Jean Le Poulain

Jean Le Poulain

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 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 1924-09-12

Died: 1988-03-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés		10
2	1958	Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon	M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave	80
3	1959	The Hunchback of Paris	Peyrolles	67
4	1961	Sahara on Fire		0
5	1961	Les Livreurs	Professor Alexis Schmutz	0
6	1962	Sign of the Lion	Le Clochard	70
7	1962	Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin	Le préfet de police	60
8	1962	The Deadly Decoy	Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'	35
9	1962	The Mysteries of Paris	The schoolmaster	66
10	1962	The Empire of Night	David Balkis, Emperor of the night	40
11	1963	Le roi du village		0
12	1963	Un coup dans l'aile	Levaillant	10
13	1964	Les Gorilles	The stage director	55
14	1966	Seventeenth Heaven	L'homme à la voiture	50
15	1966	Interdit au public	Hervé Montagne	0
16	1968	A Strange Kind of Colonel		55
17	1968	Salut Berthe !	Step Dad	44
18	1968	Azaïs	Le baron Wurtz	80
19	1969	Le minotaure	Michou	0
20	1970	She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks	Gruson	62
21	1970	Le Bourgeois gentilhomme	Monsieur Jourdain	0
22	1970	Et qu'ça saute !	Don Pedro	0
23	1970	Sortie de secours	Harpagon	60
24	1971	Fric-Frac	Jo	52
25	1972	De doux dingues	Paul Lecuyer	60
26	1973	La Nuit des rois	Malvolio	0
27	1973	The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot	Brother Albaret	51
28	1975	Around the World in 80 Days	Phileas Fogg	0
29	1975	The Red Ibis	Margos	54
30	1975	Divine	Bobovitch	45
31	1975	Le noir te va si bien	John	84
32	1977	Le Faiseur	M. Mercadet	0
33	1978	Les deux timides	Thibaudier	60
34	1978	Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires	Lucien Beix	0
35	1978	La Puce à l'oreille	Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche	0
36	1978	Volpone	Volpone	0
37	1979	I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs	Drouillard	52
38	1981	La Dame de chez Maxim	le Général Petypon du Grêlé	0
39	1981	Signé Furax	Klakmuf	48
40	1982	Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon	Monsieur Perrichon	0
41	1986	Le Malade imaginaire	Argan	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	At Theatre Tonight	Hervé Montagne	67
2	1966	At Theatre Tonight	Le baron Wurtz	67
3	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
4	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
5	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
6	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
7	1975	Système 2	Self	0
8	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
9	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63

Jean Le Poulain

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