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Article: Obituary: Jean-Louis Barrault
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 24, 1994
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Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director, theatre manager and
theoretician: born Le Vesinet, France 8 September 1910; married
1940 Madeleine Renaud; died Paris 22 January 1994.
JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT was the outstanding man of the theatre in
France of his time. His nearest British counterpart was Laurence
Olivier, three years his senior, but, although like Olivier in
Britain he was the pre-eminent actor of his generation and a
brilliant director and competent administrator, Barrault was more
than just that: he had the ability to understand what the great
thinkers and theoreticians of his youth were saying and to put
their words into action.
He improvised his own dramatic versions of great French ...