Jean-louis Barrault

After secondary studies at the Lycée Chaptal, Jean-Louis Barrault entered the Charles-Dullin Theater School. Renowned for his studies of classical pieces, improvisation and mime, Charles Dullin hired him in his troupe from 1933 to 1935. At the same time Jean-Louis Barrault met mime Etienne Decroux, the young actor immediately fell in love with this discipline. At the age of 25 he took his first steps in the cinema in Les Beaux jours by Marc Allégret, with which he subsequently shot Under the Eyes of the West alongside Pierre Fresnay and Michel Simon. The same year he appeared in Jenny, the first feature film by Marcel Carné, followed by Un Grand Amour by Beethoven by Abel Gance then gave the reply to his future wife Madeleine Renaud in Hélène by Jean Benoit-Levy. The filmmakers seem fascinated by this man with an extraordinary physique, far removed from the young premieres. He therefore appeared in 1937 in no less than six feature films. He plays a killer of prostitutes in The Puritan by Jeff Musso, a killer of butchers in the comedy Funny drama by Marcel Carné, gives the reply for the first time to Arletty (the two actors will turn together 4 times) in Les Perles de the crown of Christian-Jaque and Sacha Guitry and finds, for the third time, Marc Allégret for the drama Orage.



In 1940, Jean-Louis Barrault became the 408th member of the Comédie Française and directed the pieces Le Soulier de satin and Phèdre. Brilliantly alternating theater and cinema, the actor appears in 1941 in Christian-Jaque's film, La Symphonie Fantastique, in which he plays the composer Hector Berlioz. The following year he played a blind lover of Michele Alfa in L 'Ange de la nuit by André Berthomieu before lending his features, in 1943, to the Baptist mime in Les Enfants du paradis by his friend Marcel Carné. The film owes, in large part, its origin to Jean-Louis Barrault, since it was during a meeting in Nice in January 1943 that the actor told Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert of his fascination with the historical figure. by the famous mime Jean-Gaspard Debureau. Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert then set to work to produce a fictionalized adaptation of a precise moment in the mime's life,"to keep Debureau, but by surrounding him with contemporaries and imaginary beings" . The plot of the Children of Paradise, both imaginary and historical, was laid. Jean-Louis Barrault continued his momentum with the successes Le Cocu Magnifique by Emile-Georges de Meyst and D'homme à hommes by Christian-Jaque where he played Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross.

In 1946, Jean-Louis Barrault resigned from the Comédie Française and founded, with his wife the actress Madeleine Renaud, the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, installed at the Théâtre Marigny (until 1954 when the company moved to the Théâtre le Petit Marigny ). They hire, among others, Pierre Bertin, Georges Le Roy, Jean Desailly, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Pierre Renoir and Simone Valère. In 1953, Jean-Louis Barrault created with André Frank the review Cahiers Renaud-Barrault and in 1958 he founded with Jean Mercure, André Barsacq and Raymond Rouleau the “New Cartel”. The following year, Andre Malraux, then Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, appointed him director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon (a position he would keep until 1968). Twenty years after staging a first performance of Paul Claudel's playThe satin shoe (lasting 11 hours), he reiterated at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1963.

During these years, Jean-Louis Barrault, very busy with the theater, became rarer in the cinema but appeared all the same in La Ronde by Max Ophüls (1950), at Sacha Guitry for If Versailles was told me ... ( 1953), plays the main role of Testament du Docteur Cordelier by Jean Renoir (1959), plays the counterpart to Jean Marais and Roger Hanin in Le Miracle des loups by André Hunebelle (1961) and is famous in the cast of Le Jour le plus long (1962). In 1964, he played alongside Bourvil and Francis Blanche in Jean-Pierre Mocky's comedy, La Grande Frousse. Jean-Louis Barrault then devoted himself completely to the theater and reappeared on the big screen in 1982 in La Nuit de Varennes by Ettore Scola where he played Restif de La Bretonne. Jean-Louis Barrault died on January 22, 1994 at the age of 83,


Biography written by Laëtitia Forhan

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