Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy

Acting

Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy

Known for

Acting

Born

1933-03-30

From

Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]

Died

2007-05-30

Also known as J.C. Brialy, Jean Claude Brialy

Biography

Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude Brialy

Biography

The Lady Banker

Adieu Philippine

The 400 Blows

Deadly Circuit

Actors

Grand Guignol

Cléo from 5 to 7

Manon 70

Cover Up

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

The Mischief Makers

Inspector Lavardin

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Tricyclist

Elevator to the Gallows

Shadow Play

As Luck Would Have It

The Phantom of Liberty

The Monster

Queen Margot

A Very Private Affair

Double Murder

Les Siffleurs

Swimming Instructor

Dear Caroline

Arletty, Lady Paname

A Woman Is a Woman

I Knew Her Well

The Bride Wore Black

The Telephone Always Rings Twice

An Impudent Girl

Operation San Pietro

Edith and Marcel

La Jalousie

Way of Youth

Carom Shots

That Night of Varennes

Et ta sœur…

One Hundred and One Nights

Sarah

Lamiel

Malady of Love

Christine

Greed

Le Beau Serge

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Monsieur Max

Bolero

Claire's Knee

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

People in Luck

Male Hunt

The Song of Roland

Cap Canaille

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé

The Car Keys

Paris Belongs to Us

The Girl from Trieste

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A French Woman

Circle of Love

The Fourth Power

Eyes of Love

South Kensington

The Oldest Profession

Male Companion

Père Noël et fils

The Lovers

Michel Sardou - Show Sardou

Jean Gabin intime

Die schöne Wilhelmine

Loving in the Rain

School for Coquettes

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

The Mandrake

The Kreutzer Sonata