Jean Le Poulain
Jean 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.
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Acted in
Le Malade imaginaire
1986
as Argan
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982
as Monsieur Perrichon
Signé Furax
1981
as Klakmuf
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
Volpone
1978
as Volpone
La Puce à l'oreille
1978
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978
as Lucien Beix
Les deux timides
1978
as Thibaudier
Le Faiseur
1977
as M. Mercadet
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Le noir te va si bien
1975
as John
Divine
1975
as Bobovitch
The Red Ibis
1975
as Margos
Système 2
1975
as Self
Midi Première
1975
as Self
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
as Brother Albaret
La Nuit des rois
1973
as Malvolio
De doux dingues
1972
as Paul Lecuyer
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Fric-Frac
1971
as Jo
Sortie de secours
1970
as Harpagon
Et qu'ça saute !
1970
as Don Pedro
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970
as Monsieur Jourdain
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970
as Gruson
Le minotaure
1969
as Michou
À bout portant
1968
as Self
Azaïs
1968
as Le baron Wurtz
Salut Berthe !
1968
as Step Dad
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968
Interdit au public
1966
as Hervé Montagne
At Theatre Tonight
1966
as Hervé Montagne
At Theatre Tonight
1966
as Le baron Wurtz
Seventeenth Heaven
1966
as L'homme à la voiture
Les Gorilles
1964
as The stage director
Un coup dans l'aile
1963
as Levaillant
Le roi du village
1963
The Empire of Night
1962
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
The Mysteries of Paris
1962
as The schoolmaster
The Deadly Decoy
1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
as le préfet de police
Sign of the Lion
1962
as Le Clochard
Les Livreurs
1961
as Professor Alexis Schmutz
Sahara on Fire
1961
The Hunchback of Paris
1959
as Peyrolles
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1958
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948