Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault studied at Lycée Chaptal. Training under Charles Dullin and Étienne Decroux is recorded. Peter Brook is recorded as having studied under Jean-Louis Barrault. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. Works named in the authority record are Bizarre, Bizarre and Children of Paradise.

• Name — Jean-Louis Barrault • Born — 8 September 1910 • Birthplace — Le Vésinet, France • Died — 22 January 1994 • Place of death — Paris, France

Barrault was born in Le Vésinet in France in 1910. His father was "a Burgundian pharmacist who died in the First World War.":87 He studied at the Collége Chaptal until 1930, when he began his studies at the École du Louvre.:87

From 1931 to 1935 Barrault studied and acted at Charles Dullin's L'Atelier.:32 His first performance was a small role in Ben Jonson's Volpone. At the time, Barrault was unable to afford rent and Dullin allowed him to sleep in the theatre on Volpone's bed.:16 It was at L'Atelier that he first met and studied under Étienne Decroux:41 with whom he would create the pantomime La Vie Primitive in 1931.:87 He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, performing lead roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Corneille's Le Cid.:32 He and his wife, actress Madeleine Renaud, formed their own troupe, Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, in 1946 at Paris' Théâtre Marigny.:161 In 1951 he published his memoirs, Reflections on the Theatre. He was made director of Théâtre de France in 1959, and remained in the role until 1969. In 1971 he was reappointed director of Théâtre des Nations. He retired from the theatre in 1990.:87

He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. In 1940, he married the actress Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America.

Barrault died from a heart attack in Paris on 22 January 1994, at the age of 83.:87 He is buried with his wife Madeleine in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.

• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1935 — Beautiful Days — René — Marc Allégret • 1936 — Mayerling — Student — Anatole Litvak — Uncredited • Under Western Eyes — Haldin — Marc Allégret • Jenny — Le Dromadaire — Marcel Carné • Helene — Pierre Régnier — Jean Benoît-Lévy • Beethoven's Great Love — Karl van Beethoven — Abel Gance • 1937 — À nous deux, madame la vie — Paul Briançon — René Guissart and Yves Mirande • Police mondaine — Scoppa — Michel Bernheim and Christian Chamborant • Street of Shadows — Le client fou — G. W. Pabst • The Pearls of the Crown — young Napoleon — Sacha Guitry and Christian-Jaque • Bizarre, Bizarre — William Kramps — Marcel Carné • 1938 — Orage — the African — Marc Allégret • Le puritain — Francis Ferriter — Jeff Musso • J'accuse! — Abel Gance • Mirages — Pierre Bonvais — Alexandre Ryder • Altitude 3.200 — Armand — Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein • La Piste du sud — Olcott — Pierre Billon • 1939 — Farinet ou l'or dans la montagne — Maurice Farinet — Max Haufler • 1941 — Parade en sept nuits — Lucien Ardouin — Marc Allégret • Montmartre-sur-Seine — Michel Courtin — Georges Lacombe • 1942 — La Symphonie fantastique — Hector Berlioz — Christian-Jaque • Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary — Napoléon Bonaparte — Sacha Guitry • 1944 — L'Ange de la nuit — Jacques Martin — André Berthomieu • 1945 — Children of Paradise — Baptiste Deburau — Marcel Carné • Blind Desire — Michel Kremer — Jean Delannoy • 1947 — Le Cocu magnifique — Bruno — E.G. de Meyst • 1948 — Man to Men — Henri Dunant — Christian-Jaque • 1950 — Vagabonds imaginaires — Le récitant — Alfred Chaumel and Jacques Dufilho — Voice, (segment 'Le bateau ivre') • La Ronde — Robert Kuhlenkampf, the poet — Max Ophüls • 1951 — Traité de bave et d'éternité — Himself — Isidore Isou • 1954 — Royal Affairs in Versailles — Fénelon — Sacha Guitry • 1959 — The Doctor's Horrible Experiment — Doctor Cordelier / Opale — Jean Renoir — TV movie • 1960 — Le dialogue des Carmélites — Le mime — Philippe Agostini and Raymond Leopold Bruckberger • 1961 — Le Miracle des loups — Louis XI of France — André Hunebelle • 1962 — The Longest Day — Father Roulland — Ken Annakin • 1964 — La grande frousse — Douve — Jean-Pierre Mocky • 1966 — Chappaqua — Doctor Benoit — Conrad Rooks • 1977 — Jacques Prévert — Himself — Jean Desvilles • 1980 — The Lovers' Exile — Introducer — Marty Gross • 1982 — That Night in Varennes — Nicolas-Edme Rétif — Ettore Scola • 1988 — La Lumière du lac — Le vieux — Francesca Comencini

Jean-Louis Barrault was recorded at birth as Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault. The authorities additionally record the heading Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault. His recorded language was French. He married Madeleine Renaud. Other recorded relations include Marie-Christine Barrault.

Jean-Louis Barrault is recorded with the occupation theatre director. Recorded with the occupation mime artist. Recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as actor, theatre director, mime artist, film director and screenwriter. Career and activity. Recorded position is Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. He belonged to Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Comité des intellectuels pour l'Europe des libertés.