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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
52 acting credits
Acting · 52
Champs-Elysées
1982
Midi Première
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Samedi soir
1971
Système 2
1975
At Theatre Tonight
1966
30 millions d'amis
1976
À bout portant
1968
The Hunchback of Paris
1959
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970
Sign of the Lion
1962
Signé Furax
1981
The Mysteries of Paris
1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
Et qu'ça saute !
1970
The Red Ibis
1975
Les Gorilles
1964
Salut Berthe !
1968
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968
Seventeenth Heaven
1966
Sahara on Fire
1961
Divine
1975
Les Livreurs
1961
The Empire of Night
1962
La Nuit des rois
1973
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948
Azaïs
1968
Le Faiseur
1977
Sortie de secours
1970
Fric-Frac
1971
Le Roi du village
1963
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1958
The Deadly Decoy
1962
Volpone
1978
Le Malade imaginaire
1986
Around the World in 80 Days
1975
Un coup dans l'aile
1963
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981
Le noir te va si bien
1975
Ferveur - Comédie Française
1987
Le minotaure
1969
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982
Ursule and Grelu
1974
De doux dingues
1972
Interdit au public
1966
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978
La Puce à l'oreille
1978
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970
Les deux timides
1978