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