Jean Le Poulain
Biography
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.
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Filmography
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Ferveur - Comédie Française
1987
as Self
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986
Le Malade imaginaire
1986
as Argan
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982
as Monsieur Perrichon
Signé Furax
1981
as Klakmuf
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
as Drouillard
Volpone
1978
as Volpone
La Puce à l'oreille
1978
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978
as Lucien Beix
Les deux timides
1978
as Thibaudier
Le Faiseur
1977
as M. Mercadet
Le noir te va si bien
1975
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
Divine
1975
as Bobovitch
The Red Ibis
1975
as Margos
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Around the World in 80 Days
1975
as Phileas Fogg
Ursule and Grelu
1974
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
as Brother Albaret
La Nuit des rois
1973
as Malvolio
De doux dingues
1972
as Paul Lecuyer
Fric-Frac
1971
as Jo
Sortie de secours
1970
as Harpagon
Et qu'ça saute !
1970
as Don Pedro
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970
as Monsieur Jourdain