Jean-Claude Brialy
Acting • Born 1933-03-30 – Died 2007-05-30
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.
Filmography
211 credits
The Cousins
Movie • 1959
Paul
The Lovers
Movie • 1958
Boy on a ride (uncredited)
Vivement Truffaut
Movie • 1985
Self / Corey (archive footage)
Claire's Knee
Movie • 1970
Jérôme
Catherine & Co.
Movie • 1975
Guillaume
The Bride Wore Black
Movie • 1968
Corey
Swimming Instructor
Movie • 1979
Logan
The Lady Banker
Movie • 1980
Paul Cisterne
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1962
François de Vierne
Male Hunt
Movie • 1964
Antoine Monteil
Christine
Movie • 1958
Theo Kaiser
The Phantom of Liberty
Movie • 1974
Mr. Foucault
The Burning Court
Movie • 1962
Marc Desgrez
Le Beau Serge
Movie • 1959
François
Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Movie • 1999
Self
Les Siffleurs
Movie • 1964
Jean-Claude Brialy
A Woman Is a Woman
Movie • 1961
Émile Récamier
Demon Is on the Island
Movie • 1983
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
As Luck Would Have It
Movie • 2002
Jean-Pierre Muller
That Night of Varennes
Movie • 1982
Monsieur Jacob
Pinot simple-flic
Movie • 1984
Morcy
Bolero
Movie • 1981
Le directeur du Lido
Carom Shots
Movie • 1963
Paul Martin
The Judge and the Assassin
Movie • 1976
Avocat Villedieu
An Impudent Girl
Movie • 1985
Sam
Deadly Circuit
Movie • 1983
Voragine
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Movie • 2014
To the Extreme
Movie • 2000
L'avocat
Inspector Lavardin
Movie • 1986
Claude Alvarez
Août
Movie • 1992
Martin
Circle of Love
Movie • 1964
Alfred
Anna
Movie • 1998
Serge
Grand Guignol
Movie • 1987
M. Albert
A Story of Water
Movie • 1961
The Young Man
The Girl from Trieste
Movie • 1982
Professor Martin
Barocco
Movie • 1976
Walt
Son of Gascogne
Movie • 1995
Self
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Movie • 2003
Projectionist
Marriage of the Century
Movie • 1985
Kaffenberg
The Innocents
Movie • 1987
Klotz
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Movie • 1996
Abbot
The Accuser
Movie • 1977
Le Rantec
Actors
Movie • 2000
Jean-Claude Brialy
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Movie • 1983
Le joueur de tennis flagorneur
Kennedy et moi
Movie • 1999
Benny Grimaldi
The Big Night
Movie • 1959
Scintillone
Wise Guys
Movie • 1961
Ronald
Illegal Cargo
Movie • 1958
Jean, le jeune journaliste assassiné
Fiancés on the Bridge
Movie • 1962
Nurse
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1962
Arthur (segment "L'avarice")
The Mandrake
Movie • 1965
Ligurio
Cinq-Mars
Movie • 1981
l'historien
Operation San Pietro
Movie • 1967
Cajella
A Very Private Affair
Movie • 1962
Narrateur
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Car Keys
Movie • 2003
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Movie • 1963
Sébastien
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
Movie • 1965
Figurant
The Lions Are Loose
Movie • 1961
Didier Marèze
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Movie • 1986
Un spectateur de '40 ans déjà'
One Hundred and One Nights
Movie • 1995
The Japanese Guide
Special Delivery
Movie • 2002
Robert Fresnel
Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Movie • 1959
Patrick
Hitch-Hike
Movie • 1962
Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses
Our Husbands
Movie • 1966
Ottavio Pelagatta
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Movie • 1985
Le commissaire
Le Moustachu
Movie • 1987
Leroy
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Movie • 1962
Didier Marin
Quartier V.I.P.
Movie • 2005
Ferdinand
The Oldest Profession
Movie • 1967
Philibert (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Manon 70
Movie • 1968
Jean-Paul
Follow My Gaze
Movie • 1986
Freddy Langlois
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Movie • 2003
Self
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Movie • 2000
Self
Holy Year
Movie • 1976
Pierre Bizet
A Girl in a Pocket
Movie • 1957
Jean-Loup
A French Woman
Movie • 1995
Arnoult
Le Débutant
Movie • 1986
Willy
Jean Gabin intime
Movie • 2010
Self
Un amour de pluie
Movie • 1974
Seducer
The Sword and the Balance
Movie • 1963
Jean-Philippe
Cover Up
Movie • 1983
Le contrôleur Jean-François Rambert
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Movie • 1965
Marcel
Tonio Kröger
Movie • 1964
Tonio Kröger als Erwachsener
A Murder Is a Murder
Movie • 1972
Paul Kastner
Sentimental Education
Movie • 1962
Frédéric Moreau
Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Robert et Robert
Movie • 1978
Jacques Millet
Anyone Can Kill Me
Movie • 1957
Un inspecteur de police
A Season in Hell
Movie • 1971
Paul Verlaine
Cap Canaille
Movie • 1983
Me Samuel Kebadjan
The Kreutzer Sonata
Movie • 1956
Trukhacevskij
Mafia Things
Movie • 1971
Domenico 'Mimì' Gargiulo
Vous êtes de la police ?
Movie • 2007
Alfred Lamproie
Fool’s Mate
Movie • 1956
Claude
The Tricyclist
Movie • 1957
Jean-Claude
Comédie d'été
Movie • 1989
Gaston
The 400 Blows
Movie • 1959
Man in Street
Love at Sea
Movie • 1965
The Disenchanted Man
Monsieur Max
Movie • 2007
Max Jacob
Dear Caroline
Movie • 1968
Le comte de Boimussy
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Movie • 1994
Self - Co-Host
Die schöne Wilhelmine
Movie • 1984
Casanova
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Elevator to the Gallows
Movie • 1958
Le Jeune Homme du Motel (uncredited)
Young Girls Beware
Movie • 1957
Sexy-bar customer (uncredited)
No Fear, No Die
Movie • 1990
Pierre Ardennes
A Friend of the Family
Movie • 1957
Philippe Lemonnier
The Gigolo
Movie • 1960
Jacky
Shadow Play
Movie • 1996
Rene Sandre
Sarah
Movie • 1983
Gabriel Larcange
L'Herbe rouge
Movie • 1985
Abbot Gril
Focal Point
Movie • 1977
Michel Gaur
Scrambled Eggs
Movie • 1976
Brumaire
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Quoi? L'éternité.
Movie • 2005
Self
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Movie • 1970
Count Anne d'Orgel
The Real Bargain
Movie • 1965
The gigolo
Shock Troops
Movie • 1967
Jean
Julie pot-de-colle
Movie • 1977
Jean-Luc Farlot
Three Faces of Sin
Movie • 1961
Laurent Lénaud
Un animal doué de déraison
Movie • 1976
Claude
La banda Casaroli
Movie • 1962
Corrado Minguzzi
Lamiel
Movie • 1967
Le comte d'Aubigné
I Knew Her Well
Movie • 1965
Dario Marchionni
People : Jet Set 2
Movie • 2004
Minimo
Eyes of Love
Movie • 1959
Pierre Ségur
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Movie • 1964
Philippe Lambert
Malady of Love
Movie • 1987
Frédéric
Queen Margot
Movie • 1994
Coligny
The Monster
Movie • 1994
Roccarotta
Arletty, Lady Paname
Movie • 2007
Self
My New Partner II
Movie • 1990
Le banquier
Male Companion
Movie • 1964
The Prince
King of Hearts
Movie • 1966
Duke of Clover
Côté cour, côté champs
Movie • 1971
Levy & Goliath
Movie • 1987
Bijou / Delaroche
Like a Pot of Strawberries
Movie • 1974
Norbert
Edith and Marcel
Movie • 1983
Loulou Barrier
Et ta sœur…
Movie • 1958
Brice
Famous Love Affairs
Movie • 1961
Eric Torring
Unfair Competition
Movie • 2001
Mattia Della Rocca
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1980
Arsène Lupin
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Movie • 1990
Il giudice
La Jalousie
Movie • 1992
Albert Blondel
The Song of Roland
Movie • 1978
Le Seigneur
The Overworked
Movie • 1958
Jimmy
Maschenka
Movie • 1987
Kolin
South Kensington
Movie • 2001
Ferdinando
Le Bel Âge
Movie • 1960
Jean-Claude
How to Make a French Dish
Movie • 1964
Jacquot
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Movie • 2005
Self
The Army Game
Movie • 1960
Capitaine
Cléo from 5 to 7
Movie • 1962
The Nurse (uncredited)
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Movie • 1983
Self
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Fourth Power
Movie • 1985
PDG de la chaîne
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Movie • 2001
Double Murder
Movie • 1977
Van Nijlen
Way of Youth
Movie • 1959
Paul Tiercelin
Paris Belongs to Us
Movie • 1961
Jean-Marc
School for Coquettes
Movie • 1958
Robert
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Movie • 2001
Vandoeuvres
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Movie • 1990
Charles Laumière
People in Luck
Movie • 1963
L'automobiliste (segment "Le Gros Lot")
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice)
Père Noël et fils
Movie • 1983
Thomas
Les Filles à papa
Movie • 2001
Robert, dit « Bob »
Greed
Movie • 1962
Arthur
Stella
Movie • 1983
Roland
Man of My Life
Movie • 1999
Lucien Vilner
The Mischief Makers
Movie • 1957
The man in the film
Adieu Philippine
Movie • 1962
Self - sur le plateau de 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Tous les garçons...
Movie • 1992
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
La Grande Béké
TV • 1998
Dupont Menard
Fort Boyard
TV • 1990
Self
The Blue Bicycle
TV • 2000
Raphaël Mahl
À bout portant
TV • 1968
Self
The Accursed Kings
TV • 2005
Hugues de Bouville
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1998
Morrel's Father
Archives secrètes
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Mozart
TV • 1982
Le comte d'Affiglio
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Arsène Lupin Joue et Perd "813"
TV • 1980
Arsène Lupin / ...
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Coucou c'est nous !
TV • 1992
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self (archive footage)
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Fan School
TV • 1977
Self - Host
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV • 1990
Self - Guest
Colpo di coda
TV • 1993
Piantoni
Le Président Ferrare
TV • 2004
Guillaume Ferrare
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Matin Bonheur
TV • 1987
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Reflets de Cannes
TV • 1954
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Die schöne Wilhelmine
TV • 1984
Casanova
Ferbac
TV • 1991
Éric Ferbac
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - Host