Jean Le Poulain
Actor
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Sign of the Lion
as Le Clochard 1962
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
as Gruson 1970
The Mysteries of Paris
as The schoolmaster 1962
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Drouillard 1979
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Brother Albaret 1973
The Red Ibis
as Margos 1975
Signé Furax
as Klakmuf 1981
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as Le préfet de police 1962
Le noir te va si bien
as John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne 1975
Salut Berthe !
as Step Dad 1968
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Pastor 1968
Les Gorilles
as The stage director 1964
Seventeenth Heaven
as L'homme à la voiture 1966
Divine
as Bobovitch 1975
Fric-Frac
as Jo 1971
The Deadly Decoy
as Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque' 1962