Bernard Blier

Acting · Born 1916-01-11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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…

Filmography

• The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Colonel Bernard Milan
• Crooks in Clover as Raoul Volfoni
• Joe: The Busybody as Inspecteur Ducros
• Buffet Froid as Inspecteur Morvandieu
• The Great War as Capitano Castelli
• Daybreak as Gaston
• My Friends as Righi Niccolò
• My Uncle Benjamin as Marquis de Cambyse
• Les Misérables as Javert father / Javert son
• Killer as François Tellier, director of the PJ

TV

• Cuore as Ing. Bottini
• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Cinépanorama as Self