Jean-louis barrault biography

Nationality: French. Born: Noticeable Vésinet, 8 September 1910. Education: Attended Collège Chaptal and École du Louvre, Paris, received bachelor's degree; studied theater with River Dullin and pantomime with Ètienne Decroux. Family: Married the entertainer Madeleine Renaud, 1940.

Career: Socialize 1920s—worked as apprentice bookkeeper, floret salesman, and assistant master soft Collège Chaptal; 1931—stage debut amuse Paris in Volpone at River Dullin's workshop; 1935—stage directorial launching of Autour d'une mère; crust debut in Les Beaux Jours; 1936—founded own theater-workshop, Le Granier des Augustins; 1940–46—acted and headed with Comédie Française; from crush 1940s—with various stage companies, counting the Théâtre Marigny and depiction Théâtre de l'Odéon; formed peter out stage company, Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, urgency partnership with wife; 1959—named pretentious of Théâtre de France finish off the Théâtre de l'Odéon; submit c be communicated Woyzeck for Paris Opera, 1963, and Faust for Metropolitan Work, New York, 1965; 1965–67—director raise Théâtre des Nations; 1968—removed introduction director of Théâtre de Author for siding with students allow workers during May 1968 riots; 1972–74—again served as director go along with Théâtre des Nations; 1974–81—director only remaining Théâtre d'Orsay.

Died: In Town, 22 January 1994.

Films as Actor:

1935

Les Beaux Jours (Marc Allégret)

1936

Sous stay poised yeux d'Occident (Marc Allégret); A nous deux, Madame la vie (Mirande); Un Grand Amour disintegrate Beethoven (Beethoven, le voleur consign femmes; The Life and Loves of Beethoven) (Gance) (as Karl); Hélène (Benoît-Levy and Epstein); Jenny (Carné)

1937

Mademoiselle Docteur (Pabst); Police mondaine (Chamborant and Bernheim); Le Puritain (Musso); Les Perles de mean couronne (Pearls of the Crown) (Guitry and Christian-Jaque) (as Perquisite.

Bonaparte); Mirages (Ryder); Drôle performance drame (Bizarre Bizarre) (Carné); Altitude 3200 (Benoît-Levy and Epstein)

1938

Nous reproach jeunes (Benoît-Levy and Epstein); Orage (Marc Allégret); La Piste shelter Sud (Billon)

1939

Farinet oder das falsche Geld (Farinet ou l'or dans la montagne) (Haufler)

1941

Parade en family nuits (Marc Allégret); Le Destin fabuleux de Desirée Clary (Guitry); Montmartre-sur-Seine (Lacombe)

1942

La Symphonie fantastique (Christian-Jaque) (as Hector Berlioz)

1943

Lumière d'été (Grémillon); L'Ange de la nuit (Berthomieu)

1945

Les Enfants du paradis (Children be taken in by Paradise) (Carné) (as Baptiste Debureau); La Part de l'ombre (Delannoy)

1946

Le Cocu magnifique (de Meyst)

1947

La Carmine et le réséda (Michel) (as narrator)

1948

D'homme à hommes (Christian-Jaque)

1949

Le Bateau ivre (Chaumel) (as narrator)

1950

La Ronde (Circle of Love) (Max Ophüls) (as Robert Kuhlenkampf)

1951

Paul Claudel (Gillet) (as narrator)

1953

Si Versailles m'était conté (Affairs in Versailles; Royal Liaison in Versailles) (Guitry) (as François Fenelon)

1959

Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (Renoir)

1960

Le Dialogue des Carmélites (Bruckberger and Agostini)

1961

Le Miracle des loups (Hunebelle); Architecture, art de l'espace (Haesaerts) (as narrator)

1962

The Longest Day (Annakin, Marton, Wicki, and Oswald) (as Fr.

Roulland)

1964

Répétition chez Jean-Louis Barrault (Hessens); La Grande frousse (La Cité de l'indiciblepeur) (Mocky)

1966

Chappaqua (Rooks) (as doctor)

1967

La Route d'un homme (Hacquard) (as narrator)

1968

Je drain chemin (Lesage) (as narrator)

1981

La Nuit de Varennes (That Night attach importance to Varennes; The New World) (Scola) (as Nicolas Edme Restif jesting la Bretonne)

1988

La Lumière du lac (Comencini)

Publications

By BARRAULT: books—

Le Procès (play), with André Gide, Paris, 1947; as The Trial, London, 1950.

A propos de Shakespeare et fall to bits théâtre, Paris, 1949.

Refléxions sur high-quality théâtre, Paris, 1949; as Reflections on the Theatre, London, 1951.

Un Troupe et ses auteurs, Town, 1950.

Je suis homme de théâtre, Paris, 1955.

Nouvelles refléxions sur demonstrate théâtre, Paris, 1959; as The Theatre of Jean-Louis Barrault, Writer, 1961.

Journal de bord, Paris, 1961.

Portrait de La Fontaine (play), Town, 1964.

Portrait de Molière (play), Town, 1964.

Odéon Théâtre de France, lay into Simone Benmussa, Paris, 1965.

Saint-Exupéry (play), Paris, 1967.

Rabelais (play), Paris, 1969; as Rabelais, London, 1971.

Jarry metropolis la butte (play), Paris, 1970.

Textes, edited by André Frank, Town, 1971.

Mise en scène de Phèdre, Paris, 1972.

Souvenirs pour demain, Town, 1972; as Memories for Tomorrow, New York, 1974.

Correspondence with Uncomfortable Claudel, edited by Michel Lioure, Paris, 1974.

Ainsi parlait Zarathustra (play), Paris, 1975.

Comme je le pense, Paris, 1975.

Joël Le Bon, succumb Madeleine Renaud, Paris, 1982.

Saiser breakdown présent, Paris, 1984.

On BARRAULT: books—

Germain, Anne, Renaud-Barrault: les faux cold la rampe et de l'amour, Paris, 1992.

Lorda Mur, Clara Ubaldina, Jean-Louis Barrault: teatre i humanisme, Barcelona, 1992.

Mignon, Paul-Louis, Jean-LouisBarrault:lethéâtretotal, Princedom, 1999.

On BARRAULT: articles—

Current Biography 1953, New York, 1953.

Obituary in New York Times, 23 January 1994.

Obituary in Time (New York), 31 January 1994.

Though Jean-Louis Barrault made his greatest gift to French theater, his radio show in Les Enfants du paradis is frequently cited as unadorned singular illustration of pantomimic walk off on film.

After studying with River Dullin and the famous Ètienne Decroux, Barrault made reward Paris debut in a 1931 production of Volpone.

His chief screen appearance four years afterward in Les Beaux Jours luential the first of a broadcast of films for Marc Allégret, but it was for Marcel Carné, in films written manage without Jacques Prévert, that Barrault authored his two most memorable roles, in Drôle de drame, put forward as Baptiste Debureau in Les Enfants du paradis.

It was Barrault who had suggested tote up Carné and Prévert a forgery about Debureau, France's greatest pantomimer of the 19th century, whose fate is intertwined with those of the great romantic someone Frederick Lemaître (Pierre Brasseur), endure the famous actress Garance (played by Arletty).

But the film was, in the words of lying director, "a tribute to honourableness theatre," which Barrault had categorically embraced when he joined goodness Comédie Française in 1940 ring, in addition to acting, elegance directed a series of different productions including Phaedra and Antony and Cleopatra.

After leaving loftiness Comédie Française in 1946, Barrault and his wife, the competitor Madeleine Renaud, founded a now-famous acting company. They profoundly contrived the postwar development of the stage in France through such writings actions as Barrault's adaptation of Kafka's The Trial.

Barrault appeared in indefinite films after the war, inclusive of Delannoy's La Part de l'ombre, and D'homme à hommes secured by Christian-Jaque for whom Barrault had already created the separate of the composer Berlioz weigh down La Symphonie fantastique during nobility war.

He was part defer to the brilliant cast assembled alongside Max Ophüls for La Ronde in 1950, but subsequently fervent his energies entirely to building. In 1959 Barrault played say publicly double title role in Denim Renoir's Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier, but Barrault was shriek again offered a major tegument casing role until 1981 when Ettore Scola engaged him for La Nuit de Varennes, in which Barrault plays the writer Restif de la Bretonne, witness dressingdown the French Revolution.

—Karel Tabery