Jean-Louis Barrault
September 8, 1910 · 115 years old
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…
Known For
7 titles
The Longest Day
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Children of Paradise
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
That Night in Varennes
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Experiment in Evil
Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will...
I Accuse
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to pr...
Le dialogue des Carmélites
This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.
La symphonie fantastique
Biographical romance about the great composer Hector Berlioz, someone whom the French, during their WWII occupation by the Nazis, could look back proudly on.