Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting
Born: March 30, 1933 · Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Died: May 30, 2007 (aged 74)
Highest Rated
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.
Photos (4)
Movies (155)
The Lady Banker
Paul Cisterne
The 400 Blows
L' Homme dans la rue
Elevator to the Gallows
Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Nurse (uncredited)
Follow My Gaze
Freddy Langlois
Queen Margot
Coligny
Actors
Jean-Claude Brialy
The Monster
Roccarotta
The Phantom of Liberty
Mr. Foucault
Deadly Circuit
Voragine
Manon 70
Jean-Paul
A Very Private Affair
Narrateur
A Woman Is a Woman
Émile Récamier
The Bride Wore Black
Corey
The Oldest Profession
Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Cover Up
Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Sébastien
The Tricyclist
Jean-Claude
Claire's Knee
Jérôme
Christine
Theo Kaiser
Carom Shots
Paul Martin
One Hundred and One Nights
The Japanese Guide
Malady of Love
Frédéric
That Night of Varennes
Monsieur Jacob
The Cousins
Paul
I Knew Her Well
Dario Marchionni
The Seven Deadly Sins
Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
The Lovers
Boy on a ride (uncredited)
Le Beau Serge
François
Shadow Play
Rene Sandre
Double Murder
Van Nijlen
Les Siffleurs
Jean-Claude Brialy
Inspector Lavardin
Claude Alvarez
Bolero
Le directeur du Lido
The Mischief Makers
The man in the film
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Le commissaire
Way of Youth
Paul Tiercelin
Circle of Love
Alfred
A Season in Hell
Paul Verlaine
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Didier Marin
An Impudent Girl
Sam
Edith and Marcel
Loulou Barrier
Shock Troops
Jean
Focal Point
Michel Gaur
The Girl from Trieste
Professor Martin
Monsieur Max
Max Jacob
Paris Belongs to Us
Jean-Marc
Operation San Pietro
Cajella
My New Partner II
Le banquier
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Boimussy
La Jalousie
Albert Blondel
The Fourth Power
PDG de la chaîne
The Sword and the Balance
Jean-Philippe
King of Hearts
Duke of Clover
Male Hunt
Antoine Monteil
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
François de Vierne
Unfair Competition
Mattia Della Rocca
The Big Night
Scintillone
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Abbot
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
Lamiel
Le comte d'Aubigné
The Mandrake
Ligurio
People in Luck
L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
The Judge and the Assassin
Avocat Villedieu
Love at Sea
The Disenchanted Man
Famous Love Affairs
Eric Torring
Male Companion
The Prince
People : Jet Set 2
Minimo
As Luck Would Have It
Jean-Pierre Muller
The Accuser
Le Rantec
The Burning Court
Marc Desgrez
Catherine & Co.
Guillaume
Pinot simple-flic
Morcy
The Car Keys
Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
Loving in the Rain
Seducer
Sarah
Gabriel Larcange
Holy Year
Pierre Bizet
Hitch-Hike
Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
Anna
Serge
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001
No Fear, No Die
Pierre Ardennes
A French Woman
Arnoult
Cap Canaille
Me Samuel Kebadjan
Fiancés on the Bridge
Nurse
South Kensington
Ferdinando
Swimming Instructor
Logan
Marriage of the Century
Kaffenberg
Fool’s Mate
Claude
Greed
Arthur
Grand Guignol
M. Albert
Sentimental Education
Frédéric Moreau
Tous les garçons...
1992
To the Extreme
L'avocat
The Army Game
Capitaine
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Marcel
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
The Lions Are Loose
Didier Marèze
The Song of Roland
Le Seigneur
Mafia Things
Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
Quartier V.I.P.
Ferdinand
Père Noël et fils
Thomas
How to Make a French Dish
Jacquot
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Il giudice
Anyone Can Kill Me
Un inspecteur de police
The Overworked
Jimmy
Our Husbands
Ottavio Pelagatta
Stella
Roland
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Vandoeuvres
Eyes of Love
Pierre Ségur
L'Herbe rouge
Abbot Gril
Et ta sœur…
Brice
Wise Guys
Ronald
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Projectionist
The Real Bargain
The gigolo
A Murder Is a Murder
Paul Kastner
Special Delivery
Robert Fresnel
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Patrick
Scrambled Eggs
Brumaire
Three Faces of Sin
Laurent Lénaud
La banda Casaroli
Corrado Minguzzi
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Norbert
A Story of Water
The Young Man
Maschenka
Kolin
Levy & Goliath
Bijou / Delaroche
The Kreutzer Sonata
Trukhacevskij
Man of My Life
Lucien Vilner
The Innocents
Klotz
Kennedy et moi
Benny Grimaldi
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Philippe Lambert
A Friend of the Family
Philippe Lemonnier
Barocco
Walt
Demon Is on the Island
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
A Girl in a Pocket
Jean-Loup
Cinq-Mars
l'historien
Illegal Cargo
Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Count Anne d'Orgel
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Charles Laumière
School for Coquettes
Robert
Comédie d'été
Gaston
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Figurant
Young Girls Beware
Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
Le Débutant
Willy
Robert et Robert
Jacques Millet
Un animal doué de déraison
Claude
Vous êtes de la police ?
Alfred Lamproie
Les Filles à papa
Robert, dit « Bob »
Le Bel Âge
Jean-Claude
Julie pot-de-colle
Jean-Luc Farlot
Le Moustachu
Leroy
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Narrator (voice)
Août
Martin
The Gigolo
Jacky
TV Shows (10)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Morrel's Father · 4 eps
The Blue Bicycle
Raphaël Mahl · 3 eps
The Accursed Kings
Hugues de Bouville · 1 eps
Mozart
Le comte d'Affiglio · 6 eps
Ferbac
Éric Ferbac · 6 eps
Arsène Lupin joue et perd
Arsène Lupin / ... · 6 eps
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Casanova · 4 eps
Colpo di coda
Piantoni · 2 eps
La Grande Béké
Dupont Menard · 2 eps
Le Président Ferrare
Guillaume Ferrare · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (44)
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 8 eps
Vivement dimanche
Self · 14 eps
Fort Boyard
Self · 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 6 eps
Fan School
Self - Host · 11 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 4 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 4 eps
Numéro un
Self · 10 eps
Numéro un
Self - Host · 2 eps
Numéro un
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - Host · 3 eps
Discorama
Self · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 3 eps
Midi trente
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · 1 eps
30 millions d'amis
Self · 2 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 5 eps
Coucou c'est nous !
Self · 1 eps
Les Nuls, l'émission
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Stars 90
Self · 1 eps
À bout portant
Self · 1 eps
Reflets de Cannes
Self · 1 eps
Matin Bonheur
Self · 3 eps
Pour le plaisir
Self · 1 eps
Adieu Philippine
Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Archives secrètes
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Self - Actor (archive footage)
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
Arletty, Lady Paname
Self
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Self (archive footage)
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self
Vivement Truffaut
Self / Corey (archive footage)
Quoi? L'éternité.
Self
Son of Gascogne
Self
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Self
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Self
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Self (archive footage)
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Self
Jean Gabin intime
Self
Directing (11)
La Jalousie
Director
Loving in the Rain
Director
Closed Shutters
Director
Cinq-Mars
Director
Églantine
Director
A Rare Bird
Director
A Good Little Devil
Director
Les Malheurs de Sophie
Director
La dame aux camélias
Director
Georges Dandin de Molière
Director
La nuit de l'été
Director
