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.

Filmography

• 1988Le Saut du lit — Stage Director
• 1986Le Malade imaginaire — Argan, Stage Director
• 1982Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon — Monsieur Perrichon, Stage Director
• 1981La Dame de chez Maxim — le Général Petypon du Grêlé
• 1981Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
• 1981Signé Furax — Klakmuf
• 1979I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs — Drouillard
• 1978La Puce à l'oreille — Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
• 1978Les deux timides — Thibaudier, Stage Director
• 1978Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires — Lucien Beix
• 1978Volpone — Volpone
• 1977Le Faiseur — M. Mercadet
• 1975Around the World in 80 Days — Phileas Fogg
• 1975Divine — Bobovitch
• Le Tour du monde en 80 jours — Phileas Fogg
• 1975Le noir te va si bien — John Mac Lesby / Jules Trombonne, Stage Director
• 1975The Red Ibis — Margos
• 1974Pétrus — Stage Director
• 1974Ursule and Grelu
• 1973La Nuit des rois — Malvolio, Stage Director
• 1973The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot — Brother Albaret
• 1972De doux dingues — Paul Lecuyer
• 1972Huit femmes — Stage Director
• 1971Fric-Frac — Jo, Stage Director
• 1970Et qu'ça saute ! — Don Pedro
• 1970Le Bourgeois gentilhomme — Monsieur Jourdain
• 1970She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks — Gruson
• 1970Sortie de secours — Harpagon
• 1969Le minotaure — Michou
• 1968A Strange Kind of Colonel — Pastor
• 1968Azaïs — Le baron Wurtz, Stage Director
• 1968Salut Berthe ! — Step Dad
• At Theatre Tonight — Hervé Montagne, Le baron Wurtz, Stage Director
• 1966Interdit au public — Hervé Montagne, Stage Director
• 1966Seventeenth Heaven — L'homme à la voiture
• 1964Les Gorilles — The stage director
• 1963Le Roi du village
• 1963Un coup dans l'aile — Levaillant
• 1962Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin — Le préfet de police
• 1962Sign of the Lion — Le Clochard
• 1962The Deadly Decoy — Lehurit aka 'L'Archevêque'
• 1962The Empire of Night — David Balkis, Emperor of the night
• 1962The Mysteries of Paris — The schoolmaster
• 1961Les Livreurs — Professor Alexis Schmutz
• 1961Sahara on Fire
• 1959The Hunchback of Paris — Peyrolles
• 1958Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon — M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
• 1948Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 1987Ferveur - Comédie Française — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Système 2 — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• À bout portant — Self