Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault

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 th...

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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

As Self (archive footage)

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Experiment in Evil

As Dr. Cordelier / Opale

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To Be Hamlet

As Self

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Children of Paradise

As Baptiste Debureau

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L'Or dans la montagne

As Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan

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The Longest Day

As Father Louis Roulland

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Chappaqua

As Dr. Benoit

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The Night of Varennes

As Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne

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Venom and Eternity

As Self

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

As Fénelon

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The Pearls of the Crown

As Bonaparte jeune

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À nous deux, madame la vie

As Paul Briançon

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Social Police

As Scoppa

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I Accuse

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La Symphonie fantastique

As Hector Berlioz

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Parade in 7 Nights

As Lucien Ardouin

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Jenny

As le Dromadaire

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Angel of the Night

As Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur

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Vagabonds imaginaires

As Narrator (segment 'Le bateau ivre') (voice)

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Bizarre, Bizarre

As William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers

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Blood on His Sword

As Louis XI

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Street of Shadows

As le client fou

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With André Gide

As Self

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The Big Scare

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Mlle. Desiree

As Napoléon Bonaparte

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Under Western Eyes

As Haldin

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La Ronde

As The Poet

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Orage

As L'Africain

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The Life and Loves of Beethoven

As Karl van Beethoven

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The Puritan

As Francis Ferriter

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Man to Men

As Henri Dunant

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The Dialogue of the Carmelites

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La lumière du lac

As Le vieux

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The Birth of Children of Paradise

As Self

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Montmartre on the Seine

As Michel Courtin

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Mirages

As Pierre Bonvais

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Happy Days

As René

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Youth in Revolt

As Armand

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Hélène

As Pierre Régnier

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Musée Grévin

As Self

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The Southern Trail

As Olcott

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La Rose et le réséda

As Narrator (voice)

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Blind Desire

As Michel Kremer

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

As Self

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Midi Première

As Self

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À bout portant

As Self

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Le Grand Échiquier

As Self

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Numéro un

As Self

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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

As Self (archive footage)

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Discorama

As Self

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30 millions d'amis

As Self

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Samedi soir

As Self