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