

Acting
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 Paradise). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age, he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de...
Highest rated appearances

La lumière du lac
as Le vieux
The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self

Chappaqua
as Dr. Benoit

Rhinocéros

The Big Scare

Les Fausses Confidences
as Dubois

The Longest Day
as Father Louis Roulland

Blood on His Sword
as Louis XI

Experiment in Evil
as Dr. Cordelier / Opale

The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Mime

Man to Men
as Henri Dunant
La Rose et le réséda
as Narrator (voice)

Blind Desire
as Michel Kremer

Children of Paradise
as Baptiste Debureau

Angel of the Night
as Jacques Martin, le jeune sculpteur

Mlle. Desiree
as Napoléon Bonaparte

La Symphonie fantastique
as Hector Berlioz

Montmartre on the Seine
as Michel Courtin

Parade in 7 Nights
as Lucien Ardouin

L'Or dans la montagne
as Maurice Farinet, le jeune paysan

The Southern Trail
as Olcott

Youth in Revolt
as Armand

Mirages
as Pierre Bonvais

J'Accuse

The Puritan
as Francis Ferriter

Orage
as The African

Bizarre, Bizarre
as William Kramps, le tueur de bouchers

The Pearls of the Crown
as Bonaparte jeune

Street of Shadows
as le client fou

Social Police
as Scoppa

À nous deux, madame la vie
as Paul Briançon

The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Karl van Beethoven

Hélène
as Pierre Régnier

Jenny
as le Dromadaire

Under Western Eyes
as Haldin

Happy Days
as René