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Jean-Louis Barrault
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8 September 1910 - 22 January 1994
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Famous French actor, producer and director Jean-Louis Barrault was born in the city of Vesin, September 8, 1910. He studied at the elite Lyceum Chantal in Paris, successfully graduated from it. He attended painting courses at the Louvre School. But at first he worked in fields far from art: an accountant, a flower seller. He studied acting at Charles Dullen's courses, then played in his famous troupe (1933-1935). However, he began his stage activity for the first time at the Atelier Theatre, where
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Famous French actor, producer and director Jean-Louis Barrault was born in the city of Vesin, September 8, 1910. He studied at the elite Lyceum Chantal in Paris, successfully graduated from it. He attended painting courses at the Louvre School. But at first he worked in fields far from art: an accountant, a flower seller.
He studied acting at Charles Dullen's courses, then played in his famous troupe (1933-1935). However, he began his stage activity for the first time at the Atelier Theatre, where he began to stage performances as a director since 1931.
Later he tried his hand at directing and at the Dullen Theatre, produced plays based on the plays of Knut Hamsun, William Faulkner and other classics. From 1940 to 1946 he worked in the troupe of the legendary theater “Comedies Française” – both as an actor and as a director.
In different years at various theater venues put William Shakespeare, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Baptiste Molière. In 1940 he married actress Madeleine Reno. In 1946, they formed a theater company together.
Barrot has long been artistic director of Theatre Le France. Then he created and headed his own theater D'Orsay, then it was renamed the theater Rod Point. Jean Louis Barrot was fond of the art of pantomime, developed it. In 1944, he even played the mime of Batiste Debureau in Marcel Carnet’s famous painting “Children of the District”
http://films.imhonet.ru/element/189679/. Among his other outstanding roles in film, Berlioz is distinguished in the film Fantastic Symphony (1942), as well as his work in the films The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1958).
Chappaqua (1966) and The New World (1982).
In the last years of his life, Barro gave more and more energy to the theater. He died on January 22, 1994. In the same year, his wife left the world.