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.
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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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Movies (Cast)
The Monster
People in Luck
Le Débutant
Inspector Lavardin
Circle of Love
The Lovers
Unfair Competition
The Lady Banker
Illegal Cargo
Cléo from 5 to 7
Christine
South Kensington
The Mandrake
The 400 Blows
Adieu Philippine
An Impudent Girl
Way of Youth
A Very Private Affair
Shadow Play
School for Coquettes
Tonio Kröger
Grand Guignol
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Love at Sea
The Tricyclist
Cover Up
The Bride Wore Black
The Gigolo
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
The Phantom of Liberty
The Cousins
Marriage of the Century
Wise Guys
The Sword and the Balance
Paris Belongs to Us
Bolero
Carom Shots
The Oldest Profession
Queen Margot
The Army Game
Three Faces of Sin
The Judge and the Assassin
The Innocents
King of Hearts
People - Jet set 2
Actors
The Mischief Makers
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Claire's Knee
Lamiel
Like a Pot of Strawberries
The Seven Deadly Sins
Sarah
My New Partner II
Male Hunt
To the Extreme
Anna
Monsieur Max
Scrambled Eggs
Shock Troops
Malady of Love
Le Bel Âge
Tight Skirts, Loose Pleasures
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Les Filles à papa
Barocco
The Night of Varennes
Deadly Circuit
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
The Car Keys
Edith and Marcel
A Girl in a Pocket
Handsome Serge
Manon 70
Young Girls Beware
Kennedy et moi
Dear Caroline
Catherine & Co.
Pinot simple-flic
Fool’s Mate
Levy & Goliath
Sentimental Education
The Song of Roland
I Knew Her Well
Robert et Robert
Cap Canaille
Le Moustachu
Male Companion
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Greed
A Woman Is a Woman
Special Delivery
Son of Gascogne
Hitch-Hike
Elevator to the Gallows
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Holy Year
The Girl from Trieste
Un animal doué de déraison
The Real Bargain
The Burning Court
Focal Point
Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Eyes of Love
Demon Is on the Island
The Kreutzer Sonata
La banda Casaroli
Un amour de pluie
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Fiancés on the Bridge
Famous Love Affairs
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
A French Woman
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs