Cast & creator
Jean Le Poulain
Best known for Champs-Elysées, Midi Première, Le Grand Échiquier
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.
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film credits
11
television credits
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1948–1988 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (66)
Showing 66 of 66 credits
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Midi Première
Self
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972Samedi soir
Self
1971
At Theatre Tonight
Hervé Montagne
1966At Theatre Tonight
Le baron Wurtz
1966At Theatre Tonight
Stage Director
1966
30 millions d'amis
Self
1976Système 2
Self
1975
À bout portant
Self
1968
Sign of the Lion
Le Clochard
1962
The Mysteries of Paris
The schoolmaster
1962
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Le préfet de police
1962
Signé Furax
Klakmuf
1981
Pétrus
Stage Director
1974
Les Gorilles
The stage director
1964
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Drouillard
1979
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Monsieur Perrichon
1982Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Stage Director
1982
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Gruson
1970
Divine
Bobovitch
1975
The Empire of Night
David Balkis, Emperor of the night
1962
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Brother Albaret
1973
The Hunchback of Paris
Peyrolles
1959
Fric-Frac
Jo
1971Fric-Frac
Stage Director
1971
Le Roi du village
1963
Et qu'ça saute !
Don Pedro
1970
Le Saut du lit
Stage Director
1988
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Pastor
1968
La Nuit des rois
Malvolio
1973La Nuit des rois
Stage Director
1973
Volpone
Volpone
1978
The Deadly Decoy
Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
1962
Seventeenth Heaven
L'homme à la voiture
1966Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Phileas Fogg
1975
La Puce à l'oreille
Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
1978
Interdit au public
Hervé Montagne
1966Interdit au public
Stage Director
1966
La Dame de chez Maxim
le Général Petypon du Grêlé
1981
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948
Un coup dans l'aile
Levaillant
1963
Le noir te va si bien
John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne
1975Le noir te va si bien
Stage Director
1975
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
Lucien Beix
1978
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
1958
Sahara on Fire
1961
Salut Berthe !
Step Dad
1968
Les deux timides
Thibaudier
1978Les deux timides
Stage Director
1978
Le Malade imaginaire
Argan
1986Le Malade imaginaire
Stage Director
1986
Les Livreurs
Professor Alexis Schmutz
1961
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
1970
Ursule and Grelu
1974
The Red Ibis
Margos
1975
Sortie de secours
Harpagon
1970
Azaïs
Le baron Wurtz
1968Azaïs
Stage Director
1968
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986
De doux dingues
Paul Lecuyer
1972
Le minotaure
Michou
1969
Huit femmes
Stage Director
1972Ferveur - Comédie Française
Self
1987Around the World in 80 Days
Phileas Fogg
1975
Le Faiseur
M. Mercadet
1977