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