
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.

Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982

Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972

Midi Première
TV • 1975

30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976

At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966

At Theatre Tonight
TV • 1966

À bout portant
TV • 1968

Divine
MOVIE • 1975

Les Gorilles
MOVIE • 1964

Fric-Frac
MOVIE • 1971

Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
MOVIE • 1982

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
MOVIE • 1962

Signé Furax
MOVIE • 1981

The Hunchback of Paris
MOVIE • 1959

Le Roi du village
MOVIE • 1963

Et qu'ça saute !
MOVIE • 1970

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
MOVIE • 1970

The Empire of Night
MOVIE • 1962