Jean-Claude Brialy
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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Cast
The Lovers
Boy on a ride (uncredited)
Vivement Truffaut
Self / Corey (archive footage)
The Bride Wore Black
Corey
The Lady Banker
Paul Cisterne
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
François de Vierne
The Burning Court
Marc Desgrez
The Phantom of Liberty
Mr. Foucault
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Self
Les Siffleurs
Jean-Claude Brialy
A Woman Is a Woman
Émile Récamier
Demon Is on the Island
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
As Luck Would Have It
Jean-Pierre Muller
The Night of Varennes
Monsieur Jacob
Bolero
Le directeur du Lido
The Judge and the Assassin
Avocat Villedieu
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Unknown
Inspector Lavardin
Claude Alvarez
A Story of Water
The Young Man
The Girl from Trieste
Professor Martin
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Projectionist
Marriage of the Century
Kaffenberg
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Abbot
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
Kennedy et moi
Benny Grimaldi
Illegal Cargo
Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
Fiancés on the Bridge
Nurse
The Seven Deadly Sins
Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
Operation San Pietro
Cajella
A Very Private Affair
Narrateur
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Car Keys
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Sébastien
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Figurant
The Lions Are Loose
Didier Marèze
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
One Hundred and One Nights
The Japanese Guide
Special Delivery
Robert Fresnel
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Self (archive footage)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Patrick
Hitch-Hike
Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
Our Husbands
Ottavio Pelagatta
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Le commissaire
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Didier Marin
The Oldest Profession
Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Follow My Gaze
Freddy Langlois
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Self
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Self
A Girl in a Pocket
Jean-Loup
The Sword and the Balance
Jean-Philippe
Cover Up
Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Marcel
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
A Murder Is a Murder
Paul Kastner
Sentimental Education
Frédéric Moreau
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Self (archive footage)
Robert et Robert
Jacques Millet
Anyone Can Kill Me
Un inspecteur de police
A Season in Hell
Paul Verlaine
Cap Canaille
Me Samuel Kebadjan
The Kreutzer Sonata
Trukhacevskij
Mafia Things
Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
Vous êtes de la police ?
Alfred Lamproie
The Tricyclist
Jean-Claude
The 400 Blows
Man in Street
Love at Sea
The Disenchanted Man
Dear Caroline
Le comte de Boimussy
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Self - Co-Host
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Casanova
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Self (archive footage)
Elevator to the Gallows
Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
Young Girls Beware
Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
No Fear, No Die
Pierre Ardennes
A Friend of the Family
Philippe Lemonnier
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Count Anne d'Orgel
The Real Bargain
The gigolo
Julie pot-de-colle
Jean-Luc Farlot
Three Faces of Sin
Laurent Lénaud
Un animal doué de déraison
Claude
La banda Casaroli
Corrado Minguzzi
I Knew Her Well
Dario Marchionni
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Philippe Lambert
My New Partner II
Le banquier
King of Hearts
Duke of Clover
Côté cour, côté champs
Unknown
Levy & Goliath
Bijou / Delaroche
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Norbert
Edith and Marcel
Loulou Barrier
Famous Love Affairs
Eric Torring
Unfair Competition
Mattia Della Rocca
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Il giudice
La Jalousie
Albert Blondel
The Song of Roland
Le Seigneur
South Kensington
Ferdinando
How to Make a French Dish
Jacquot
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Self
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Nurse (uncredited)
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Self
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
The Fourth Power
PDG de la chaîne
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Unknown
Way of Youth
Paul Tiercelin
Paris Belongs to Us
Jean-Marc
School for Coquettes
Robert
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Vandoeuvres
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Charles Laumière
People in Luck
L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Narrator (voice)
Les Filles à papa
Robert, dit « Bob »
Man of My Life
Lucien Vilner
The Mischief Makers
The man in the film
Adieu Philippine
Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Self (archive footage)
