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. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
44 movies · 9 shows
Ferveur - Comédie Française
1987·0.0
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1986·0.0
Le Malade imaginaire
1986·0.0
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1982·8.0
Signé Furax
1981·5.0
La Dame de chez Maxim
1981·0.0
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979·5.2
Volpone
1978·7.0
La Puce à l'oreille
1978·0.0
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
1978·0.0
Les deux timides
1978·6.0
Le Faiseur
1977·0.0
Le noir te va si bien
1975·8.3
Divine
1975·5.7
The Red Ibis
1975·5.6
Around the World in 80 Days
1975·0.0
Ursule and Grelu
1974·6.3
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973·4.9
La Nuit des rois
1973·0.0
De doux dingues
1972·6.5
Fric-Frac
1971·5.2
Sortie de secours
1970·7.0
Et qu'ça saute !
1970·9.0
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
1970·0.0
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970·6.1
Le minotaure
1969·0.0
Azaïs
1968·8.0
Salut Berthe !
1968·4.9
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968·6.1
Interdit au public
1966·8.0
Seventeenth Heaven
1966·5.6
Les Gorilles
1964·6.4
Un coup dans l'aile
1963·5.5
Le Roi du village
1963·9.0
The Empire of Night
1962·6.0
The Mysteries of Paris
1962·6.6
The Deadly Decoy
1962·5.3
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962·6.0
Sign of the Lion
1962·7.0
Les Livreurs
1961·8.0
Sahara on Fire
1961·8.0
The Hunchback of Paris
1959·6.7
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
1958·8.0
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
1948·4.0