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(208)
Self
1982
Self
1992
Self
1959
Self
1956
Self
1998
Self
1972
Self
1990
Self
1975
Self
1987
Self
1975
Self - Host
1975
Self (archive footage)
1975
Self
1968
Self
1976
Self
1971
Self - Guest
1990
Self
1990
Self
1972
Self (archive footage)
1972
Morrel's Father
1998
Raphaël Mahl
2000
Hugues de Bouville
2005
Self - Host
1977
Le comte d'Affiglio
1982
Arsène Lupin / ...
1980
Self - Guest
2006
Guillaume Ferrare
2004
Dupont Menard
1998
Man in Street
1959
Coligny
1994
Self
1954
Roccarotta
1994
Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
1958
Self
1987
The Nurse (uncredited)
1962
Mr. Foucault
1974
Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
1983
The Japanese Guide
1995
Émile Récamier
1961
Dario Marchionni
1965
Corey
1968
Self (archive footage)
2021
L'automobiliste (« Le Gros Lot »)
1963
Abbot
1996
Duke of Clover
1966
Didier Marin
1962
Voragine
1983
Alfred
1964
Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967
Monsieur Jacob
1982
Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
1962
Jérôme
1970
Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
1962
Kaffenberg
1985
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà '
1986
Paul Kastner
1972
François de Vierne
1962
Loulou Barrier
1983
Paul Cisterne
1980
PDG de la chaîne
1985
The Prince
1964
Bijou / Delaroche
1987
Piantoni
1993
Philippe Lambert
1964
Lieutenant Theo Kaiser
1958
Avocat Villedieu
1976
Le directeur du Lido
1981
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Boy on a ride (uncredited)
1958
Morcy
1984
Jean-Claude Brialy
2000
Paul
1959
François
1958
Sam
1985
Professor Martin
1982
Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
1983
The Disenchanted Man
1965
Self
1999
Paul Martin
1963
Self
1995
Van Nijlen
1977
Jean-Marc
1961
Roland
1983
Arnoult
1995
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
2003
Le banquier
1990
Antoine Monteil
1964
Self (archive footage)
2022
Le comte de Boimussy
1968
Le commissaire
1985
Laurent Lénaud
1961
Walt
1976
Un inspecteur de police
1957
nonno Mattia Della Rocca
2001
Freddy Langlois
1986
Cajella
1967
Claude Alvarez
1986
Frédéric
1987
Narrateur
1962
Leroy
1987
Jean-Paul
1968
Seducer
1974
Paul Tiercelin
1959
Self / Corey (archive footage)
1985
Martin
1992
Jean-Claude
1957
Jean
1967
Eric Torring
1961
Nurse
1961
Vandoeuvres
2001
Abbot Gril
1985
Trukhacevskij
1956
Pierre Bizet
1976
Jacky
1960
l'historien
1981
Le Rantec
1977
Jean-Pierre Muller
2002
Frédéric Moreau
1962
The Young Man
1961
Patrick
1959
Claude
1956
Ligurio
1965
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
Rene Sandre
1996
2001
Albert Blondel
1992
Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
1962
Serge
1967
Le Seigneur
1978
Ferdinando
2001
Pierre Ségur
1959
Guillaume
1975
2014
Klotz
1987
Minimo
2004
Norbert
1974
L'avocat
2000
Ottavio Pelagatta
1966
Corrado Minguzzi
1962
Jean-Claude
1960
Self
1983
Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
1958
Thomas
1983
Arsène Lupin
1980
Il giudice
1990
Me Samuel Kebadjan
1983
Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
1957
Capitaine
1960
Alfred Lamproie
2007
The man in the film
1957
Marc Desgrez
1962
The gigolo
1965
Scintillone
1959
Benny Grimaldi
1999
Projectionist
2003
Logan
1979
Jean-Loup
1957
Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
1964
Pierre Ardennes
1990
Brice
1958
Jacquot
1964
Self
2003
Self
2000
Jean-Philippe
1963
Self (archive footage)
2004
Ronald
1961
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
1983
Arthur
1962
Ferdinand
2005
Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
1971
Paul Verlaine
1971
Marcel
1965
Le comte d'Aubigné
1967
Count Anne d'Orgel
1970
Didier Marèze
1961
Self (archive footage)
2020
Self
2005
Self (archive footage)
2014
Robert, dit « Bob »
2001
Brumaire
1976
Jimmy
1958
Claude
1976
Lucien Vilner
1999
Robert Fresnel
2002
Jean-Luc Farlot
1977
Narrator (voice)
1975
Jacques Millet
1978
Self
2010
Willy
1986
Max Jacob
2007
Gabriel Larcange
1983
Charles Laumière
1990
Kolin
1987
Robert
1958
1971
Philippe Lemonnier
1957
Jean-Claude Brialy
1964
Sébastien
1963
M. Albert
1987
Gaston
1989
Casanova
1984
Figurant
1965
Self (archive footage)
2019
Self
2005
Self - Co-Host
1994
Self
2007
Michel Gaur
1977
Casanova
1984
