
The Song of Roland
La banda Casaroli
Demon Is on the Island
A Story of Water
A Friend of the Family
Focal Point
A Girl in a Pocket
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
People : Jet Set 2
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Our Husbands
Eyes of Love
The Army Game
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Le Moustachu
Anyone Can Kill Me
Special Delivery
Les Filles à papa
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Die schöne Wilhelmine
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Tonio Kröger
Mafia Things
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Quartier V.I.P.
Three Faces of Sin
Cinq-Mars
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
School for Coquettes
Stella
A Season in Hell
Man of My Life
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Marriage of the Century
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Un animal doué de déraison
Julie pot-de-colle
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Côté cour, côté champs
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Vous êtes de la police ?
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