
Jean-Louis Barrault
Known for: Acting
Born: September 8, 1910
Died: January 22, 1994
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 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a…
Known for

Experiment in Evil
1960

L'Or dans la montagne
1939

Chappaqua
1966

That Night of Varennes
1982

La Symphonie fantastique
1942

Vagabonds imaginaires
1950

Man to Men
1948

Youth in Revolt
1938
La Rose et le réséda
1947

La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
1958

Les Fausses Confidences
1964

Rhinocéros
1965

Children of Paradise
1945

Angel of the Night
1944

The Big Scare
1964

Mlle. Desiree
1942

The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937

The Puritan
1938

Hélène
1936

Blind Desire
1945

Venom and Eternity
1952

À nous deux, madame la vie
1937

With André Gide
1952

Montmartre on the Seine
1941

Mirages
1938

Musée Grévin
1958

Social Police
1937

Blood on His Sword
1961

La lumière du lac
1988

The Southern Trail
1938

Orage
1938

Happy Days
1935

To Be Hamlet
1985

Under Western Eyes
1936
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967

Jenny
1936

Street of Shadows
1937

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953

La Ronde
1950

The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960

Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
2019

I Accuse
1938

Parade in 7 Nights
1941

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020

The Longest Day
1962

Bizarre, Bizarre
1937

The Pearls of the Crown
1937

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Midi Première
1975

À bout portant
1968

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Numéro un
1975
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978

Discorama
1959

30 millions d'amis
1976
Samedi soir
1971

Cérémonie des César
1976