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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-03-30
Place of birth
Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
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Cast
The Cousins
1959
6.80
The Lovers
1958
6.58
Vivement Truffaut
1985
6.00
Claire's Knee
1970
7.27
Catherine & Co.
1975
1.00
The Bride Wore Black
1968
7.14
Swimming Instructor
1979
5.60
The Lady Banker
1980
5.30
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
1962
6.00
Male Hunt
1964
6.41
Christine
1958
6.20
The Burning Court
1962
4.60
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
7.44
Le Beau Serge
1959
6.93
Les Siffleurs
1964
0.00
A Woman Is a Woman
1961
7.32
Demon Is on the Island
1983
4.92
As Luck Would Have It
2002
5.62
That Night of Varennes
1982
6.80
Pinot simple-flic
1984
5.50
Bolero
1981
6.90
Carom Shots
1963
6.04
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
6.80
An Impudent Girl
1985
6.50
Deadly Circuit
1983
6.11
To the Extreme
2000
4.40
Inspector Lavardin
1986
6.20
Août
1992
5.50
Circle of Love
1964
5.50
Anna
1998
5.50
Grand Guignol
1987
3.35
A Story of Water
1961
6.46
The Girl from Trieste
1982
4.60
Barocco
1976
5.83
Son of Gascogne
1995
4.30
Les filles, personne s'en méfie
2003
1.00
Marriage of the Century
1985
5.30
The Innocents
1987
5.00
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
6.55
The Accuser
1977
5.70
Actors
2000
5.75
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
6.87
Kennedy et moi
1999
6.37
The Big Night
1959
5.94
Wise Guys
1961
5.40
Illegal Cargo
1958
3.00
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962
6.53
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
5.69
The Mandrake
1965
5.72
Cinq-Mars
1981
1.00
Operation San Pietro
1967
5.94
A Very Private Affair
1962
5.00
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
6.23
The Car Keys
2003
5.13
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
1963
5.20
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
1965
4.00
The Lions Are Loose
1961
5.80
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
6.00
Special Delivery
2002
4.70
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
1959
6.67
Hitch-Hike
1962
5.50
Our Husbands
1966
5.80
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
5.40
Le Moustachu
1987
4.40
Quartier V.I.P.
2005
4.30
The Oldest Profession
1967
4.90
Manon 70
1968
5.30
Follow My Gaze
1986
6.00
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
2003
5.50
Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
2000
1.00
Holy Year
1976
6.60
A Girl in a Pocket
1957
4.50
A French Woman
1995
5.30
Le Débutant
1986
3.67
Jean Gabin intime
2010
10.00
Un amour de pluie
1974
4.70
The Sword and the Balance
1963
7.60
Cover Up
1983
5.50
Tonio Kröger
1964
5.00
A Murder Is a Murder
1972
5.20
Sentimental Education
1962
5.20
Robert et Robert
1978
6.06
Anyone Can Kill Me
1957
5.90
A Season in Hell
1971
5.10
Cap Canaille
1983
3.60
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
6.10
Mafia Things
1971
5.50
Vous êtes de la police ?
2007
0.00
Fool’s Mate
1956
6.43
The Tricyclist
1957
5.52
Comédie d'été
1989
3.30
The 400 Blows
1959
8.02
Love at Sea
1965
7.10
Monsieur Max
2007
5.60
Dear Caroline
1968
4.20
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994
0.00
Die schöne Wilhelmine
1984
0.00
Elevator to the Gallows
1958
7.60
Young Girls Beware
1957
4.75
No Fear, No Die
1990
6.00
A Friend of the Family
1957
0.50
The Gigolo
1960
1.00
Shadow Play
1996
7.40
Sarah
1983
5.30
L'Herbe rouge
1985
0.00
Focal Point
1977
5.00
Scrambled Eggs
1976
4.00
Quoi? L'éternité.
2005
0.00
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
1970
5.00
The Real Bargain
1965
1.00
Shock Troops
1967
6.60
Julie pot-de-colle
1977
4.20
Three Faces of Sin
1961
6.30
Un animal doué de déraison
1976
5.00
La banda Casaroli
1962
7.50
Lamiel
1967
4.80
I Knew Her Well
1965
7.46
People : Jet Set 2
2004
3.40
Eyes of Love
1959
4.88
Malady of Love
1987
4.70
Queen Margot
1994
7.19
The Monster
1994
6.90
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007
6.00
My New Partner II
1990
6.00
Male Companion
1964
4.90
King of Hearts
1966
6.90
Côté cour, côté champs
1971
0.00
Levy & Goliath
1987
4.90
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974
5.50
Edith and Marcel
1983
5.70
Et ta sœur…
1958
5.30
Famous Love Affairs
1961
3.67
Unfair Competition
2001
7.00
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
1980
0.00
La Jalousie
1992
0.00
The Song of Roland
1978
4.86
The Overworked
1958
5.83
Maschenka
1987
0.00
South Kensington
2001
5.10
Le Bel Âge
1960
5.30
How to Make a French Dish
1964
4.50
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005
10.00
The Army Game
1960
5.10
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962
7.65
Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983
6.00
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
6.00
The Fourth Power
1985
6.22
Double Murder
1977
2.00
Way of Youth
1959
6.00
Paris Belongs to Us
1961
6.60
School for Coquettes
1958
1.33
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
2001
4.33
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990
8.00
People in Luck
1963
5.50
Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
1975
9.00
Père Noël et fils
1983
0.00
Les Filles à papa
2001
7.00
Greed
1962
7.50
Stella
1983
6.83
Man of My Life
1999
0.00
The Mischief Makers
1957
6.78
Adieu Philippine
1962
6.90
Tous les garçons...
1992
0.00