Birthday:
Aug 17, 1926
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Poiret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Metro | Jean-Loup Cottins | 1980 |
| Three Men on a Horse | 1969 | |
| The Other One's Mug | Jean-Louis Constant | 1979 |
| The Dance | Vieux | 1962 |
| Cop au Vin | Inspecteur Jean Lavardin | 1985 |
| Clara and the Villains | Chantuer | 1958 |
| Sisi/Last Minute | Herzog Max in Bayern | 1991 |
| Atlantic Wall | Armand, agent double avec les Allemands, chef de la résistance | 1970 |
| Thank Heaven for Small Favors | Raoul | 1963 |
| Oh! What a Mambo | L'inspecteur Sapin | 1959 |
| Inspector Lavardin | Inspecteur Jean Lavardin | 1986 |
| I Hate Actors | Orlando Higgins | 1986 |
| Miracle Healing | Papu | 1987 |
| The Virgins | Le banquier Marchaix | 1963 |
| The Seasons of Pleasure | Bernard Germain | 1988 |
| That Naughty Girl | Inspector #1 | 1956 |
| La Malle volante | M. Grapillon | 1959 |
| The Seventh Target | Jean Michelis | 1984 |
| The Men in the Family | Bernard Le Gall | 1967 |
| Murderers and Thieves | Philippe d'Artois, le riche oisif | 1956 |
| Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles | Self / Georges (archive footage) | 2023 |
| Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! | Andre Joeuf | 1982 |
| The Big Scare | 1964 | |
| Le Gang des pianos à bretelles | The presenter of 'La nuit brune' (uncredited) | 1953 |
| Your Money or Your Life | Lucien Pélépan | 1966 |
| Love and the Frenchwoman | L'avocat de Michel (segment "Le Divorce")) | 1960 |
| What the East Wind Saw | Charlles-Auguste | 1954 |
| It's Not My Business | Jean Duroc, le directeur de la petite troupe de théâtre | 1962 |
| Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Le premier policier / Policeman | 1960 |
| La Coquine | Albino, l'instituteur | 1968 |
| The Four Truths | Renard (segment "Le corbeau et le renard") | 1962 |
| Liberté, égalité, choucroute | Le calife | 1985 |
| L'Hôtel du libre échange | Pinglet | 1979 |
| You Have Nothing to Declare? | Robert de Trivelin | 1959 |
| Emmenez-moi au théâtre: Le canard à l'orange | Hugh Preston | 1979 |
| Life is beautiful | le joueur de maracas | 1956 |
| Sup de fric | Cyril Dujardin | 1992 |
| Pour avoir Adrienne | Le jeune homme | 1967 |
| Mon bébé | William Harrisson | 1956 |
| How to Succeed in Love | Bernard Monod | 1962 |
| L'Habit vert | 1957 | |
| The Big Wash | Jean-Michel Lavalette | 1968 |
| Auguste | Georges Flower | 1961 |
| Hard Boiled Ones | Louis | 1964 |
| Under Your Hat | Philippe / Monsieur Paul | 1965 |
| The Real Bargain | 1965 | |
| Le petit monstre | 1965 | |
| Aux frais de la princesse | 1969 | |
| The Bureaucrats | René Lahrier | 1959 |
| Ces messieurs de la gâchette | Bernard Le Gall | 1970 |
| L'anglais tel qu'on le parle | Julien Cicandel | 1959 |
| The Three Musketeers | 1953 | |
| The Great Gadget | Verdier | 1967 |
| Rumeurs | Alain Margolf | 1991 |
| La Petite Amie | Martin Morel | 1988 |
| Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale | Octave Leroi | 1988 |
| Nina | Gérard Blanville | 1959 |
| Adorables démons | Julien Willis Jr | 1957 |
| Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? | Gontran | 1971 |
| The Blockhead Fair | Collin | 1963 |
| Jaloux comme un tigre | le docteur Raymond | 1964 |
| On purge bébé | Bastien Follavoine | 1961 |
| La Parisienne | Lafont | 1967 |
| Les baratineurs | André | 1965 |
| The Innocent with Forty Children | Maître Bardine | 1957 |
| The Terror with Women | Gendarme | 1956 |
| The Elegant Criminal | Allard | 1990 |
| My Wife Is a Panther | Psychiatrist | 1961 |
| Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) | Self (archive footage) | 2009 |
| Teuf-teuf | 1963 | |
| Tales of Paris | Jean-Pierre Leroy (segment "Antonia") | 1962 |
| La Cage aux folles | Georges | 1973 |
| Series | Cast | Year |
| At Theatre Tonight | Albino, l'instituteur | 1966 |
| At Theatre Tonight | Le jeune homme | 1966 |
| Spécial cinéma | Self | 1974 |
| Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) | 1974 |
| Midi trente | Self | 1972 |
| Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | 1975 |
| Numéro un | Self | 1975 |
| Système 2 | Self | 1975 |
| Champs-Elysées | Self | 1982 |
| Il était une fois Champs-Élysées | Self (archive footage) | 2022 |
| The secret files of Inspector Lavardin | Inspecteur Jean Lavardin | 1988 |
| Discorama | Self | 1959 |
| Stars 90 | Self | 1990 |
