Jean Le Poulain
Acting
1924-09-12 · 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.
Filmography
Le Saut du lit
1988 · Movie
Ferveur - Comédie Française
1987 · Movie
Le Malade imaginaire
1986 · Movie
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982 · Movie
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Series
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1981 · Movie
Signé Furax
1981 · Movie
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981 · Movie
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979 · Movie
Volpone
1978 · Movie
La Puce à l'oreille
1978 · Movie
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978 · Movie
Les deux timides
1978 · Movie
Le Faiseur
1977 · Movie
30 millions d'amis
1976 · Series
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
1975 · Series
Le noir te va si bien
1975 · Movie
Divine
1975 · Movie
The Red Ibis
1975 · Movie
Système 2
1975 · Series
Midi Première
1975 · Series
Around the World in 80 Days
1975 · Movie
Pétrus
1974 · Movie
Ursule and Grelu
1974 · Movie
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973 · Movie
La Nuit des rois
1973 · Movie
Huit femmes
1972 · Movie
De doux dingues
1972 · Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Series
Fric-Frac
1971 · Movie
Samedi soir
1971 · Series
Sortie de secours
1970 · Movie
Et qu'ça saute !
1970 · Movie
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970 · Movie
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970 · Movie
Le minotaure
1969 · Movie
À bout portant
1968 · Series
Azaïs
1968 · Movie
Salut Berthe !
1968 · Movie
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968 · Movie
Interdit au public
1966 · Movie
At Theatre Tonight
1966 · Series
Seventeenth Heaven
1966 · Movie
Les Gorilles
1964 · Movie
Un coup dans l'aile
1963 · Movie
Le Roi du village
1963 · Movie
The Empire of Night
1962 · Movie
The Mysteries of Paris
1962 · Movie
The Deadly Decoy
1962 · Movie
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962 · Movie
Sign of the Lion
1962 · Movie
Les Livreurs
1961 · Movie
Sahara on Fire
1961 · Movie
The Hunchback of Paris
1959 · Movie
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1958 · Movie
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948 · Movie