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
Musée Grévin poster

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and be…

Musée Grévin

★ 9.0 1958

La Ronde poster

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets…

La Ronde

★ 7.3 1950

Man to Men poster

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross…

Man to Men

★ 4.9 1948