Jean-Claude Brialy

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Age

Movies

177

Born: March 30, 1933 – May 30, 2007
From: Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]

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 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.

Works

177 films

The Lady Banker

19805.3

The 400 Blows

19598.0

Cléo from 5 to 7

19627.7

Queen Margot

19947.2

Elevator to the Gallows

19587.6

The Monster

19947.0

As Luck Would Have It

20025.9

Actors

20005.8

A Very Private Affair

19625.1

Deadly Circuit

19836.1

Manon 70

19685.4

The Phantom of Liberty

19747.5

Adieu Philippine

19626.9

Cover Up

19835.6

The Seven Deadly Sins

19625.8

That Night of Varennes

19826.9

The Bride Wore Black

19687.1

One Hundred and One Nights

19956.1

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

19625.7

The Telephone Always Rings Twice

19855.4

Grand Guignol

19873.9

Bolero

19816.9

A Woman Is a Woman

19617.3

The Oldest Profession

19675.0

I Knew Her Well

19657.4

An Impudent Girl

19856.5

Famous Love Affairs

19614.4

Christine

19586.3

Claire's Knee

19707.3

Gramps Is in the Resistance

19836.9

Inspector Lavardin

19866.2

The Mischief Makers

19576.8

Way of Youth

19596.2

Dear Caroline

19684.7

The Lovers

19586.6

Swimming Instructor

19795.8

La Jalousie

19926.0

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

19865.9

King of Hearts

19667.0

Edith and Marcel

19835.7

Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

19626.0

Les Siffleurs

19649.0

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

19635.6

Shadow Play

19967.3

Lamiel

19675.2

The Cousins

19596.8

Carom Shots

19636.1

A Season in Hell

19715.5

Paris Belongs to Us

19616.7

The Girl from Trieste

19824.8

The Tricyclist

19575.7

Circle of Love

19645.7

The Judge and the Assassin

19766.8

Cap Canaille

19834.1

Arletty, Lady Paname

20076.0

Le Beau Serge

19596.9

Et ta sœur…

19586.3

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

20196.2

The Sword and the Balance

19637.7

A French Woman

19955.5

The Big Night

19596.0

De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs

20047.0

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

20227.2

My New Partner II

19906.0

People : Jet Set 2

20043.4

Male Hunt

19646.5

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

19966.6

Barocco

19766.0

Michel Sardou - Show Sardou

1994

The Car Keys

20035.2

Love at Sea

19657.1

Malady of Love

19875.1

The Fourth Power

19856.4

Tous les garçons...

199210.0

Male Companion

19645.3

Mafia Things

19716.6

Double Murder

19773.5

Operation San Pietro

19676.3

Notre Dame de la Croisette

19837.5

People in Luck

19635.5

To the Extreme

20004.9

Follow My Gaze

19866.2

Monsieur Max

20075.8

Die schöne Wilhelmine

1984

Holy Year

19766.8

Le Moustachu

19875.3

Shock Troops

19676.7

The Kreutzer Sonata

19566.1

The Song of Roland

19785.5

Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana

20015.0

Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé

2014

Greed

19627.5

Catherine & Co.

19753.3

How Not to Rob a Department Store

19654.5

Jean Gabin intime

201010.0

Our Husbands

19666.0

Sarah

19836.0

Fiancés on the Bridge

19626.5

Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth

19758.5

Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés

20018.0

Unfair Competition

20017.0

Quoi? L'éternité.

20058.0

Loving in the Rain

19745.1

How to Make a French Dish

19644.9

Young Girls Beware

19575.5

Like a Pot of Strawberries

19747.0

A Story of Water

19616.5

The Accuser

19776.2

The Mandrake

19655.8

No Fear, No Die

19906.1

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

20206.0

Anna

19985.7

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

20148.0

Three Faces of Sin

19617.3

Père Noël et fils

19838.0

La banda Casaroli

19627.7

Le Bel Âge

19605.6

Sentimental Education

19625.3

Quartier V.I.P.

20054.5

Eyes of Love

19595.5

Pinot simple-flic

19845.6

The Overworked

19586.1

A Girl in a Pocket

19575.0

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs

19906.8

Levy & Goliath

19875.1

Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

20206.0

Hitch-Hike

19626.1

All the Boys Are Called Patrick

19596.7

South Kensington

20015.1

A Murder Is a Murder

19725.4

Kennedy et moi

19996.4

Tribute to Alfred Lepetit

20005.0

Focal Point

19775.4

Comment épouser un premier ministre

19645.5

Fool’s Mate

19566.6

Special Delivery

20025.0

The Innocents

19875.1

Maschenka

19879.0

Les filles, personne s'en méfie

20034.5

Anyone Can Kill Me

19576.2

Le Débutant

19864.1

A Night at the Opera

20206.4

Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon

1999

School for Coquettes

19583.5

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel

19705.8

The Lions Are Loose

19616.0

Les Filles à papa

20017.3

Cinq-Mars

19813.7

Robert et Robert

19786.3

The Burning Court

19625.1

Wise Guys

19615.9

Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures

19655.0

Vivement Truffaut

19857.5

Tonio Kröger

19646.3

Demon Is on the Island

19835.3

Julie pot-de-colle

19774.4

Marriage of the Century

19855.4

Scrambled Eggs

19766.0

Un animal doué de déraison

19766.5

Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film

20035.5

Son of Gascogne

19955.1

A Friend of the Family

19575.3

The Army Game

19605.4

L'Herbe rouge

19857.0

Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens

200510.0

Man of My Life

199910.0

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

19907.5

The Real Bargain

19654.0

Vous êtes de la police ?

2007

Stella

19837.0

The Gigolo

19604.0

Illegal Cargo

19585.3

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

19808.0

Comédie d'été

19895.0

Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...

20198.0

Août

19926.3

Côté cour, côté champs

19719.0