Jean Le Poulain

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 dart 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 ChampsÉlysées 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 ComédieFrançaise 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 CCBYSA 30