Jean Le Poulain
Birthday: 1924-09-12 | Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, FranceJean 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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Monsieur Perrichon
as Thibaudier
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
as Volpone
as M. Mercadet
as Bobovitch
as John
as Margos
as Phileas Fogg
as Malvolio
as Jo
as Le baron Wurtz
as Pastor
as Step Dad
as Hervé Montagne
as L'homme à la voiture
as Le Clochard
as Le préfet de police
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
as Peyrolles
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
