Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude Brialy

Personal Info

  • Name:

    Jean-Claude Brialy

  • Birthday:

    1933-03-30

  • Place of Birth: Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
  • Gender:

    Male

  • Know For:

    Acting

  • Popularity: 0.4396
  • Also Known As

    J.C. Brialy

    Jean Claude Brialy

    Жан-Клод Бриали

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 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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1977-10-25

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2005-02-08

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1970-06-30

5.0
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1965-03-09

1.0
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1967-04-05

6.7
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1977-04-20

4.4
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1961-09-12

6.3
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1976-03-24

5.0
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1962-09-08

7.5
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1967-08-30

4.8
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1965-12-01

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2004-05-19

3.4
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1959-11-25

4.9
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1964-11-11

1.0
Malady of Love
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1987-09-30

5.0
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1994-05-13

7.2
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2015-09-04

7.3
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1994-10-22

7.0
Arletty, Lady Paname
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2007-07-16

6.0
My New Partner II
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1990-02-07

6.0
Male Companion
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1964-11-04

4.4
King of Hearts
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1966-12-21

6.9
Côté cour, côté champs
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1971-01-01

0.0
Levy & Goliath
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1987-01-27

5.1
Like a Pot of Strawberries
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1974-09-11

5.5
Edith and Marcel
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1983-01-01

5.5
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1958-09-24

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1961-11-03

4.2
Unfair Competition
Unfair Competitiontrue- nonno Mattia Della Rocca

2001-02-23

7.0
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1980-12-12

0.0
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1990-01-01

5.9
La Jalousie
La Jalousietrue- Albert Blondel

1992-09-08

0.0
The Song of Roland
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1978-10-04

4.8
The Overworked
The Overworkedtrue- Jimmy

1958-01-01

6.0
Maschenka
Maschenkatrue- Kolin

1987-03-05

0.0
South Kensington
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2001-12-17

5.1
Le Bel Âge
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1960-02-10

5.3
How to Make a French Dish
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1964-01-29

4.5
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
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2005-01-01

10.0
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1960-11-25

5.1
Cléo from 5 to 7
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1962-04-11

7.7
Notre Dame de la Croisette
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1983-02-23

6.0
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2020-09-09

6.0
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1985-10-02

6.2
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
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2001-03-09

7.5
Double Murder
Double Murdertrue- Van Nijlen

1977-12-23

2.0
Way of Youth
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1959-09-23

6.0
Paris Belongs to Us
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1961-12-13

6.5
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1958-05-21

1.5
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
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2001-03-02

5.5
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
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1990-08-22

8.0
People in Luck
People in Lucktrue- L'automobiliste (« Le Gros Lot »)

1963-04-26

5.7
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truthtrue- Narrator (voice)

1975-02-05

9.0
Père Noël et fils
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1983-12-24

0.0
Les Filles à papa
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2001-02-19

7.0
Greed
Greedtrue- Arthur

1962-03-07

7.5
Stella
Stellatrue- Roland

1983-07-13

2.0
Man of My Life
Man of My Lifetrue- Lucien Vilner

1999-09-22

0.0
The Mischief Makers
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1957-11-14

6.7
Adieu Philippine
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1962-09-25

6.8

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La nuit de l'ététrue

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1979-09-03

0.0
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Directing

1983-12-21

4.8
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Georges Dandin de Molièretrue

Directing

1997-02-07

0.0
Un amour de pluie
Un amour de pluietrue

Directing

1974-01-10

4.4
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Un amour de pluietrue

Writing

1974-01-10

4.4
La dame aux camélias
La dame aux caméliastrue

Directing

1997-01-01

0.0
La dame aux camélias
La dame aux caméliastrue

Writing

1997-01-01

0.0
Cinq-Mars
Cinq-Marstrue

Directing

1981-05-16

1.0
Closed Shutters
Closed Shutterstrue

Writing

1973-02-01

3.5
Closed Shutters
Closed Shutterstrue

Directing

1973-02-01

3.5
Églantine
Églantinetrue

Writing

1972-02-25

6.0
La Jalousie
La Jalousietrue

Directing

1992-09-08

0.0
Les Malheurs de Sophie
Les Malheurs de Sophietrue

Writing

1981-03-25

6.0
Églantine
Églantinetrue

Directing

1972-02-25

6.0
A Rare Bird
A Rare Birdtrue

Directing

1973-08-23

0.0
Les Malheurs de Sophie
Les Malheurs de Sophietrue

Directing

1981-03-25

6.0
The 400 Blows
The 400 Blowstrue

Crew

1959-06-03

8.0

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