Jean-Louis Barrault: Jean-Louis Barrault. Actor: Children of Paradise. Celebrated French stage actor/director/producer Jean-Louis Barrault was born on September 8, 1910. A superlative tragedian and mime, his dedication to both avant-garde and classical plays helped revive the French theatre after World War II, while presenting world premières of works by such playwrights as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco and Jean Genet. A rebel with many causes, he once hid French Underground members on the...
Known For: Children of Paradise (Baptiste Debureau), The Longest Day (Father Louis Roulland), That Night in Varennes (Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne), The Miracle of the Wolves (Louis XI.)