Jean-Claude Brialy
Born
30 March 1933 (93)
Place of Birth
Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Also known as
J.C. Brialy, Jean Claude Brialy
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...
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.
Filmography (40)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
2020
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
2019
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
2014
Jean Gabin intime
2010
Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007
Monsieur Max
2007
Quartier V.I.P.
2005
Quoi? L'éternité.
2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
2004
People : Jet Set 2
2004
The Car Keys
2003
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
2003
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
2003
As Luck Would Have It
2002
Special Delivery
2002
South Kensington
2001
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
Unfair Competition
2001
Les Filles à papa
2001
To the Extreme
2000
Actors
2000
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000
Kennedy et moi
1999
Man of My Life
1999
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999
Anna
1998
Georges Dandin de Molière
1997
🎬 Director
La dame aux camélias
1997
🎬 Director
Shadow Play
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
A French Woman
1995
Son of Gascogne
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
1995