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Barrault

American  
[ba-roh] / baˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis 1910–1994, French actor and director.


Barrault British  
/ baro /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime

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The stillness, shot through with dancers’ gestures of intimate dismay, recalls the thoughtful, mesmerizing Jean-Louis Barrault, as the mime in Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016

In Paris, and later back in New York, she studied theater, movement and visual art with eminences including the stage director Erwin Piscator, the actor and mime Jean-Louis Barrault and the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann.

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

Three foreign performers received acting nominations: Liv Ullmann for "Face to Face," Marie-Christine Barrault for "Cousin, Cousine" and Giancarlo Giannini for "Seven Beauties."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2015

The filmmakers also interviewed one of Gould’s last girlfriends, the soprano Roxolana Roslak, and Frances Batchen Barrault, who was his teenage sweetheart.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2010

The Maison Barrault in the Logis Barrault, built by a former mayor of the city, one time Chancellor of Brittany, was the scene of the magnificent entertainment offered C�sar Borgia in 1497.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche