Jean Le Poulain
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
51
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-09-12
Day of death
1988-03-01 (63 years old)
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.
Known For
Midi Première
Champs-Elysées
Le Grand Échiquier
Samedi soir
30 millions d'amis
At Theatre Tonight
At Theatre Tonight
Système 2
À bout portant
Sahara on Fire
The Hunchback of Paris
The Red Ibis
The Mysteries of Paris
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Ferveur - Comédie Française
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Divine
Le Faiseur
Les Livreurs
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Seventeenth Heaven
Sign of the Lion
De doux dingues
La Puce à l'oreille
Salut Berthe !
La Nuit des rois
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Et qu'ça saute !
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
The Empire of Night
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Interdit au public
Fric-Frac
Le roi du village
Les Gorilles
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Le Malade imaginaire
The Deadly Decoy
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
La Dame de chez Maxim
Les deux timides
Signé Furax
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Sortie de secours
Around the World in 80 Days
Le noir te va si bien
Volpone
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le minotaure
Azaïs
Un coup dans l'aile
