Jean Le Poulain
ActingJean 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.
Known For
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
La Nuit des rois
Malvolio
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
Le Roi du village
Filmography — Acting
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
La Nuit des rois
Malvolio
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
Le Roi du village
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Pastor
Sortie de secours
Harpagon
Sahara on Fire
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Gruson
Salut Berthe !
Step Dad
Divine
Bobovitch
Les Livreurs
Professor Alexis Schmutz
The Empire of Night
David Balkis, Emperor of the night
Et qu'ça saute !
Don Pedro
La Dame de chez Maxim
le Général Petypon du Grêlé
Ursule and Grelu
Un coup dans l'aile
Levaillant
Azaïs
Le baron Wurtz
Les Gorilles
The stage director
The Red Ibis
Margos
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Volpone
Volpone
Ferveur - Comédie Française
Self
The Deadly Decoy
Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
Le noir te va si bien
John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Monsieur Perrichon
Around the World in 80 Days
Phileas Fogg
Le Faiseur
M. Mercadet
Fric-Frac
Jo
Le Malade imaginaire
Argan
La Puce à l'oreille
Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Interdit au public
Hervé Montagne
Le minotaure
Michou
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Lucien Beix
De doux dingues
Paul Lecuyer
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Les deux timides
Thibaudier