Acting
Jean-Claude Brialy
FR, DE, IT, EN cinema · 185 credits
Born
30 March 1933
Died
30 May 2007 (aged 74)
Birthplace
Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Also known as J.C. Brialy · Jean Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
as Self (archive footage)
A Night at the Opera
as Self (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
as Self (archive footage)
Vous êtes de la police ?
as Alfred Lamproie
Monsieur Max
as Max Jacob
Quartier V.I.P.
as Ferdinand
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
as Self (archive footage)
People : Jet Set 2
as Minimo
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
as Projectionist
The Car Keys
as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
As Luck Would Have It
as Jean-Pierre Muller
Special Delivery
as Robert Fresnel
Unfair Competition
as Mattia Della Rocca
South Kensington
as Ferdinando
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
as Vandoeuvres
Les Filles à papa
as Robert, dit « Bob »
To the Extreme
as L'avocat
Actors
as Jean-Claude Brialy
Kennedy et moi
as Benny Grimaldi
Man of My Life
as Lucien Vilner
La dame aux camélias
Director, Adaptation
Shadow Play
as Rene Sandre
Son of Gascogne
as Self
One Hundred and One Nights
as The Japanese Guide
A French Woman
as Arnoult
Queen Margot
as Coligny
The Monster
as Roccarotta
Août
as Martin
La Jalousie
as Albert Blondel, Director
No Fear, No Die
as Pierre Ardennes
My New Partner II
as Le banquier
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
as Il giudice
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
as Charles Laumière
Comédie d'été
as Gaston
Grand Guignol
as M. Albert
The Innocents
as Klotz
Le Moustachu
as Leroy
Malady of Love
as Frédéric
Levy & Goliath
as Bijou / Delaroche
Maschenka
as Kolin
Inspector Lavardin
as Claude Alvarez
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
Follow My Gaze
as Freddy Langlois
Le Débutant
as Willy
Vivement Truffaut
as Self / Corey (archive footage)
Marriage of the Century
as Kaffenberg
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Le commissaire
L'Herbe rouge
as Abbot Gril
The Fourth Power
as PDG de la chaîne
Pinot simple-flic
as Morcy
Demon Is on the Island
as Dr Paul Henry Marshall
Deadly Circuit
as Voragine
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
Cover Up
as Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
Cap Canaille
as Me Samuel Kebadjan
Sarah
as Gabriel Larcange
Edith and Marcel
as Loulou Barrier
Père Noël et fils
as Thomas
Stella
as Roland
A Good Little Devil
Director
That Night of Varennes
as Monsieur Jacob
The Girl from Trieste
as Professor Martin
Bolero
as Le directeur du Lido
Cinq-Mars
as l'historien, Director
Les Malheurs de Sophie
Screenplay, Director
The Lady Banker
as Paul Cisterne
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
as Arsène Lupin
Swimming Instructor
as Logan
La nuit de l'été
Director
Robert et Robert
as Jacques Millet
The Song of Roland
as Le Seigneur
The Accuser
as Le Rantec
Focal Point
as Michel Gaur
Julie pot-de-colle
as Jean-Luc Farlot
Double Murder
as Van Nijlen
The Judge and the Assassin
as Avocat Villedieu
Barocco
as Walt
Holy Year
as Pierre Bizet
Scrambled Eggs
as Brumaire
Catherine & Co.
as Guillaume
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
as Narrator (voice)
The Phantom of Liberty
as Mr. Foucault
Loving in the Rain
as Seducer, Director, Screenplay
Like a Pot of Strawberries
as Norbert
Closed Shutters
Writer, Director
A Rare Bird
Director
A Murder Is a Murder
as Paul Kastner
Églantine
Writer, Director
A Season in Hell
as Paul Verlaine
Mafia Things
as Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
Claire's Knee
as Jérôme
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
as Count Anne d'Orgel
The Bride Wore Black
as Corey
Anna
as Serge
Manon 70
as Jean-Paul
Dear Caroline
as Le comte de Boimussy
Operation San Pietro
as Cajella
The Oldest Profession
as Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Shock Troops
as Jean
Lamiel
as Le comte d'Aubigné
Our Husbands
as Ottavio Pelagatta
King of Hearts
as Duke of Clover
The Mandrake
as Ligurio
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
as Figurant
Love at Sea
as The Disenchanted Man
The Real Bargain
as The gigolo
I Knew Her Well
as Dario Marchionni
Male Hunt
as Antoine Monteil
Les Siffleurs
as Jean-Claude Brialy
Circle of Love
as Alfred
Tonio Kröger
as Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
Comment épouser un premier ministre
as Philippe Lambert
Male Companion
as The Prince
How to Make a French Dish
as Jacquot
Carom Shots
as Paul Martin
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
as Sébastien
The Sword and the Balance
as Jean-Philippe
People in Luck
as L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as François de Vierne
The Burning Court
as Marc Desgrez
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
A Very Private Affair
as Narrateur
Hitch-Hike
as Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Didier Marin
Sentimental Education
as Frédéric Moreau
La banda Casaroli
as Corrado Minguzzi
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Nurse (uncredited)
Greed
as Arthur
Adieu Philippine
as Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
A Woman Is a Woman
as Émile Récamier
A Story of Water
as The Young Man
Wise Guys
as Ronald
The Lions Are Loose
as Didier Marèze
Three Faces of Sin
as Laurent Lénaud
Famous Love Affairs
as Eric Torring
Paris Belongs to Us
as Jean-Marc
The Gigolo
as Jacky
Le Bel Âge
as Jean-Claude
The Army Game
as Capitaine
The Cousins
as Paul
Le Beau Serge
as François
The Big Night
as Scintillone
The 400 Blows
as L' Homme dans la rue, Thanks
Eyes of Love
as Pierre Ségur
Way of Youth
as Paul Tiercelin
The Lovers
as Boy on a ride (uncredited)
Christine
as Theo Kaiser
Illegal Cargo
as Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
Elevator to the Gallows
as Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
Et ta sœur…
as Brice
The Overworked
as Jimmy
School for Coquettes
as Robert
The Mischief Makers
as The man in the film
A Girl in a Pocket
as Jean-Loup
Anyone Can Kill Me
as Un inspecteur de police
The Tricyclist
as Jean-Claude
Young Girls Beware
as Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
A Friend of the Family
as Philippe Lemonnier
The Kreutzer Sonata
as Trukhacevskij
Fool’s Mate
as Claude