Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault

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...

Known For

The Longest Day

as Father Louis Roulland

Children of Paradise

as Baptiste Debureau

La Ronde

as The Poet

Cast Credits

That Night of Varennes

as Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne

Chappaqua

as Dr. Benoit

The Longest Day

as Father Louis Roulland

Experiment in Evil

as Dr. Cordelier / Opale

La Ronde

as The Poet

Man to Men

as Henri Dunant

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

Mirages

as Pierre Bonvais

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

Crew Credits

Prosessen

Writer