Jean Le Poulain
Born
September 12, 1924
Died
March 1, 1988 (63 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
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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Known For
Le Malade imaginaire
Argan
1986
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Monsieur Perrichon
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self · (1 episode)
1982
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
1981
La Dame de chez Maxim
le Général Petypon du Grêlé
1981
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
1979
Volpone
Volpone
1978
La Puce à l'oreille
Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
1978
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Lucien Beix
1978
Les deux timides
Thibaudier
1978
Le Faiseur
M. Mercadet
1977
30 millions d'amis
Self · (1 episode)
1976
Le noir te va si bien
John
1975
Divine
Bobovitch
1975
The Red Ibis
Margos
1975
Système 2
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Midi Première
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Around the World in 80 Days
Phileas Fogg
1975
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
1973
La Nuit des rois
Malvolio
1973
De doux dingues
Paul Lecuyer
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · (1 episode)
1972
Fric-Frac
Jo
1971
Samedi soir
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Sortie de secours
Harpagon
1970
Et qu'ça saute !
Don Pedro
1970
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
1970
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Gruson
1970
Le minotaure
Michou
1969
À bout portant
Self · (1 episode)
1968
Azaïs
Le baron Wurtz
1968
Salut Berthe !
Step Dad
1968
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968
Interdit au public
Hervé Montagne
1966
At Theatre Tonight
Hervé Montagne · (1 episode)
1966
At Theatre Tonight
Le baron Wurtz · (1 episode)
1966
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
1966
Les Gorilles
The stage director
1964
Un coup dans l'aile
Levaillant
1963
Le roi du village
1963
The Empire of Night
David Balkis, Emperor of the night
1962
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
1962
The Deadly Decoy
Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
1962
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
1962
Les Livreurs
Professor Alexis Schmutz
1961
Sahara on Fire
1961
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
1959
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
1958
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948