Jean-Louis Barrault

Actor

Born: September 8, 1910
Died: January 22, 1994 (age 83)
From: Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le Vésinet, Yvelines – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to…

Filmography (48)

Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo (2019)
Self (archive footage)
La lumière du lac (1988)
Le vieux
To Be Hamlet (1985)
Self
That Night of Varennes (1982)
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
The Birth of Children of Paradise
The Birth of Children of Paradise (1967)
Self
Chappaqua (1966)
Dr. Benoit
Rhinocéros (1965)
The Big Scare (1964)
Les Fausses Confidences (1964)
Dubois
The Longest Day (1962)
Father Louis Roulland
Blood on His Sword (1961)
Louis XI
Experiment in Evil (1960)
Dr. Cordelier / Opale
The Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960)
Mime
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (1958)
Le comte
Musée Grévin (1958)
Self
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953)
Fénelon
With André Gide (1952)
Self
Venom and Eternity (1952)
Self
La Ronde (1950)
The Poet
Vagabonds imaginaires (1950)
Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Man to Men (1948)
Henri Dunant
La Rose et le réséda
La Rose et le réséda (1947)
Narrator (voice)
Blind Desire (1945)
Michel Kremer
Children of Paradise (1945)
Baptiste Debureau
Angel of the Night (1944)
Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
Mlle. Desiree (1942)
Napoléon Bonaparte
La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
Hector Berlioz
Montmartre on the Seine (1941)
Michel Courtin