Jean-Louis Barrault

Acting

Jean-Louis Barrault

Born 1910-09-08 Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France 48 films

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 Éti…

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Filmography

48 films
To Be Hamlet poster

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the pa…

To Be Hamlet

★ 0.0 1985

Chappaqua poster

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cur…

Chappaqua

★ 6.3 1966