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Jean-Louis Barrault
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Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le VĂ©sinet, Yvelines â 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 CarnĂ©'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 Ătienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the ComĂ©die-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's PhĂšdre, two plays that made his reputation.
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Jean-Louis Barrault (8 September 1910, Le VĂ©sinet, Yvelines â 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 CarnĂ©'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 Ătienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the ComĂ©die-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's PhĂšdre, two plays that made his reputation. Over his career, he acted in nearly 50 movies including Les beaux jours, Jenny, L'Or dans la Montagne and Sous les Yeux d'occident. In 1940, he married the actress Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America. He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83. Jean-Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris. Jean-Louis Barrault, Reflections on the Theatre:    "In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one's own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!" Barrault from Melinda Camber Porter's Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture:    "When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Barrault, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.â
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Jean-Louis Barrault's Filmography
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Morceaux de Cannes
Le FantĂŽme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
Carné, Prévert : drÎle de duo
as Self (archive footage)
La lumiĂšre du lac
as Le vieux
To Be Hamlet
as Self
That Night of Varennes
as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
No Poster
The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self
Chappaqua
as Dr. Benoit
Rhinocéros
The Big Scare
Les Fausses Confidences
as Dubois
The Longest Day
as Father Louis Roulland
Blood on His Sword
as Louis XI
Experiment in Evil
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Mime
La Répétition ou l'Amour puni
as Le comte
Musée Grévin
as Self
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as FĂ©nelon
With André Gide
as Self
Venom and Eternity
as Self
La Ronde
as The Poet
Vagabonds imaginaires
as Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)
Man to Men
as Henri Dunant
No Poster
La Rose et le réséda
as Narrator (voice)
The Magnificent Cuckold
as Bruno
Blind Desire
as Michel Kremer
Children of Paradise
as Baptiste Debureau
Angel of the Night
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur
Mlle. Desiree
as Napoléon Bonaparte
La Symphonie fantastique
as Hector Berlioz
Montmartre on the Seine
as Michel Courtin
Parade in 7 Nights
as Lucien Ardouin
L'Or dans la montagne
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan
The Southern Trail
as Olcott
Youth in Revolt
as Armand
Mirages
as Pierre Bonvais
J'Accuse
The Puritan
as Francis Ferriter
Orage
as The African
Bizarre, Bizarre
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers
The Pearls of the Crown
as Bonaparte jeune
Street of Shadows
as le client fou
Social Police
as Scoppa
Ă nous deux, madame la vie
as Paul Briançon
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Karl van Beethoven
HĂ©lĂšne
as Pierre RĂ©gnier
Jenny
as le Dromadaire
Under Western Eyes
as Haldin
Happy Days
as René