Bernard Blier

Biography

Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas. He often worked in Italian films, particularly in the last decade of his life. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, was posted at the time. He is the father of director Bertrand Blier, and appeared in a number of his son's films, most notably Buffet froid (1979). He was awarded an Honorary César (the French Oscar) in 1989, a month before he died. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Blier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

1. My Friends (1975) — Righi Niccolò
2. Crooks in Clover (1963) — Raoul Volfoni
3. The Restaurant (1966) — Le commissaire divisionnaire
4. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) — Colonel Bernard Milan
5. The Great War (1959) — Capitano Castelli
6. Buffet Froid (1979) — Inspecteur Morvandieu
7. Jo (1971) — Inspecteur Ducros
8. Daybreak (1939) — Gaston
9. My Friends Act III (1985) — Sig. Lenzi
10. Jenny Lamour (1947) — Maurice Martineau
11. Greed in the Sun (1964) — Mitch-Mitch
12. The Great Spy Chase (1964) — Eusebio Cafarelli
13. Hôtel du Nord (1938) — Prosper
14. Serie Noire (1979) — Staplin
15. Femmes Fatales (1976) — Father Émile
16. The Body of My Enemy (1976) — Jean-Baptiste Liégeard
17. The Organizer (1963) — Martinetti
18. Distracted (1970) — Guiton
19. Les Misérables (1958) — Javert father / Javert son
20. The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961) — Charles Lepicard
21. Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) — Ubaldo Palmarini
22. The Stranger (1967) — Defense Counsel
23. Marie-Octobre (1959) — Julien Simoneau
24. The President (1961) — Philippe Chalamont
25. Twist Again in Moscow (1986) — Alexei
26. The Restroom Robbery (1975) — Phano
27. Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986) — Uncle Gugo
28. The Seventh Juror (1962) — Grégoire Duval pharmacien
29. I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973) — Gastié-le-Roy père
30. She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970) — Liethard
31. Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful (1972) — Le président Louis-Marcel Thulle
32. Casanova '70 (1965) — Il commissario (non accreditato)
33. Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968) — Charles aka 'Le Téméraire '
34. The Magnificent Cuckold (1964) — Mariotti
35. The Possessors (1958) — Simon Lachaume, bras droit de Noël
36. My Uncle Benjamin (1969) — Marquis de Cambyse
37. The Magnificent Tramp (1959) — M. Pichon, nouveau patron du café
38. How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965) — Charles Labergerie, le tenancier de la maison close (sketch “La Fermeture” & “Le Procès”)
39. Troubleshooters (1971) — Commissaire Caillaud
40. Madman at War (1985) — Belucci