Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022·7.2
A Night at the Opera
2020·6.4
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020·6.0
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
2020·6.0
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
2019·8.0
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019·6.2
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014·8.0
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
2014·0.0
Jean Gabin intime
2010·10.0
Vous êtes de la police ?
2007·0.0
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007·6.0
Monsieur Max
2007·5.6
Quartier V.I.P.
2005·4.5
Quoi? L'éternité.
2005·8.0
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005·10.0
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
2004·7.0
People : Jet Set 2
2004·3.4
The Car Keys
2003·5.2
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
2003·4.5
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
2003·5.5
As Luck Would Have It
2002·5.8
Special Delivery
2002·5.0
South Kensington
2001·5.1
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001·8.0
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001·5.0
Unfair Competition
2001·7.0
Les Filles à papa
2001·7.3
To the Extreme
2000·4.9
Actors
2000·5.8
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000·5.0
Kennedy et moi
1999·6.4
Man of My Life
1999·10.0
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999·0.0
Anna
1998·5.7
Shadow Play
1996·7.3
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996·6.6
A French Woman
1995·5.5
Son of Gascogne
1995·5.1
One Hundred and One Nights
1995·6.1
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994·0.0
The Monster
1994·7.0
Queen Margot
1994·7.2
La Jalousie
1992·6.0
Août
1992·6.3
Tous les garçons...
1992·10.0
No Fear, No Die
1990·6.1
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990·7.5
My New Partner II
1990·6.0
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990·6.8
Comédie d'été
1989·5.0
The Innocents
1987·5.1
Malady of Love
1987·5.1
Le Moustachu
1987·5.3
Maschenka
1987·9.0
Grand Guignol
1987·3.9
Levy & Goliath
1987·5.1
Le Débutant
1986·4.1
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986·5.9
Follow My Gaze
1986·6.2
Inspector Lavardin
1986·6.2
An Impudent Girl
1985·6.5
Marriage of the Century
1985·5.4
The Fourth Power
1985·6.4
L'Herbe rouge
1985·7.0
Vivement Truffaut
1985·7.5
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985·5.4
Die schöne Wilhelmine
1984·0.0
Pinot simple-flic
1984·5.6
Père Noël et fils
1983·8.0
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983·6.9
Cover Up
1983·5.6
Stella
1983·7.0
Sarah
1983·6.0
Demon Is on the Island
1983·5.3
Deadly Circuit
1983·6.1
Cap Canaille
1983·4.1
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983·7.5
Edith and Marcel
1983·5.7
The Girl from Trieste
1982·4.8
That Night of Varennes
1982·6.9
Bolero
1981·6.9
Cinq-Mars
1981·3.7
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
1980·8.0
The Lady Banker
1980·5.3
Swimming Instructor
1979·5.8
The Song of Roland
1978·5.5
Robert et Robert
1978·6.3
Double Murder
1977·3.5
Focal Point
1977·5.4
The Accuser
1977·6.2
Julie pot-de-colle
1977·4.4
Barocco
1976·6.0
Holy Year
1976·6.8
Scrambled Eggs
1976·6.0
Un animal doué de déraison
1976·6.5
The Judge and the Assassin
1976·6.8
Catherine & Co.
1975·3.3
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
1975·8.5
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974·7.0
The Phantom of Liberty
1974·7.5
Loving in the Rain
1974·5.1
A Murder Is a Murder
1972·5.4
A Season in Hell
1971·5.5
Mafia Things
1971·6.6
Côté cour, côté champs
1971·9.0
Claire's Knee
1970·7.3
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
1970·5.8
The Bride Wore Black
1968·7.1
Manon 70
1968·5.4
Dear Caroline
1968·4.7
Operation San Pietro
1967·6.3
Lamiel
1967·5.2
The Oldest Profession
1967·5.0
Shock Troops
1967·6.7
King of Hearts
1966·6.9
Our Husbands
1966·6.0
I Knew Her Well
1965·7.4
The Mandrake
1965·5.8
Love at Sea
1965·7.1
How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965·4.5
The Real Bargain
1965·4.0
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
1965·5.0
Les Siffleurs
1964·9.0
Comment épouser un premier ministre
1964·5.5
Male Companion
1964·5.3
Circle of Love
1964·5.7
Male Hunt
1964·6.5
Tonio Kröger
1964·6.3
How to Make a French Dish
1964·4.9
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963·5.6
Carom Shots
1963·6.1
People in Luck
1963·5.5
The Sword and the Balance
1963·7.7
Adieu Philippine
1962·6.9
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962·5.7
La banda Casaroli
1962·7.7
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962·6.0
Sentimental Education
1962·5.3
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962·6.5
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962·7.7
The Burning Court
1962·5.1
Hitch-Hike
1962·6.1
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962·5.8
Greed
1962·7.5
A Very Private Affair
1962·5.1
Paris Belongs to Us
1961·6.7
Famous Love Affairs
1961·4.4
The Lions Are Loose
1961·5.9
Three Faces of Sin
1961·7.3
A Woman Is a Woman
1961·7.3
Wise Guys
1961·5.9
A Story of Water
1961·6.6
The Army Game
1960·5.4
The Gigolo
1960·4.0
Le Bel Âge
1960·5.6
Eyes of Love
1959·5.5
The Big Night
1959·6.0
Way of Youth
1959·6.2
The 400 Blows
1959·8.0
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
1959·6.7
The Cousins
1959·6.8
Le Beau Serge
1959·6.9
Christine
1958·6.3
The Lovers
1958·6.6
Et ta sœur…
1958·6.3
School for Coquettes
1958·3.5
Illegal Cargo
1958·5.3
Elevator to the Gallows
1958·7.6
The Overworked
1958·6.1
Anyone Can Kill Me
1957·6.2
The Tricyclist
1957·5.7
The Mischief Makers
1957·6.8
A Girl in a Pocket
1957·5.0
Young Girls Beware
1957·5.5
A Friend of the Family
1957·5.3
Fool’s Mate
1956·6.6
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956·6.1