Jean-Claude Brialy

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Jean-Claude Brialy (1992)

Jean-Claude Brialy (born March 30, 1933 in Aumale , Algeria , † May 30, 2007 in Monthyon , Département Seine-et-Marne ) was a French actor and director .

life and work

Jean-Claude Brialy was born in Algeria as the son of a colonel in the French army. The family moved to France a few years later. He attended various high schools, was a pupil of a cadet school and graduated from high school in Strasbourg. Contrary to the wishes of his father, who would have liked to see him as an officer, he secretly took acting lessons in Strasbourg. During his military service in Germany he got close to television in Baden-Baden and Stuttgart and appeared on stage for the first time as part of the French troop support. He later toured France for a year with the Center Dramatique de l'Est , a French traveling theater, and plays by Sartre, Cocteau, Shakespeare, etc. After his debut as an actor in Jacques Rivette's short film Le coup du berger , Jean-Claude Brialy became one of the leading actors in the Nouvelle Vague . Pierre Kast cast him in 1957 alongside Jean Marais ' in Un amour de poche . Claude Chabrol made Jean-Claude Brialy the protagonist of his films Scream When You Can and The Disappointed . Mauro Bolognini cast him in Wir von der Straße . Denys de La Patellière made him - contrary to the views of the Nouvelle Vague - the romantic hero in the drama With the eyes of love , as a blind man with an older lover ( Danielle Darrieux ).

François Truffaut gave him a starring role in The Bride Wore Black after a short film ( A Tale of Water ) and a cameo in You Kissed and they suggested him . Truffaut and Brialy were also close friends in private. He was called to be the best man for Truffaut's wedding to Claude Jade , which was planned for June 1968 , but it did not take place. Truffaut wanted to cast Brialy for the role of the homosexual Jean-Loup Cottins in The Last Metro , but ultimately decided on Jean Poiret because he saw the role "too close" to Brialy. In later years Brialy , who never hid his homosexuality, played roles of gay men, such as that of Max Jacob in the television film biography Monsieur Max (2007).

He played one of his most important roles in A Woman is a Woman by Jean-Luc Godard , followed by Rivettes Paris Belongs to Us . Numerous romantic comedies followed (stealing too and hunting men , both with Françoise Dorléac ) and politically explosive films like Costa-Gavras ' One Man Too Many followed . In connection with the auteur cinema of the 1970s, he was remembered primarily as Jérôme in Éric Rohmer's film Claire's knee - but also through his work with Chabrol and Luis Buñuel ( The Ghost of Freedom ) . In the following decades Brialy continued to belong to the first guard of French character actors.

The actor worked as a director in several films. In this role he worked with Romy Schneider in Sommerliebelei , among others, with whom he had played in Christine in 1958 .

According to his relatives, Brialy died on May 30, 2007 after a long illness on his estate in Monthyon near Paris , where he had long owned an 18th century castle. Like François Truffaut, he was buried on the Cimetière de Montmartre (Division 15) in Paris. Because of attempted theft of flowers and wreaths from his grave, this was cordoned off for a few days after the burial.

Filmography (selection)

Brialy at the 45th Cannes Film Festival (1992)

Actor (selection)

Director

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Jean-Claude Brialy - Munzinger Biographie. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel , Register, Issue 23/2007, p. 198.
  3. ^ Le Parisien , June 1, 2007
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Jean-Claude Brialy
  5. ^ All films by Jean-Claude Brialy at Filmente. In: jean-claude-brialy.film-ente.de. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brialy, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Aumale , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2007
Place of death Monthyon , Seine-et-Marne department