Biography
Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le Vésinet, Yvelines – 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). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a re...
La lumière du lac
1988
as Le vieux
An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an...
To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play...
The Night of Varennes
1982
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967
as Self
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer,...
Chappaqua
1966
as Dr. Benoit
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in Sa...
The Big Scare
1964
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
Les Fausses Confidences
1964
as Dubois
The Longest Day
1962
as Father Louis Roulland
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
Prosessen
1962
Writer
Adaptation of Kafka’s famous novel for Norwegian TV. Joseph K. discovers two policeme in his appartment, while in the middle of the morning routine. T...
Blood on His Sword
1961
as Louis XI
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to t...
Experiment in Evil
1960
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Ma...
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960
as Mime
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrif...
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
1958
as Le comte
Musée Grévin
1958
as Self
A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
as Fénelon
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, ...
With André Gide
1952
as Self
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-t...
Venom and Eternity
1952
as Self
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov...
La Ronde
1950
as The Poet
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an...
Vagabonds imaginaires
1950
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Dullin and Roger Blin each say a poem. The actors do not appear on screen.
Man to Men
1948
as Henri Dunant
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
La Rose et le réséda
1947
as Narrator (voice)
The poem of the same name by Aragon is read in order to make a statement about the 1940s wartime French Resistance.
Blind Desire
1945
as Michel Kremer
A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly de...
Children of Paradise
1945
as Baptiste Debureau
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actr...
Angel of the Night
1944
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association fall...
La Symphonie fantastique
1942
as Hector Berlioz
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitra...
Montmartre on the Seine
1941
as Michel Courtin
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Cla...
Parade in 7 Nights
1941
as Lucien Ardouin
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Mlle. Desiree
1941
as Napoléon Bonaparte
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Nap...
L'Or dans la montagne
1939
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
The Southern Trail
1938
as Olcott
As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote ...
Youth in Revolt
1938
as Armand
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were...
Mirages
1938
as Pierre Bonvais
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
I Accuse
1938
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in sc...
The Puritan
1938
as Francis Ferriter
A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His searc...
Orage
1938
as The African
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanc...
The Pearls of the Crown
1937
as Bonaparte jeune
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
Street of Shadows
1937
as le client fou
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, ...
Social Police
1937
as Scoppa
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, a...
À nous deux, madame la vie
1937
as Paul Briançon
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years...
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937
as Karl van Beethoven
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Hélène
1936
as Pierre Régnier
Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with as...
Jenny
1936
as le Dromadaire
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenn...
Under Western Eyes
1936
as Haldin
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes emb...
Happy Days
1935
as René
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical stu...