Jean-Claude Brialy
Mar 30, 1933 — May 30, 2007 (74 years)
Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
146 Movies
10 Series
Jean-Claude Brialy, an actor from Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria], began their career in the 1950s. Their performance in The 400 Blows as L' Homme dans la rue remains one of the most memorable of their filmography. Other notable titles in their filmography include The Monster and Gramps Is in the Resistance. Their filmography spans 146 films and 10 TV productions across 70 years, working mainly across genres like drama, comedy, romance.
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Jean-Claude Brialy
146 Movies
10 Series
Jean-Claude Brialy, an actor from Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria], began their career in the 1950s. Their performance in The 400 Blows as L' Homme dans la rue remains one of the most memorable of their filmography. Other notable titles in their filmography include The Monster and Gramps Is in the Resistance. Their filmography spans 146 films and 10 TV productions across 70 years, working mainly across genres like drama, comedy, romance.
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The Lady Banker
1980
The 400 Blows
1959
Actors
2000
Deadly Circuit
1983
Cover Up
1983
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962
Grand Guignol
1987
A Very Private Affair
1962
Manon 70
1968
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Shadow Play
1996
Dear Caroline
1968
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
The Mischief Makers
1957
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
The Tricyclist
1957
Queen Margot
1994
Inspector Lavardin
1986
Swimming Instructor
1979
Cap Canaille
1983
Lamiel
1967
Carom Shots
1963
Way of Youth
1959
Sarah
1983
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963
I Knew Her Well
1965
Double Murder
1977
The Monster
1994
Et ta sœur…
1958
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
Christine
1958
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
Bolero
1981
Edith and Marcel
1983
An Impudent Girl
1985
That Night of Varennes
1982
The Bride Wore Black
1968
A Woman Is a Woman
1961
The Song of Roland
1978
Claire's Knee
1970
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
The Fourth Power
1985
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
Love at Sea
1965
Loving in the Rain
1974
Shock Troops
1967
Operation San Pietro
1967
Malady of Love
1987
King of Hearts
1966
Holy Year
1976
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2005
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2005
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2004
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2004
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2003
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2003
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2001
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Is Jean-Claude Brialy still alive?
Jean-Claude Brialy passed away on May 30, 2007 at age 74.
What are the most famous roles of Jean-Claude Brialy?
Jean-Claude Brialy is best known for roles in The 400 Blows, Cléo from 5 to 7, Elevator to the Gallows.
How many movies has Jean-Claude Brialy been in?
Over a 51-year career (since 1956), Jean-Claude Brialy has appeared in 167 movies and 33 TV shows.
What was Jean-Claude Brialy's first movie?
The career of Jean-Claude Brialy began with The Kreutzer Sonata (1956).
What is Jean-Claude Brialy's most recent movie or series?
Jean-Claude Brialy's most recent release is Jean Gabin intime, which premiered on February 9, 2010.
What TV shows has Jean-Claude Brialy appeared in?
On television, Jean-Claude Brialy has appeared in The Count of Monte Cristo, Fort Boyard, The Blue Bicycle, The Accursed Kings.
Jean-Claude Brialy
1933-03-30 · Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
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. ...
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