Jean Le Poulain
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 3.0.
Known for
ActingBirthday
September 12, 1924Deathday
March 1, 1988Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
50Place of birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, FranceCast credits
Volpone
VolponeArsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
le préfet de policeThe Red Ibis
MargosDivine
BobovitchLes Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmasterLes Gorilles
The stage directorLe noir te va si bien
JohnSigné Furax
KlakmufShe Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
GrusonFric-Frac
JoThe Hunchback of Paris
PeyrollesLe Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième ZouaveThe Empire of Night
Les livreurs
The Deadly Decoy
Le roi du village
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Le frère AlbaretSahara on Fire
Sortie de secours
A Strange Kind of Colonel