Acting
Jean Le Poulain
FR cinema · 47 credits
Born
12 September 1924
Died
1 March 1988 (aged 63)
Birthplace
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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
Le Saut du lit
Stage Director
Le Malade imaginaire
as Argan, Stage Director
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as Monsieur Perrichon, Stage Director
Signé Furax
as Klakmuf
La Dame de chez Maxim
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
Volpone
as Volpone
La Puce à l'oreille
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Les deux timides
as Thibaudier, Stage Director
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
as Lucien Beix
Le Faiseur
as M. Mercadet
The Red Ibis
as Margos
Divine
as Bobovitch
Le noir te va si bien
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne, Stage Director
Pétrus
Stage Director
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Brother Albaret
La Nuit des rois
as Malvolio, Stage Director
De doux dingues
as Paul Lecuyer
Huit femmes
Stage Director
Fric-Frac
as Jo, Stage Director
Sortie de secours
as Harpagon
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as Monsieur Jourdain
Et qu'ça saute !
as Don Pedro
Le minotaure
as Michou
Salut Berthe !
as Step Dad
Azaïs
as Le baron Wurtz, Stage Director
Interdit au public
as Hervé Montagne, Stage Director
Seventeenth Heaven
as L'homme à la voiture
Les Gorilles
as The stage director
Un coup dans l'aile
as Levaillant
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as Le préfet de police
The Mysteries of Paris
as The schoolmaster
The Empire of Night
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
The Deadly Decoy
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
Sign of the Lion
as Le Clochard
Les Livreurs
as Professor Alexis Schmutz
The Hunchback of Paris
as Peyrolles
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
