1910-09-08 ( 114 years old ) in Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
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 the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racine's Phèdre, 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."
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Movies
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020-09-09
La lumière du lac
1988-11-23
To Be Hamlet
1985-01-19
The Night of Varennes
1982-05-15
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967-01-01
Chappaqua
1966-08-30
The Big Scare
1964-10-28
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
Blood on His Sword
1961-09-06
Experiment in Evil
1960-07-04
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960-06-01
Musée Grévin
1958-01-01
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
With André Gide
1952-02-22
Venom and Eternity
1952-01-25
La Ronde
1950-09-27
Vagabonds imaginaires
1950-04-26
Man to Men
1948-10-01
La Rose et le réséda
1947-07-10
Blind Desire
1945-12-07
Children of Paradise
1945-03-15
Angel of the Night
1944-01-19
La Symphonie fantastique
1942-04-01
Montmartre on the Seine
1941-11-19
Parade in 7 Nights
1941-09-24
Mlle. Desiree
1941-07-03
L'Or dans la montagne
1939-05-12
The Southern Trail
1938-09-07
Youth in Revolt
1938-07-21
Orage
1938-04-28
Mirages
1938-01-28
I Accuse
1938-01-23
The Puritan
1938-01-13
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937-10-20
The Pearls of the Crown
1937-05-12
Street of Shadows
1937-04-13
Social Police
1937-04-09
À nous deux, madame la vie
1937-03-26
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937-01-15
Hélène
1936-10-17
Jenny
1936-09-18
Under Western Eyes
1936-03-20
Happy Days
1935-11-08
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