
Cast
Jean Le Poulain
Acting
Cast
Jean Le Poulain
Known for
Acting
Born
1924-09-12
From
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Died
1988-03-01
Biography
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.

Azaïs
as Le baron Wurtz

Salut Berthe !
as Step Dad

The Hunchback of Paris
as Peyrolles

Le Faiseur
as M. Mercadet

Divine
as Bobovitch

The Mysteries of Paris
as The schoolmaster

Signé Furax
as Klakmuf

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
as Gruson

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Brother Albaret

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Drouillard

Sign of the Lion
as Le Clochard

Les Livreurs
as Professor Alexis Schmutz

A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Pastor

The Red Ibis
as Margos

Les Gorilles
as The stage director

Le Malade imaginaire
as Argan

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as Monsieur Perrichon

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as Le préfet de police

Sahara on Fire

Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés

Le Roi du village

Fric-Frac
as Jo

The Empire of Night
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night

Et qu'ça saute !
as Don Pedro

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave

The Deadly Decoy
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'

La Nuit des rois
as Malvolio

Sortie de secours
as Harpagon

Volpone
as Volpone

La Puce à l'oreille
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche

Interdit au public
as Hervé Montagne

Le noir te va si bien
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne

Le minotaure
as Michou

Ursule and Grelu

Around the World in 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg

Seventeenth Heaven
as L'homme à la voiture

La Dame de chez Maxim
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé

Un coup dans l'aile
as Levaillant

Ferveur - Comédie Française
as Self

Les deux timides
as Thibaudier

De doux dingues
as Paul Lecuyer

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as Monsieur Jourdain

Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
as Lucien Beix