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Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (French:; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.
Jean-Louis Barrault, né le 8 septembre 1910 au Vésinet et mort le 22 janvier 1994 à Paris 16e, est un comédien, metteur en scène et directeur de théâtre français . Biographie. Jeunesse. Jean-Louis Barrault est le fils du pharmacien Jules Barrault (1876-1918) et de Marcelle Hélène Valette (1884-1939) 1.
Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director, and producer whose work with both avant-garde and classic plays helped revive French theatre after World War II. Barrault, a student of Charles Dullin, first appeared on the stage as a servant in Dullin’s production of Volpone (1931).
Arguably his most notable triumph on film was his portrayal of Baptiste in Children of Paradise (1945), which was based on the life of the mime-actor Jean-Gaspard Deburau, a character he originally suggested to Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert.
Celebrated French stage actor/director/producer Jean-Louis Barrault was born on September 8, 1910. A superlative tragedian and mime, his dedication to both avant-garde and classical plays helped revive the French theatre after World War II, while presenting world premières of works by such playwrights as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco and ...
Jan 23, 1994 · Jean-Louis Barrault, one of the great actor-directors of 20th-century French theater, died early today in his Paris home at the age of 83. Associates said he died in his sleep, apparently...
An in-depth biography of the film actor Jean-Louis Barrault, and a complete list of the artist's films, with links to movie reviews.
Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910 – 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).
Jan 24, 1994 · Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director, theatre manager and theoretician: born Le Vesinet, France 8 September 1910; married 1940 Madeleine Renaud; died Paris 22 January 1994. JEAN-LOUIS...
Jean-Louis Barrault, who died in January this year, was a dynamic force for change, a pure representative of modernism, an heroic force in the 20th Century. In Jean-Louis we found the classicism of the Comédie Français living in harmony with the popular front and revolutionary sexual ideas of surrealism.
