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Actor Born: September 8, 1910 in Vésinet, France Death: January 22, 1994 in Paris, France Biography:French actor "Jean-Louis Barrault" studied acting with "Charles Dullin" and pantomime with "Etienne Decroux" while supporting himself as a bookkeeper and flower salesman. Under the direction of Dullin, Barrault made his stage bow in 1931 in Volpone. Never content with mere performing, Barrault became a director with the stage production Autour d'une mere in 1935, the same year that he made his first film, "Les Beaux Jours". Five years later, Barrault joined the Comedie Francaise as actor/director. With many of his Comedie Francaise associates -- including several who'd been marked for arrest by the occupying Nazi troops -- Barrault appeared in his most celebrated film, "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945). As mime-actor Deburau, whose unrequited love for enigmatic femme fatale "Arletty" shapes the destiny of his life, "Jean-Louis Barrault" delivers a matchless performance that is still being studied in... Full Biography
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