JeanLouis Barrault 8 September 1910 Le Vésinet Yvelines 22 January 1994 was a French actor director and mime artist training that served him well when he portrayed the 19thcentury mime JeanGaspard Deburau Baptiste Debureau in Marcel Carnés 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis Children of Paradise JeanLouis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted from 1933 to 1935 At 25 years of age he met and studied with the mime Étienne Decroux From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the ComédieFrançaise where he directed productions of Paul Claudels Le Soulier de satin and Jean Racines Phèdre two plays that made his reputation Over his career he acted in nearly 50 movies including Les beaux jours Jenny LOr dans la Montagne and Sous les Yeux doccident In 1940 he married the actress Madeleine Renaud They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively including in South America He was the uncle of actress MarieChristine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83 JeanLouis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris JeanLouis Barrault Reflections on the Theatre In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well To read for example To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of ones own To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading To be able to read Barrault from Melinda Camber Porters Through Parisian Eyes Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life Desire is what drives me When I go to sleep I feel I have experienced a small death so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn Description above from the Wikipedia article JeanLouis Barrault licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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