Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault (September 8th 1910 with the Vésinet - January 22nd 1994 in Paris) is Acteur, Director and director of Théâtre French.

Biography

Former student of the College Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault is initially raises of Charles Dullin, and actor of his troop of 1933 to 1935. At 25 years, its meeting with Etienne Decroux pushed it to be impassioned for MIME. From 1940 to 1946, boarder with the Comédie-Française, it puts in scene the satin Shoe , and Phèdre , two parts which will ensure its celebrity. He is also movie actor, in particular in 1944 in the Children of the paradise , great success of Marcel Carné, which popularizes its genius of the MIME.

In 1946 it founds with his wife Madeleine Renaud the Renaud-Barrault company and settles for ten years with the Marigny theater. As from 1959, André Malraux entrusts the to him Théâtre of Odéon, of which he becomes the director. Barrault expresses there an eclecticism which could be to him reproached: it assembles the philosopher's stones of the traditional repertory (Root, Shakespeare), but creates also the most modern parts: Rhinoceros of Ionesco in 1960, Oh the beautiful days of Beckett in 1963 (setting in scene by Roger Blin - the role of Winnie will remain like one of most famous of Madeleine Renaud), Of the whole days in the trees of Marguerite Duras in 1965, the Folding screens of Jean Genet in 1966 (part who, shortly after the war of Algeria, fact scandal). It also continues to popularize the theater of Paul Claudel.

In May 1968, Jean-Louis Barrault opens the theater of Odéon to the students, who will occupy it during more than one month; Malraux will not forgive it to him, it will have to leave the theater with its company. But it still gives astonishing testimonys of its vitality: it invests a room of wrestling, the Elysium-Montmartre, then will plant its trestles by transforming the Gare of Orsay into Théâtre of Orsay (current the Musée of Orsay) then to the Théâtre of the Roundabout. Barrault signs there original creations starting from its reading of the great authors ( Rabelais , Ainsi spoke Zarathoustra , Zadig ).

Jean Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud with the Cemetery of Passy (Paris)

Its design of the theater

Jean-Louis Barrault always resolutely settled in the present. The theater is for him a total art, near to the life, which makes to the spectator the gift of these moments be seized, in the immediacy of the emotion. The life is expressed initially by the language of the body, which he discovered thanks to the MIME; Barrault wants to be the disciple of Antonin Artaud.

Catalog of films

Its catalog of films supplements
Jenny , of Marcel Carné (1936): the Funny Dromedary
of drama , Flesh-colored Marcel (1937): William Kramps
Altitude 3200 , of Jean Benoit-Levy (1937): Armand
the fabulous Destiny of Desired Clary , Sacha Guitry (1941): Napoleon Bonaparte
the fantastic Symphony , of Christian-Jaque (1942): Hector Berlioz
Children of the paradise , Flesh-colored Marcel (1943): Baptist Debureau
Of man with men , Christian-Jaque (1948): Henri Dunant
If Versailles to me were told , of Sacha Guitry (1954): Fenélon
Museum Grévin , of Jacques Demy (1958): itself
the Will of Doctor Cordelier , Jean Renoir (1959): Doctor Cordelier/Opal
the Dialog of the Carmelite nuns , Philippe Agostini (1960): the MIME
the miracle of the wolves , Andre Hunebelle (1961): Louis XI
the longest Day , of Ken Annakin (1962): the father Roulland
the Great Fun , of Jean-Pierre Mocky (1964): Ditch, bank clerk
the Night of Varennes , Ettore Scola (1982): Nicolas Edme Restif of Breton the
the light of the lake , Francesca Comencini (1988): the old man

See too

Marie-Christine Barrault

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