Biography
Pierre Barillet (24 August 1923 – 8 January 2019) was a French playwright. Barillet was born in Paris, France. Passionate about theatre since childhood, he wrote his first play, Les Héritiers, in 1945 after being a law student. It was followed by Les Amants de Noël, performed at the Théâtre de Poche. He also worked as a radio broadcaster, reading novels and plays with Agnès Capri. He first experienced success in 1951 with Le Don d'Adèle, which he wrote along with Jean-Pierre Gredy. The play was...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Fleur de cactus
2017
Author

The Greven Mystery
2017
Alfred Greven was the head a French movie studio founded with Nazi money producing propaganda and the most subversive masterpieces of French Cinema. G...

Cocteau Marais - Un couple mythique
2013
as Himself
A story of passion between Jean Cocteau, Pygmalion poet, novelist, designer, playwright and avant-garde film-maker and Jean Marais, a popular actor, "...

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
2011
as Self
Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how bein...

Just Go with It
2011
Theatre Play
While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon t...

Trophy Wife
2010
Theatre Play
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acqu...

Lily et Lily
1987
Theatre Play

Fleur de cactus
1987
Author

Adieu Prudence
1985
Writer

Potiche
1983
Author
Suzanne Pujol is the submissive wife of a rich industrialist who is as unpleasant with his family as with his workers. Following a strike in the compa...

Folle Amanda
1983
Author

Peau de vache
1980
Writer

Le pont japonais
1978
Writer

La Plume
1978
Theatre Play

Folle Amanda
1974
Author
A former music hall singer, Amanda lives day by day while remaining optimistic. Short of money, she wants to publish her memoirs. But her ex-husband P...

L'Or et la paille
1974
Author
La Reine Blanche
1973
Author

40 Carats
1973
Writer
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see ...

Le don d'Adèle
1972
Author

Cactus Flower
1969
Theatre Play
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist J...

Ami-Ami
1967
Author

زهرة الصبار
1967
Writer

Women Are Talkative
1958
Writer
Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial girl, Marie-Josèphe, who marries Alexandre after ...

Beauties of the Night
1952
Adaptation
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.