Jean Poiret

WriterActorDirector Aug 17 (died age 65) Paris, France 1953–2024 (71 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

The Birdcage

Original Film Writer

Film

The Last Metro

Jean-Loup Cottins

Film

La Cage aux Folles

Screenplay

Film

Happy Easter

Original Story

Film

Atlantic Wall

Armand, resistance leader and double agent

Film

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Raoul

Film

La Cage aux Folles II

Characters

Film

Cop au Vin

Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

Filmography

Acting (85)

Movies (73)

Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles

2023

as Self / Georges (archive footage)

9.5

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

2009

as Self (archive footage)

Sup de fric

as Cyril Dujardin

Sisi/Last Minute

as Herzog Max in Bayern

Rumeurs

as Alain Margolf

La méthode Barnol

as Monsieur Hubert

The Elegant Criminal

as Allard

La Petite Amie

as Martin Morel

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

as Bernard Germain

4.6

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale

as Octave Leroi

Miracle Healing

as Papu

Inspector Lavardin

as Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

I Hate Actors

as Orlando Higgins

Cop au Vin

as Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

6.1

Liberté, égalité, choucroute

as Le calife

The Seventh Target

as Jean Michelis

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

as Andre Joeuf

The Last Metro

as Jean-Loup Cottins

Emmenez-moi au théâtre: Le canard à l'orange

1979

as Hugh Preston

5.8

L'Hôtel du libre échange

1979

as Pinglet

4.5

The Other One's Mug

1979

as Jean-Louis Constant

5.6

La Cage aux folles

1973

as Georges

10.0

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

1971

as Gontran

7.0

Ces messieurs de la gâchette

1970

as Bernard Le Gall

3.3

Atlantic Wall

1970

as Armand, resistance leader and double agent

6.2

Aux frais de la princesse

as Santos

Three Men on a Horse

as Freddy

The Big Wash

as Jean-Michel Lavalette

5.9

La Coquine

1968

as Albino, l'instituteur

8.0

The Men in the Family

as Bernard Le Gall

The Great Gadget

as Verdier

Pour avoir Adrienne

as Le jeune homme

La Parisienne

as Lafont

Your Money or Your Life

1966

as Lucien Pélépan

5.9

Under Your Hat

1965

as Philippe / Monsieur Paul

Les baratineurs

as André

Le petit monstre

as The Godfather

The Real Bargain

1965

as Grégoire

1.0

Jaloux comme un tigre

as Doctor Raymond

The Big Scare

Hard Boiled Ones

as Louis

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

as Raoul

Teuf-teuf

The Virgins

as Banker Marchaix

The Blockhead Fair

as Collin

It's Not My Business

as Jean Duroc, le directeur de la petite troupe de théâtre

4.0

Tales of Paris

1962

as Jean-Pierre Leroy (segment "Antonia")

5.0

The Four Truths

1962

as Renard (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")

3.9

The Dance

1962

as Vieux

1.0

How to Succeed in Love

as Bernard Monod

My Wife Is a Panther

as Psychiatrist

On purge bébé

as Bastien Follavoine

8.0

Auguste

1961

as Georges Flower

1.0

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

as L'avocat de Michel (segment "Le Divorce"))

4.5

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

1960

as Le premier policier / Policeman

6.2

You Have Nothing to Declare?

1959

as Robert de Trivelin

The Bureaucrats

as René Lahrier

Oh! What a Mambo

as L'inspecteur Sapin

Nina

as Gérard Blanville

La Malle volante

as M. Grapillon

L'anglais tel qu'on le parle

1959

as Julien Cicandel

Clara and the Villains

1958

as Chantuer

5.0

The Innocent with Forty Children

as Maître Bardine

Adorables démons

as Julien Willis Jr

L'Habit vert

as Parmeline

Life is beautiful

1956

as le joueur de maracas

4.5

The Terror with Women

1956

as Gendarme

Mon bébé

as William Harrisson

That Naughty Girl

as Inspector Rémy

Murderers and Thieves

1956

as Philippe d'Artois, le riche oisif

5.8

What the East Wind Saw

as Charlles-Auguste

The Three Musketeers

Le Gang des pianos à bretelles

1953

as The presenter of 'La nuit brune' (uncredited)

1.0

Television (12)

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Stars 90

1990

as Self

6.2

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

1988

as Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

Sacrée Soirée

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Numéro un

as Self

Système 2

as Self

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

At Theatre Tonight

as Le jeune homme

Discorama

as Self

Crew (24)

Movies (24)

Poiret Serrault extraits extra

2024

Writer

Joyeuses Pâques

2023

Author

8.0

C'est encore mieux l'après-midi

Adaptation

Joyeuses Pâques

Theatre Play

La Cage aux folles

Author

Tailleur pour dames

Adaptation

Joyeuses Pâques

Writer

The Birdcage

Original Film Writer

The Birdcage

Theatre Play

Tailleur pour Dames

Adaptation

Le Zèbre

Adaptation

Le Zèbre

Director

Le Zèbre

Scenario Writer

Rumeurs

Adaptation

La Cage aux Folles 3

Characters

Tailleur pour dames

Adaptation

Happy Easter

Original Story

Happy Easter

Writer

Frohe Ostern

Writer

La Cage aux Folles II

Characters

Féfé de Broadway

Writer

The Other One's Mug

Screenplay

La Cage aux Folles

Screenplay

La Cage aux folles

Writer