Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude Brialy

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria], 1933-03-30

Died: 2007-05-30

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	The Kreutzer Sonata	Trukhacevskij	61
2	1956	Fool’s Mate	Claude	66
3	1957	A Friend of the Family	Philippe Lemonnier	5
4	1957	Young Girls Beware	Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)	53
5	1957	A Girl in a Pocket	Jean-Loup	43
6	1957	The Mischief Makers	The man in the film	67
7	1957	The Tricyclist	Jean-Claude	55
8	1957	Anyone Can Kill Me	Un inspecteur de police	59
9	1958	The Overworked	Jimmy	60
10	1958	Elevator to the Gallows	Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)	76
11	1958	Illegal Cargo	Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné	30
12	1958	School for Coquettes	Robert	15
13	1958	Handsome Serge	François	69
14	1958	Et ta sœur…	Brice	53
15	1958	The Lovers	Boy on a ride (uncredited)	66
16	1958	Christine	Lieutenant Theo Kaiser	63
17	1959	The Cousins	Paul	68
18	1959	All the Boys Are Called Patrick	Patrick	66
19	1959	The 400 Blows	Man in Street	80
20	1959	Way of Youth	Paul Tiercelin	60
21	1959	The Big Night	Scintillone	61
22	1959	Eyes of Love	Pierre Ségur	49
23	1960	Le Bel Âge	Jean-Claude	53
24	1960	The Gigolo	Jacky	10
25	1960	The Army Game	Capitaine	51
26	1961	Fiancés on the Bridge	Nurse	65
27	1961	A Story of Water	The Young Man	64
28	1961	Wise Guys	Ronald	54
29	1961	A Woman Is a Woman	Émile Récamier	73
30	1961	Three Faces of Sin	Laurent Lénaud	63
31	1961	The Lions Are Loose	Didier Marèze	58
32	1961	Famous Love Affairs	Eric Torring	42
33	1961	Paris Belongs to Us	Jean-Marc	65
34	1962	A Very Private Affair	Narrateur	52
35	1962	The Seven Deadly Sins	Arthur (segment "L'avarice")	56
36	1962	Greed	Arthur	75
37	1962	Hitch-Hike	Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses	55
38	1962	The Burning Court	Marc Desgrez	50
39	1962	Cléo from 5 to 7	The Nurse (uncredited)	77
40	1962	Sentimental Education	Frédéric Moreau	54
41	1962	Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin	François de Vierne	60
42	1962	La banda Casaroli	Corrado Minguzzi	75
43	1962	The Devil and the Ten Commandments	Didier Marin	57
44	1962	Adieu Philippine	Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)	68
45	1963	The Sword and the Balance	Jean-Philippe	76
46	1963	People in Luck	L'automobiliste (« Le Gros Lot »)	57
47	1963	Carom Shots	Paul Martin	61
48	1963	Nutty, Naughty Chateau	Sébastien	52
49	1964	How to Make a French Dish	Jacquot	45
50	1964	Tonio Kröger	Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener	50
51	1964	Male Hunt	Antoine Monteil	66
52	1964	Circle of Love	Alfred	58
53	1964	Male Companion	The Prince	46
54	1964	Comment épouser un premier ministre	Philippe Lambert	10
55	1964	Les Siffleurs	Jean-Claude Brialy	0
56	1965	The Real Bargain	The gigolo	10
57	1965	How Not to Rob a Department Store	Marcel	10
58	1965	Love at Sea	The Disenchanted Man	70
59	1965	Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures	Figurant	47
60	1965	The Mandrake	Ligurio	59
61	1965	I Knew Her Well	Dario Marchionni	74
62	1966	Our Husbands	Ottavio Pelagatta	58
63	1966	King of Hearts	Duke of Clover	69
64	1967	Anna	Serge	55
65	1967	Shock Troops	Jean	67
66	1967	The Oldest Profession	Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")	50
67	1967	Lamiel	Le comte d'Aubigné	48
68	1967	Operation San Pietro	Cajella	59
69	1968	Dear Caroline	Le comte de Boimussy	45
70	1968	Manon 70	Jean-Paul	56
71	1968	The Bride Wore Black	Corey	72
72	1970	Le Bal du comte d'Orgel	Count Anne d'Orgel	50
73	1970	Claire's Knee	Jérôme	73
74	1971	Côté cour, côté champs		0
75	1971	Mafia Things	Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo	55
76	1971	A Season in Hell	Paul Verlaine	56
77	1972	A Murder Is a Murder	Paul Kastner	55
78	1974	Un amour de pluie	Seducer	48
79	1974	The Phantom of Liberty	Mr. Foucault	74
80	1974	Like a Pot of Strawberries	Norbert	55
81	1975	Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth	Narrator (voice)	90
82	1975	Catherine & Co.	Guillaume	10
83	1976	The Judge and the Assassin	Avocat Villedieu	69
84	1976	Un animal doué de déraison	Claude	50
85	1976	Scrambled Eggs	Brumaire	40
86	1976	Holy Year	Pierre Bizet	66
87	1976	Barocco	Walt	60
88	1977	Julie pot-de-colle	Jean-Luc Farlot	44
89	1977	The Accuser	Le Rantec	57
90	1977	Focal Point	Michel Gaur	50
91	1977	Double Murder	Van Nijlen	20
92	1978	Robert et Robert	Jacques Millet	62
93	1978	The Song of Roland	Le Seigneur	48
94	1979	Swimming Instructor	Logan	56
95	1980	The Lady Banker	Paul Cisterne	54
96	1980	The Adventures of Arsène Lupin	Arsène Lupin	0
97	1981	Cinq-Mars	l'historien	10
98	1981	Bolero	Le directeur du Lido	70
99	1982	The Night of Varennes	Monsieur Jacob	69
100	1982	The Girl from Trieste	Professor Martin	48
101	1983	Edith and Marcel	Loulou Barrier	57
102	1983	Cap Canaille	Me Samuel Kebadjan	39
103	1983	Notre Dame de la Croisette	Self	60
104	1983	Deadly Circuit	Voragine	62
105	1983	Demon Is on the Island	Dr Paul Henry Marshall	52
106	1983	Sarah	Gabriel Larcange	53
107	1983	Stella	Roland	78
108	1983	Cover Up	Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert	57
109	1983	Gramps Is in the Resistance	Le joueur de tennis flagorneur	69
110	1983	Père Noël et fils	Thomas	0
111	1984	Pinot simple-flic	Morcy	56
112	1984	Die schöne Wilhelmine	Casanova	0
113	1985	The Telephone Always Rings Twice	Le commissaire	55
114	1985	Vivement Truffaut	Self / Corey (archive footage)	60
115	1985	L'Herbe rouge	Abbot Gril	0
116	1985	The Fourth Power	PDG de la chaîne	62
117	1985	Marriage of the Century	Kaffenberg	53
118	1985	An Impudent Girl	Sam	65
119	1986	Inspector Lavardin	Claude Alvarez	62
120	1986	Follow My Gaze	Freddy Langlois	60
121	1986	A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later	Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'	58
122	1986	Le Débutant	Willy	40
123	1987	Levy & Goliath	Bijou / Delaroche	51
124	1987	Grand Guignol	M. Albert	35
125	1987	Maschenka	Kolin	0
126	1987	Le Moustachu	Leroy	44
127	1987	Malady of Love	Frédéric	50
128	1987	The Innocents	Klotz	52
129	1989	Comédie d'été	Gaston	20
130	1990	There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs	Il giudice	62
131	1990	My New Partner II	Le banquier	60
132	1990	Forgery and the Use of Forgeries	Charles Laumière	80
133	1990	No Fear, No Die	Pierre Ardennes	60
134	1992	Août	Martin	55
135	1992	La Jalousie	Albert Blondel	0
136	1994	Queen Margot	Coligny	72
137	1994	The Monster	Roccarotta	70
138	1994	Michel Sardou - Show Sardou	Self - Co-Host	0
139	1995	One Hundred and One Nights	The Japanese Guide	62
140	1995	Son of Gascogne	Self	48
141	1995	A French Woman	Arnoult	55
142	1996	Beaumarchais the Scoundrel	Abbot	66
143	1996	Shadow Play	Rene Sandre	74
144	1999	Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon	Self	0
145	1999	Man of My Life	Lucien Vilner	0
146	1999	Kennedy et moi	Benny Grimaldi	65
147	2000	Tribute to Alfred Lepetit	Self	10
148	2000	Actors	Jean-Claude Brialy	58
149	2000	To the Extreme	L'avocat	46
150	2001	Les Filles à papa	Robert, dit « Bob »	70
151	2001	Unfair Competition	nonno Mattia Della Rocca	70
152	2001	Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana	Vandoeuvres	55
153	2001	Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés		75
154	2001	South Kensington	Ferdinando	51
155	2002	Special Delivery	Robert Fresnel	47
156	2002	As Luck Would Have It	Jean-Pierre Muller	60
157	2003	Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film	Self	55
158	2003	Les filles, personne s'en méfie	Projectionist	10
159	2003	The Car Keys	Actor who refuses to film with Laurent	51
160	2004	People - Jet set 2	Minimo	34
161	2004	De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs	Self (archive footage)	70
162	2005	Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens	Self	100
163	2005	Quoi? L'éternité.	Self	0
164	2005	Quartier V.I.P.	Ferdinand	43
165	2007	Monsieur Max	Max Jacob	56
166	2007	Arletty, Lady Paname	Self	60
167	2007	Vous êtes de la police ?	Alfred Lamproie	0
168	2010	Jean Gabin intime	Self	100
169	2014	Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé	Self (archive footage)	0
170	2014	Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui		80
171	2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
172	2019	Claude Chabrol, the Maverick	Self - Actor (archive footage)	62
173	2019	Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...	Self (archive footage)	80
174	2020	Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff	Self (archive footage)	60
175	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
2	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
3	1959	Discorama	Self	0
4	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
5	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
6	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
7	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
8	1972	Midi trente	Self (archive footage)	60
9	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
10	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
11	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
12	1975	Numéro un	Self (archive footage)	60
13	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
14	1977	Fan School	Self - Host	73
15	1980	Arsène Lupin Joue et Perd "813"	Arsène Lupin / ...	100
16	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
17	1982	Mozart	Le comte d'Affiglio	80
18	1984	Die schöne Wilhelmine	Casanova	0
19	1987	Matin Bonheur	Self	0
20	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
21	1990	Fort Boyard	Self	74
22	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
23	1990	Les Nuls, l'émission	Self - Guest	83
24	1992	Coucou c'est nous !	Self	65
25	1993	Colpo di coda	Piantoni	0
26	1998	La Grande Béké	Dupont Menard	100
27	1998	The Count of Monte Cristo	Morrel's Father	72
28	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
29	2000	The Blue Bicycle	Raphaël Mahl	60
30	2004	Le Président Ferrare	Guillaume Ferrare	85
31	2005	The Accursed Kings	Hugues de Bouville	40
32	2006	On n'est pas couché	Self - Guest	52
33	2021	Archives secrètes	Self (archive footage)	0

Jean-Claude Brialy

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