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 (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 member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's Phèdre, two plays that made his reputation.
Over his career, he acted in nearly 50 movies including Les beaux jours, Jenny, L'Or dans la Montagne and Sous les Yeux d'occident.
In 1940, he married the actress Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America.
He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83. Jean-Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
Jean-Louis Barrault, Reflections on the Theatre:
"In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one's own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!"
Barrault from Melinda Camber Porter's Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture:
"When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn."
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Filmography (Movies)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:09/09/2020
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/10/2019
La lumière du lac
Character:Le vieux
Release Date:23/11/1988
To Be Hamlet
Character:Self
Release Date:19/01/1985
The Night of Varennes
Character:Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Release Date:15/05/1982
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1967
Chappaqua
Character:Dr. Benoit
Release Date:30/08/1966
Rhinocéros
Character:
Release Date:27/04/1965
The Big Scare
Character:
Release Date:28/10/1964
Les Fausses Confidences
Character:Dubois
Release Date:23/03/1964
The Longest Day
Character:Father Louis Roulland
Release Date:25/09/1962
Blood on His Sword
Character:Louis XI
Release Date:06/09/1961
Experiment in Evil
Character:Dr. Cordelier / Opale
Release Date:04/07/1960
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Character:Mime
Release Date:01/06/1960
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
Character:Le comte
Release Date:10/02/1958
Musée Grévin
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1958
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character:Fénelon
Release Date:10/02/1954
With André Gide
Character:Self
Release Date:22/02/1952
Venom and Eternity
Character:Self
Release Date:25/01/1952
La Ronde
Character:The Poet
Release Date:27/09/1950
Vagabonds imaginaires
Character:Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Release Date:26/04/1950
Man to Men
Character:Henri Dunant
Release Date:29/08/1948
La Rose et le réséda
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/07/1947
Blind Desire
Character:Michel Kremer
Release Date:07/12/1945
Children of Paradise
Character:Baptiste Debureau
Release Date:15/03/1945
Angel of the Night
Character:Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
Release Date:19/01/1944
La Symphonie fantastique
Character:Hector Berlioz
Release Date:01/04/1942
Montmartre on the Seine
Character:Michel Courtin
Release Date:19/11/1941
Parade in 7 Nights
Character:Lucien Ardouin
Release Date:24/09/1941
Mlle. Desiree
Character:Napoléon Bonaparte
Release Date:03/07/1941
L'Or dans la montagne
Character:Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
Release Date:12/05/1939
The Southern Trail
Character:Olcott
Release Date:07/09/1938
Youth in Revolt
Character:Armand
Release Date:21/07/1938
Mirages
Character:Pierre Bonvais
Release Date:28/01/1938
I Accuse
Character:
Release Date:23/01/1938
The Puritan
Character:Francis Ferriter
Release Date:13/01/1938
Orage
Character:The African
Release Date:12/01/1938
Bizarre, Bizarre
Character:William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
Release Date:20/10/1937
The Pearls of the Crown
Character:Bonaparte jeune
Release Date:12/05/1937
Street of Shadows
Character:le client fou
Release Date:13/04/1937
Social Police
Character:Scoppa
Release Date:09/04/1937
À nous deux, madame la vie
Character:Paul Briançon
Release Date:26/03/1937
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Character:Karl van Beethoven
Release Date:15/01/1937
Hélène
Character:Pierre Régnier
Release Date:17/10/1936
Jenny
Character:le Dromadaire
Release Date:18/09/1936
Under Western Eyes
Character:Haldin
Release Date:20/03/1936
Happy Days
Character:René
Release Date:08/11/1935
Television Appearances
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Character:Self (archive footage)
30 millions d'amis
Character:Self
Numéro un
Character:Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character:Self
Midi Première
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self - Main Guest
Samedi soir
Character:Self
À bout portant
Character:Self
Discorama
Character:Self
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