Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting
🎂 1933-03-30
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.
Cast credits(209)
Self
1982
Self
1975
Self
1990
Self
1998
Self
1987
Casanova
1984
Self
1972
Self
1975
Self - Host
1975
Self (archive footage)
1975
l'historien
1981
Self
1990
Self
2000
Self
1972
Self (archive footage)
1972
Self
1971
Self
1959
Self - Host
1977
Self
1956
Morrel's Father
1998
Self
1992
Roccarotta
1994
Capitaine
1960
Roland
1983
Self
1976
Brumaire
1976
Self
1968
Man in Street
1959
Minimo
2004
Alfred
1964
Coligny
1994
Guillaume
1975
Claude
1976
Dario Marchionni
1965
Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
1983
Eric Torring
1961
Mr. Foucault
1974
Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
1958
Self - Guest
1990
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà '
1986
M. Albert
1987
Abbot Gril
1985
Voragine
1983
Kolin
1987
Self
1954
The Nurse (uncredited)
1962
Paul Cisterne
1980
Michel Gaur
1977
Sam
1985
The gigolo
1965
Morcy
1984
Theo Kaiser
1958
Loulou Barrier
1983
Jérôme
1970
Pierre Bizet
1976
Le directeur du Lido
1981
Self / Corey (archive footage)
1985
Self
1987
Le Rantec
1977
Claude Alvarez
1986
Laurent Lénaud
1961
Antoine Monteil
1964
Corey
1968
2001
Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
1962
Freddy Langlois
1986
Hugues de Bouville
2005
Jean-Claude Brialy
1964
Bijou / Delaroche
1987
Jean-Loup
1957
Le comte de Boimussy
1968
Il giudice
1990
Brice
1958
Jean-Claude Brialy
2000
Le banquier
1990
Duke of Clover
1966
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
2003
Self (archive footage)
2022
Vandoeuvres
2001
Professor Martin
1982
Ferdinando
2001
Le commissaire
1985
Paul Tiercelin
1959
Self
1983
2014
The Prince
1964
Serge
1967
Seducer
1974
Cajella
1967
Kaffenberg
1985
Self (archive footage)
2019
Didier Marin
1962
Self
1999
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
1983
Self
2007
François
1958
Jacky
1960
Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
1962
Jacquot
1964
Norbert
1974
Corrado Minguzzi
1962
Self
1995
Self - Guest
2006
PDG de la chaîne
1985
Arnoult
1995
Sébastien
1963
Marcel
1965
L'automobiliste (« Le Gros Lot »)
1963
Lucien Vilner
1999
Marc Desgrez
1962
Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
1964
Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
1957
The Japanese Guide
1995
Jean-Marc
1961
L'avocat
2000
Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967
The Young Man
1961
Jean
1967
Émile Récamier
1961
Ronald
1961
Raphaël Mahl
2000
Pierre Ségur
1959
Self (archive footage)
2021
Rene Sandre
1996
The Disenchanted Man
1965
Willy
1986
The man in the film
1957
Martin
1992
Boy on a ride (uncredited)
1958
Jimmy
1958
Jean-Claude
1957
Robert
1958
Paul Verlaine
1971
Didier Marèze
1961
Paul Martin
1963
Frédéric
1987
Abbot
1996
Nurse
1961
Le comte d'Affiglio
1982
Jean-Paul
1968
Jacques Millet
1978
Figurant
1965
Jean-Claude
1960
Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
1962
Paul
1959
Mattia Della Rocca
2001
Avocat Villedieu
1976
Monsieur Jacob
1982
Self
2003
Logan
1979
Gabriel Larcange
1983
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Robert Fresnel
2002
Philippe Lambert
1964
Claude
1956
Me Samuel Kebadjan
1983
Narrateur
1962
Le Seigneur
1978
Robert, dit « Bob »
2001
Max Jacob
2007
Self (archive footage)
2004
Scintillone
1959
Count Anne d'Orgel
1970
Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
1971
Arsène Lupin / ...
1980
Albert Blondel
1992
François de Vierne
1962
Self (archive footage)
2020
Thomas
1983
Self
2005
Le comte d'Aubigné
1967
Van Nijlen
1977
Paul Kastner
1972
Un inspecteur de police
1957
Trukhacevskij
1956
Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
1983
Jean-Pierre Muller
2002
Ligurio
1965
Self - Co-Host
1994
Patrick
1959
Ottavio Pelagatta
1966
Éric Ferbac
1991
Charles Laumière
1990
Piantoni
1993
1971
Jean-Philippe
1963
Guillaume Ferrare
2004
Leroy
1987
Casanova
1984
Benny Grimaldi
1999
Alfred Lamproie
2007
Walt
1976
Pierre Ardennes
1990
Jean-Luc Farlot
1977
Frédéric Moreau
1962
Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
1958
Arthur
1962
Self
2005
Dupont Menard
1998
Gaston
1989
Arsène Lupin
1980
Philippe Lemonnier
1957
Klotz
1987
Self
2010
Projectionist
2003
Self (archive footage)
2020
Ferdinand
2005
Narrator (voice)
1975
Self (archive footage)
2014
