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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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He continued his education in Paris, where he studied with the actor Jean-Louis Barrault and the mime Etienne Decroux.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

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

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 wonderful French actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault took me under his wing when I was very young.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2012

"What think you, gentlemen, was it that lost the Duke of Montmorency his head?" said Cardinal Zapata to Bautru and Barrault, envoys of France, whom he met in the antechamber of the King of Spain.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert