Jean-Claude Brialy
165 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 30, 1933
- Died
- May 30, 2007 (age 74)
- 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.
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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. ...
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Jean-Claude Brialy: movies and TV shows
Acting (166)
- 2014
- 2007 Vous êtes de la police ?
as Alfred Lamproie
- 2007 Monsieur Max
as Max Jacob
- 2005
- 2005 Quartier V.I.P.
as Ferdinand
- 2004 People : Jet Set 2
as Minimo
- 2004
- 2003 The Car Keys
as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
- 2003 Les filles, personne s'en méfie
as Projectionist
- 2002 As Luck Would Have It
as Jean-Pierre Muller
- 2002 Special Delivery
as Robert Fresnel
- 2001 South Kensington
as Ferdinando
- 2001
- 2001 Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
as Vandoeuvres
- 2001 Unfair Competition
as Mattia Della Rocca
- 2001 Les Filles à papa
as Robert, dit « Bob »
- 2000
- 2000 To the Extreme
as L'avocat
- 2000 Actors
as Jean-Claude Brialy
- 1999 Kennedy et moi
as Benny Grimaldi
- 1999 Man of My Life
as Lucien Vilner
- 1998
- 1998
- 1996 Shadow Play
as Rene Sandre
- 1996 Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Abbot
- 1995 A French Woman
as Arnoult
- 1995 One Hundred and One Nights
as The Japanese Guide
- 1994 The Monster
as Roccarotta
- 1994 Queen Margot
as Coligny
- 1993
- 1992 La Jalousie
as Albert Blondel
- 1992 Août
as Martin
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990 No Fear, No Die
as Pierre Ardennes
- 1990 Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
as Charles Laumière
- 1990 My New Partner II
as Le banquier
- 1990 There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
as Il giudice
- 1989 Comédie d'été
as Gaston
- 1987 The Innocents
as Klotz
- 1987 Malady of Love
as Frédéric
- 1987 Le Moustachu
as Leroy
- 1987 Maschenka
as Kolin
- 1987 Grand Guignol
as M. Albert
- 1987 Levy & Goliath
as Bijou / Delaroche
- 1986 Le Débutant
as Willy
- 1986 A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
- 1986 Follow My Gaze
as Freddy Langlois
- 1986 Inspector Lavardin
as Claude Alvarez
- 1985 An Impudent Girl
as Sam
- 1985 Marriage of the Century
as Kaffenberg
- 1985 The Fourth Power
as PDG de la chaîne
- 1985 L'Herbe rouge
as Abbot Gril
- 1985 The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Le commissaire
- 1984
- 1984 Pinot simple-flic
as Morcy
- 1983 Père Noël et fils
as Thomas
- 1983 Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
- 1983 Cover Up
as Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
- 1983 Stella
as Roland
- 1983 Sarah
as Gabriel Larcange
- 1983 Demon Is on the Island
as Dr Paul Henry Marshall
- 1983 Deadly Circuit
as Voragine
- 1983 Cap Canaille
as Me Samuel Kebadjan
- 1983 Edith and Marcel
as Loulou Barrier
- 1982 The Girl from Trieste
as Professor Martin
- 1982
- 1982 That Night of Varennes
as Monsieur Jacob
- 1981 Bolero
as Le directeur du Lido
- 1981 Cinq-Mars
as l'historien
- 1980 The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
as Arsène Lupin
- 1980
- 1980 The Lady Banker
as Paul Cisterne
- 1979 Swimming Instructor
as Logan
- 1978 The Song of Roland
as Le Seigneur
- 1978 Robert et Robert
as Jacques Millet
- 1977 Double Murder
as Van Nijlen
- 1977 Focal Point
as Michel Gaur
- 1977 The Accuser
as Le Rantec
- 1977 Julie pot-de-colle
as Jean-Luc Farlot
- 1976 Barocco
as Walt
- 1976 Holy Year
as Pierre Bizet
- 1976 Scrambled Eggs
as Brumaire
- 1976 Un animal doué de déraison
as Claude
- 1976 The Judge and the Assassin
as Avocat Villedieu
- 1975 Catherine & Co.
as Guillaume
- 1975 Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
as Narrator (voice)
- 1974 Like a Pot of Strawberries
as Norbert
- 1974 The Phantom of Liberty
as Mr. Foucault
- 1974 Loving in the Rain
as Seducer
- 1972 A Murder Is a Murder
as Paul Kastner
- 1971 A Season in Hell
as Paul Verlaine
- 1971 Mafia Things
as Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
- 1971
- 1970 Claire's Knee
as Jérôme
- 1970 Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
as Count Anne d'Orgel
- 1968 Anna
as Serge
- 1968 The Bride Wore Black
as Corey
- 1968 Manon 70
as Jean-Paul
- 1968 Dear Caroline
as Le comte de Boimussy
- 1967 Operation San Pietro
as Cajella
- 1967 Lamiel
as Le comte d'Aubigné
- 1967 The Oldest Profession
as Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
- 1967 Shock Troops
as Jean
- 1966 King of Hearts
as Duke of Clover
- 1966 Our Husbands
as Ottavio Pelagatta
- 1965 I Knew Her Well
as Dario Marchionni
- 1965 The Mandrake
as Ligurio
- 1965 Love at Sea
as The Disenchanted Man
- 1965 How Not to Rob a Department Store
as Marcel
- 1965 The Real Bargain
as The gigolo
- 1965 Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
as Figurant
- 1964 Les Siffleurs
as Jean-Claude Brialy
- 1964 Comment épouser un premier ministre
as Philippe Lambert
- 1964 Male Companion
as The Prince
- 1964 Circle of Love
as Alfred
- 1964 Male Hunt
as Antoine Monteil
- 1964 Tonio Kröger
as Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
- 1964 How to Make a French Dish
as Jacquot
- 1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau
as Sébastien
- 1963 Carom Shots
as Paul Martin
- 1963 People in Luck
as L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
- 1963 The Sword and the Balance
as Jean-Philippe
- 1962 The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Didier Marin
- 1962 La banda Casaroli
as Corrado Minguzzi
- 1962 Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
as François de Vierne
- 1962 Sentimental Education
as Frédéric Moreau
- 1962 Fiancés on the Bridge
as Nurse
- 1962 Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Nurse (uncredited)
- 1962 The Burning Court
as Marc Desgrez
- 1962 Hitch-Hike
as Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
- 1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
as Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
- 1962 Greed
as Arthur
- 1962 A Very Private Affair
as Narrateur
- 1961 Paris Belongs to Us
as Jean-Marc
- 1961 Famous Love Affairs
as Eric Torring
- 1961 The Lions Are Loose
as Didier Marèze
- 1961 Three Faces of Sin
as Laurent Lénaud
- 1961 A Woman Is a Woman
as Émile Récamier
- 1961 Wise Guys
as Ronald
- 1961 A Story of Water
as The Young Man
- 1960 The Army Game
as Capitaine
- 1960 The Gigolo
as Jacky
- 1960 Le Bel Âge
as Jean-Claude
- 1959 Eyes of Love
as Pierre Ségur
- 1959 The Big Night
as Scintillone
- 1959 Way of Youth
as Paul Tiercelin
- 1959 The 400 Blows
as L' Homme dans la rue
- 1959 All the Boys Are Called Patrick
as Patrick
- 1959 The Cousins
as Paul
- 1959 Le Beau Serge
as François
- 1958 Christine
as Theo Kaiser
- 1958 The Mischief Makers
as The man in the film
- 1958 The Lovers
as Boy on a ride (uncredited)
- 1958 Et ta sœur…
as Brice
- 1958 School for Coquettes
as Robert
- 1958 Illegal Cargo
as Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
- 1958 Elevator to the Gallows
as Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
- 1958 The Overworked
as Jimmy
- 1957 Anyone Can Kill Me
as Un inspecteur de police
- 1957 The Tricyclist
as Jean-Claude
- 1957 A Girl in a Pocket
as Jean-Loup
- 1957 Young Girls Beware
as Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
- 1957 A Friend of the Family
as Philippe Lemonnier
- 1956 Fool’s Mate
as Claude
- 1956 The Kreutzer Sonata
as Trukhacevskij
Behind the camera (13)
- 1997 Georges Dandin de Molière
Director
- 1997 La dame aux camélias
Director, Adaptation
- 1992 La Jalousie
Director
- 1990 The Childhood of Art
Thanks
- 1983 A Good Little Devil
Director
- 1981 Cinq-Mars
Director
- 1981 Les Malheurs de Sophie
Screenplay, Director
- 1979 La nuit de l'été
Director
- 1974 Loving in the Rain
Director, Screenplay
- 1973 A Rare Bird
Director
- 1973 Closed Shutters
Writer, Director
- 1972 Églantine
Writer, Director
- 1959 The 400 Blows
Thanks
Talk shows and appearances (44)
- 2022
- 2021 Archives secrètes
1 episode
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019
- 2014
- 2010
- 2007
- 2006 On n'est pas couché
1 episode
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998 Vivement dimanche
14 episodes
- 1995
- 1994
- 1992 Coucou c'est nous !
1 episode
- 1990 Les Nuls, l'émission
1 episode
- 1990 Stars 90
1 episode
- 1990 Fort Boyard
1 episode
- 1987 Sacrée soirée
8 episodes
- 1987 Matin Bonheur
3 episodes
- 1985
- 1983
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
6 episodes
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode
- 1977 Fan School
11 episodes
- 1976 Cérémonie des César
3 episodes
- 1976 30 millions d'amis
2 episodes
- 1975 Numéro un
13 episodes
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
4 episodes
- 1972 Midi trente
4 episodes
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier
4 episodes
- 1971 Samedi soir
3 episodes
- 1968 À bout portant
1 episode
- 1964 Pour le plaisir
1 episode
- 1962
- 1959 Discorama
1 episode
- 1956 Cinépanorama
5 episodes
- 1954 Reflets de Cannes
1 episode