Bernard Blier
Born: 1916-01-11 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 1989-03-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Bernard Blier, façon puzzle as Self (archive footage)
2017
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2002
- Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Paganini as Pater Caffarelli
1989
- Migrations as Opat Žoržel
1988
- Nailcruncher as Saltiel
- The Possessed as Governor
- Ada in the Jungle as Major Collins
- Taste of Life as Giuseppe Mondardini
1987
- I picari as The exploiter of prostitutes
- Under the Chinese Restaurant as Il professore
1986
- Twist Again in Moscow as Alexei
- Let's Hope It's a Girl as Uncle Gugo
- I Hate Actors as Jerome B. Cobb
1985
- The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal as Anselmo Paleari
- My Friends Act III as Sig. Lenzi
- Madman at War as Belucci
- Ça n'arrive qu'à moi as Monsieur Guilledou
1984
- Cuore as Ing. Bottini
1981
- Il turno as Don Marcantonio
- Passion of Love as Major
- Pétrole ! Pétrole ! as Emir Abdullah
1980
- Voltati Eugenio as Grandfather Eugenio
1979
- Serie Noire as Staplin
- Buffet Froid as Inspecteur Morvandieu
- Hypochondriac as Dr. Purgone
- On purge bébé as M. Follavoine
1978
- Feu la mère de Madame as Lucien
1976
- Femmes Fatales as Father Émile
- The Body of My Enemy as Jean-Baptiste Liégeard
- Golden Night as Commissaire Pidoux
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- My Friends as Righi Niccolò
- Cher Victor as Anselme Maillard
- The Phoney as Maxime
- The Restroom Robbery as Phano
- It's Tough for Everybody as Paul Tardel
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Chinese In Paris as Le Président de la République
- Bloody Murder as Le commissaire Moureu
- Ante Up as Priest
- Kisses Till Monday as Frankie Strong
- Quick Trial as Il giudice
- By the Blood of Others as Mayor
1973
- I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything as Gastié-le-Roy père
- Moi y'en a vouloir des sous as Adrien Colbard
- L'École des femmes as Arnolphe
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful as Le président Louis-Marcel Thulle
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Colonel Bernard Milan
- She No Longer Talks, She Shoots as Commissioner Camille Bistingo
- Nights of Boccaccio as Dr. Mazzeo
- Killer as François Tellier, director of the PJ
1971
- Homo Eroticus as Dr. Mezzini
- Troubleshooters as Commissaire Caillaud
- Catch Me a Spy as Webb
- Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques as Monsieur K.
- Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... as Persicelli
- Joe: The Busybody as Inspecteur Ducros
1970
- Distracted as Guiton
- She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks as Liethard
- Le Mari, la femme et la mort as Sébastien
1969
- The Fourth Wall as Andrea Brusa
- My Uncle Benjamin as Marquis de Cambyse
- Call Me Mathilde as Charles de Blanzac, Mathilde's husband
1968
- Dear Caroline as Georges Berthier
- Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese as Charles aka 'Le Téméraire '
- Coplan Saves His Skin as Marscar
- Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? as Ubaldo Palmarini
1967
- The Stranger as Defense Counsel
- Idiot in Paris as Léon Dessertine, mandataire en viandes et ancien de l'assistance
- To Commit a Murder as Le commandant Rhome
- The Madman of Lab Four as Mr. Beauchard, executive secretary linked to a gang
- Du mou dans la gâchette as Nicolas Pappas
- If I Were a Spy as le Docteur Lefèvre
1966
- The Restaurant as Le commissaire divisionnaire
- Ring Around the World as Lord Richard Berry
- Almost Perfect Crime as William Derek Robson
- A Matter of Honor as Don Leandro Sanna
1965
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning as Charles Labergerie, le tenancier de la maison close (sketch “La Fermeture” & “Le Procès”)
- Casanova '70 as Il commissario (non accreditato
- When the Pheasants Pass as Hyacinthe Camus
1964
- Why Paris? as Building concierge
- High Infidelity as Sergio
- The Magnificent Cuckold as Mariotti
- Male Hunt as M. Heurtin
- The Great Spy Chase as Eusebio Cafarelli
- Greed in the Sun as Mitch-Mitch
- Chance at Love as Camille (segment "Une chance explosive")
- How to Make a French Dish as Joseph
1963
- Germinal as Hennebeau
- The Organizer as Martinetti
- Mathias Sandorf as Toronthal
- Crooks in Clover as Raoul Volfoni
- The Magnificent Adventurer as Clemente VII
- Young Girls of Good Families as Ribois
1962
- Hitch-Hike as Mr Rameau, le provincial en 2 cv
- The Seventh Juror as Grégoire Duval, pharmacist
- Operation Gold Ingot
1961
- The President as Philippe Chalamont
- The Counterfeiters of Paris as Charles Lepicard
- The Black Monocle as Commissaire Tournemire
- Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Sully
- The Fenouillard Family as A traveler (uncredited)
- Seduction Of The South as Colonelo Breviglieri
- Women and War as le docteur Leproux, maire du village
1960
- The Hunchback as Feldwebel
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Commissario Polizia
- Do or Die! as Lenzi
- L'Ennemi dans l'ombre as le Patron
1959
- The Great War as Capitano Castelli
- The Great Deception as le baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
- Eyes of Love as Dr. Andrieux
- The Magnificent Tramp as M. Pichon, nouveau patron du café
- Marie-Octobre as Julien Simoneau
1958
- Les Misérables as Javert father / Javert son
- The Cat as Debrun
- School for Coquettes as Labaume
- The Possessors as Simon Lachaume, bras droit de Noël
- The Gambler as General Zagoriensky
- Sans famille as Renato Garofoli
- A Legitimate Defense as Gustave Martinet
- Secrets of a French Nurse as René Lecomte
1957
- When a Woman Meddles as Félix Seguin
- There's Always a Price Tag as Commissioner Plantavin
- The Man in the Raincoat as Mr Raphaël, le maître chanteur
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Crime and Punishment as Antoine Monestier
1955
- The Hussars as le brigadier Le Gouce
- Black Dossier as Le commissaire Noblet
- Revelation as Don Lorenzo
1954
- Before the Deluge as Marcel Noblet
- The Secrets of the Bed as Emile Bergeret (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
- Marriage Episodes as la mari d'Aglaé
1953
- Follow That Man as Commissioner François Basquier
- Des Hommes Et Des Montagnes as Narrator
1952
- I Was It Three Times as Henri Verdier / Hector van Broken
- Matrimonial Agency as Noël Pailleret
1951
- Without Leaving an Address as Émile Gauthier, chauffeur de taxi et trésorier du syndicat
- The Bonnadieu House as Félix Bonnadieu
1950
- Lost Souvenirs as Police officer Raoul (segment "Le violon")
- Sorceror as Jean-Pierre Lesourd
- The Elders of Saint-Loup as Jean Laclaux, ruined banker
- Tuesday's Guest as Charles Josse, agent d'assurance
- 1848 as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1949
- Return to Life as Gaston (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
- Monsignor as Louis Mennechain
- Truant School as Buffle Pascal, teacher
- The Cheat as Robert
1948
- Man to Men as Edmond Coquillot
- The Spice of Life as L'importuné
- Dedee as "Monsieur", le patron du bar à entraîneuses
1947
- Jenny Lamour as Maurice Martineau
- Clockface Cafe as Julien Couturier
1946
- Messieurs Ludovic as Ludovic Seguin
- Mr. Gregoire Runs Away as Alex Grégoire
1945
- Farandole as Sylvestre
- Alone in the Night as Inspector Pascal
1944
- Carmen as Remendado
- The Little Ones of the Flower Platform as Doctor Bernard
1943
- Marie-Martine as Maurice
- Domino as Crémone
- I Am with You as Robert Nattier
1942
- Whims as Marcel
- The Marriage of Chiffon as Hotel boy
- La Symphonie fantastique as Antoine Charbonnel
- The Woman I Loved the Most as Funeral home employee
- Threesome Romance as Marcel
- Fantastic Night as Lucien
- The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock as André Bertod
1941
- Premier bal as The maitre d'hotel
- Who Killed Santa Claus? as Officer from the Gendarmerie
- Hell of Angels as Freddy, le patron du bistrot
- The Pavilion Burns as Benezy
- Night in December as Édouard
1939
- Latin Quarter as (uncredited)
- Daybreak as Gaston
- Place de la Concorde as Brioche
1938
- Final Accord as Mérot
- The Curtain Rises as Pescani, un élève du Conservatoire
- Youth in Revolt as Benoît
- The Stream as Taxi driver (uncredited)
- Hôtel du Nord as Prosper
- Grisou as le fils Mélée
1937
- The Messenger as Nick's chauffeur (uncredited)
- Woman of Malacca as (uncredited)
- Double Crime in the Maginot Line
- Trois... six... neuf
- Gribouille as Le jeune homme au tandem (uncredited)
- The Green Dress as Le fils Pinchet