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Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault (French:; 8 September 1910 – 22 January 1994) was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.
YearTitleRoleDirector1935René1936Student1936Haldin1936Le DromadaireJean-Louis Barrault (born Sept. 8, 1910, Le Vésinet, France—died Jan. 22, 1994, Paris) was a French actor, director, and producer whose work with both avant-garde and classic plays helped revive French theatre after World War II.
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Arguably his most notable triumph on film was his portrayal of Baptiste in Children of Paradise (1945), which was based on the life of the mime-actor Jean-Gaspard Deburau, a character he originally suggested to Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert.
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Jan 24, 1994 · Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director, theatre manager and theoretician: born Le Vesinet, France 8 September 1910; married 1940 Madeleine Renaud; died Paris 22 January 1994. JEAN-LOUIS...
Jean-Louis Barrault, né le 8 septembre 1910 au Vésinet et mort le 22 janvier 1994 à Paris 16e, est un comédien, metteur en scène et directeur de théâtre français . Biographie. Jeunesse. Jean-Louis Barrault est le fils du pharmacien Jules Barrault (1876-1918) et de Marcelle Hélène Valette (1884-1939) 1.
A superlative tragedian and mime, his dedication to both avant-garde and classical plays helped revive the French theatre after World War II, while presenting world premières of works by such playwrights as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet.
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Jean-Louis Barrault, who died in January this year, was a dynamic force for change, a pure representative of modernism, an heroic force in the 20th Century. In Jean-Louis we found the classicism of the Comédie Français living in harmony with the popular front and revolutionary sexual ideas of surrealism.
