Jean-Louis Barrault

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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 sati…

  • Acting
  • Born 8 September 1910
  • Died 22 January 1994 (age 83)
  • Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
  • 59 credits

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Most-watched Jean-Louis Barrault films currently: The Longest Day (1962), Children of Paradise (1945), Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953), That Night of Varennes (1982), La Ronde (1950).

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Selected TV credits: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975), Le Grand Échiquier (1972), Midi Première (1975), Numéro un (1975), Discorama (1959).

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