Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting
Biography
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: March 30, 1933
Place of Birth: Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Alfred Lamproie
as Self
as Max Jacob
as Self - Guest
as Hugues de Bouville
as Ferdinand
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Minimo
as Guillaume Ferrare
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
as Projectionist
as Jean-Pierre Muller
as Robert Fresnel
as Ferdinando
as Vandoeuvres
as Mattia Della Rocca
as Robert, dit « Bob »
as Raphaël Mahl
as L'avocat
as Jean-Claude Brialy
as Benny Grimaldi
as Lucien Vilner
as Self
as Morrel's Father
as Dupont Menard
as Rene Sandre
as Abbot
as Arnoult
as Self
as The Japanese Guide
as Roccarotta
as Coligny
as Piantoni
as Self
as Albert Blondel
as Martin
as Éric Ferbac
as Self - Guest
as Pierre Ardennes
as Self
as Charles Laumière
as Self
as Le banquier
as Il giudice
as Gaston
as Klotz
as Frédéric
as Self
as Leroy
as Kolin
as M. Albert
as Bijou / Delaroche
as Willy
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
as Freddy Langlois
as Claude Alvarez
as Sam
as Kaffenberg
as PDG de la chaîne
as Abbot Gril
as Self / Corey (archive footage)
as Le commissaire
as Casanova
as Casanova
as Morcy
as Thomas
as Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
as Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
as Roland
as Gabriel Larcange
as Dr Paul Henry Marshall
as Voragine
as Self
as Me Samuel Kebadjan
as Loulou Barrier
as Professor Martin
as Le comte d'Affiglio
as Monsieur Jacob
as Self
as Le directeur du Lido
as l'historien
as Arsène Lupin / ...
as Arsène Lupin
as Paul Cisterne
as Logan
as Le Seigneur
as Jacques Millet
as Van Nijlen
as Michel Gaur
as Le Rantec
as Jean-Luc Farlot
as Self - Host
as Walt
as Pierre Bizet
as Brumaire
as Claude
as Avocat Villedieu
as Self
as Guillaume
as Self
as Self - Host
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Norbert
as Mr. Foucault
as Seducer
as Paul Kastner
as Self
as Paul Verlaine
as Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
as Jérôme
as Count Anne d'Orgel
as Self
as Corey
as Jean-Paul
as Le comte de Boimussy
as Cajella
as Le comte d'Aubigné
as Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
as Jean
as Serge
as Duke of Clover
as Ottavio Pelagatta
as Dario Marchionni
as Ligurio
as The Disenchanted Man
as Marcel
as The gigolo
as Figurant
as Jean-Claude Brialy
as Philippe Lambert
as The Prince
as Alfred
as Antoine Monteil
as Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
as Jacquot
as Sébastien
as Paul Martin
as L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
as Jean-Philippe
as Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
as Didier Marin
as Corrado Minguzzi
as François de Vierne
as Frédéric Moreau
as The Nurse (uncredited)
as Marc Desgrez
as Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
as Arthur
as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
as Narrateur
as Jean-Marc
as Eric Torring
as Didier Marèze
as Laurent Lénaud
as Émile Récamier
as Ronald
as The Young Man
as Nurse
as Capitaine
as Jacky
as Jean-Claude
as Pierre Ségur
as Scintillone
as Paul Tiercelin
as Man in Street
as Patrick
as Paul
as Self
as Theo Kaiser
as Boy on a ride (uncredited)
as Brice
as François
as Robert
as Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
as Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
as Jimmy
as Un inspecteur de police
as Jean-Claude
as The man in the film
as Jean-Loup
as Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
as Philippe Lemonnier
as Claude
as Self
as Trukhacevskij
as Self