Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
209 acting credits · 11 directing credits
Acting · 209
Champs-Elysées
1982
Sacrée soirée
1987
Vivement dimanche
1998
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Fort Boyard
1990
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Numéro un
1975
Midi trente
1972
Discorama
1959
Fan School
1977
Cinépanorama
1956
Samedi soir
1971
Cérémonie des César
1976
Stars 90
1990
30 millions d'amis
1976
On n'est pas couché
2006
Reflets de Cannes
1954
À bout portant
1968
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
Coucou c'est nous !
1992
The Count of Monte Cristo
1998
Queen Margot
1994
Matin Bonheur
1987
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
The 400 Blows
1959
The Monster
1994
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
The Accursed Kings
2005
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
The Bride Wore Black
1968
Bolero
1981
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Archives secrètes
2021
Christine
1958
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
A Woman Is a Woman
1961
The Blue Bicycle
2000
Arsène Lupin joue et perd
1980
The Girl from Trieste
1982
Claire's Knee
1970
Mozart
1982
Ferbac
1991
Manon 70
1968
Actors
2000
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
Colpo di coda
1993
The Oldest Profession
1967
The Lovers
1958
A Very Private Affair
1962
An Impudent Girl
1985
The Lady Banker
1980
Adieu Philippine
1962
I Knew Her Well
1965
Deadly Circuit
1983
My New Partner II
1990
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
That Night of Varennes
1982
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
South Kensington
2001
Shock Troops
1967
Malady of Love
1987
Three Faces of Sin
1961
Carom Shots
1963
La banda Casaroli
1962
Famous Love Affairs
1961
The Big Night
1959
The Burning Court
1962
The Car Keys
2003
Male Hunt
1964
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
A French Woman
1995
Le Moustachu
1987
Lamiel
1967
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001
Circle of Love
1964
Dear Caroline
1968
The Song of Roland
1978
Male Companion
1964
Le Beau Serge
1959
Operation San Pietro
1967
Catherine & Co.
1975
King of Hearts
1966
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Edith and Marcel
1983
Son of Gascogne
1995
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
To the Extreme
2000
Holy Year
1976
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
The Mandrake
1965
Le Président Ferrare
2004
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
2004
The Cousins
1959
Vivement Truffaut
1985
The Accuser
1977
The Innocents
1987
Way of Youth
1959
Follow My Gaze
1986
How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965
People : Jet Set 2
2004
Inspector Lavardin
1986
Love at Sea
1965
Loving in the Rain
1974
Les Siffleurs
1964
Shadow Play
1996
The Tricyclist
1957
Unfair Competition
2001
Levy & Goliath
1987
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983
Swimming Instructor
1979
Anna
1998
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
Focal Point
1977
The Sword and the Balance
1963
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
1965
People in Luck
1963
Cover Up
1983
Kennedy et moi
1999
Fool’s Mate
1956
No Fear, No Die
1990
Our Husbands
1966
Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
Sentimental Education
1962
A Story of Water
1961
Pinot simple-flic
1984
Stella
1983
Anyone Can Kill Me
1957
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
2019
Hitch-Hike
1962
A Season in Hell
1971
Cinq-Mars
1981
Special Delivery
2002
Et ta sœur…
1958
The Overworked
1958
Maschenka
1987
Double Murder
1977
Marriage of the Century
1985
Le Bel Âge
1960
Die schöne Wilhelmine
1984
The Lions Are Loose
1961
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990
The Real Bargain
1965
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963
Père Noël et fils
1983
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
1959
How to Make a French Dish
1964
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999
A Girl in a Pocket
1957
Wise Guys
1961
Barocco
1976
The Fourth Power
1985
A Night at the Opera
2020
Les Filles à papa
2001
A Murder Is a Murder
1972
Eyes of Love
1959
A Friend of the Family
1957
Monsieur Max
2007
Quartier V.I.P.
2005
Tonio Kröger
1964
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994
The Army Game
1960
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
The Gigolo
1960
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
2003
Greed
1962
Sarah
1983
Comment épouser un premier ministre
1964
Scrambled Eggs
1976
Robert et Robert
1978
La Grande Béké
1998
L'Herbe rouge
1985
The Mischief Makers
1957
Young Girls Beware
1957
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974
As Luck Would Have It
2002
Demon Is on the Island
1983
Cap Canaille
1983
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990
Août
1992
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000
Illegal Cargo
1958
Comédie d'été
1989
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
2020
Die schöne Wilhelmine
1984
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
1980
Julie pot-de-colle
1977
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
1970
Côté cour, côté champs
1971
School for Coquettes
1958
Mafia Things
1971
Man of My Life
1999
Grand Guignol
1987
Un animal doué de déraison
1976
Jean Gabin intime
2010
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
1975
Le Débutant
1986
Tous les garçons...
1992
Quoi? L'éternité.
2005
La Jalousie
1992
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
2003
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
2014
Directing · 11
Loving in the Rain
1974
Cinq-Mars
1981
A Good Little Devil
1983
Closed Shutters
1973
Églantine
1972
Georges Dandin de Molière
1997
La dame aux camélias
1997
La Jalousie
1992
La nuit de l'été
1979
Les Malheurs de Sophie
1981
A Rare Bird
1973