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.
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Filmography
all 44
Movies 36
TV Shows 8
self 7
Director 4
Move Over, Mrs. Markham (1988)
Le Malade imaginaire (1986)
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Signé Furax (1981)
La Dame de chez Maxim (1981)
Volpone (1978)
La Puce à L'oreille (1978)
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires (1978)
Les deux timides (1978)
Le Faiseur (1977)
30 millions d'amis (1976)
Le noir te va si bien (1975)
Divine (1975)
The Red Ibis (1975)
Système 2 (1975)
Midi Première (1975)
Pétrus (1974)
Ursule and Grelu (1974)
La Nuit des rois (1973)
Huit femmes (1972)
De doux dingues (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Fric-Frac (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
Et qu'ça saute ! (1970)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1970)
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
Le minotaure (1969)
À bout portant (1968)
Azaïs (1968)
Salut Berthe ! (1968)
Un drôle de colonel (1968)
Interdit au public (1966)
At Theatre Tonight (1966)
Seventeenth Heaven (1966)
Les Gorilles (1964)
Un coup dans l'aile (1963)
The Mysteries of Paris (1962)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
Sign of the Lion (1962)
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1958)
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1924-09-12
Deathday1988-03-01 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceMarseille, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Residencesavenue de l'Opéra, France
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