Jean Le Poulain
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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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Credits
The Mysteries of Paris (1962)
as The schoolmaster
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
as Gruson
Signé Furax (1981)
as Klakmuf
Sign of the Lion (1962)
as Le Clochard
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1982)
as Monsieur Perrichon
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin (1962)
as Le préfet de police
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)
as Drouillard
The Empire of Night (1962)
as David Balkis, Emperor of the night
Les Gorilles (1964)
as The stage director
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)
as Brother Albaret
Le Roi du village (1963)
Actor
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
as Peyrolles
Divine (1975)
as Bobovitch
Et qu'ça saute ! (1970)
as Don Pedro
A Strange Kind of Colonel (1968)
as Pastor
Fric-Frac (1971)
as Jo
La Nuit des rois (1973)
as Malvolio
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (1948)
Actor
Seventeenth Heaven (1966)
as L'homme à la voiture
Volpone (1978)
as Volpone
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon (1958)
as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
Le noir te va si bien (1975)
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
La Dame de chez Maxim (1981)
as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
Salut Berthe ! (1968)
as Step Dad
Un coup dans l'aile (1963)
as Levaillant
Les Livreurs (1961)
as Professor Alexis Schmutz
Les deux timides (1978)
as Thibaudier
Le Malade imaginaire (1986)
as Argan
The Deadly Decoy (1962)
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
La Puce à l'oreille (1978)
as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires (1978)
as Lucien Beix
Interdit au public (1966)
as Hervé Montagne
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1970)
as Monsieur Jourdain
The Red Ibis (1975)
as Margos
Ursule and Grelu (1974)
Actor
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1986)
Actor
Sortie de secours (1970)
as Harpagon
Around the World in 80 Days (1975)
as Phileas Fogg
De doux dingues (1972)
as Paul Lecuyer
Ferveur - Comédie Française (1987)
as Self
Le minotaure (1969)
as Michou
Azaïs (1968)
as Le baron Wurtz
Le Faiseur (1977)
as M. Mercadet
Sahara on Fire (1961)
Actor