Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting
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.
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 74)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
Age 87 (now 74)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
as Self (archive footage)
Age 87 (now 74)
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
as Self (archive footage)
Age 86 (now 74)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Age 85 (now 74)
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
as Self (archive footage)
Age 81 (now 74)
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
as Self
Age 71 (now 74)
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
as Self (archive footage)
Age 71 (now 74)
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
as Projectionist
Age 70 (now 74)
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
as Self
Age 65 (now 74)
One Hundred and One Nights
as The Japanese Guide
Age 61 (now 74)
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
as Charles Laumière
Age 57 (now 74)
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
as Il giudice
Age 56 (now 74)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
Age 53 (now 74)
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Le commissaire
Age 51 (now 74)
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
Age 50 (now 74)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
as Arsène Lupin
Age 47 (now 74)
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
as Narrator (voice)
Age 41 (now 74)
The Oldest Profession
as Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Age 34 (now 74)
How Not to Rob a Department Store
as Marcel
Age 32 (now 74)
Comment épouser un premier ministre
as Philippe Lambert
Age 31 (now 74)
Adieu Philippine
as Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Age 29 (now 74)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Didier Marin
Age 29 (now 74)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as François de Vierne
Age 29 (now 74)
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
Age 28 (now 74)
Elevator to the Gallows
as Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
Age 24 (now 74)
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Morrel's Father
Age 65 (now 74)
Arsène Lupin joue et perd
as Arsène Lupin / ...
Age 47 (now 74)
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Also Known As
J.C. Brialy, Jean Claude Brialy
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