
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