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.
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Full filmography
- Spécial cinéma (1974) as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier (1972) as Self
- Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
- Passion of Love (1981) as Major
- Alone in the Night (1945) as Inspector Pascal
- My Friends Act III (1985) as Sig. Lenzi
- My Friends (1975) as Righi Niccolò
- Les Misérables (1958) as Javert father / Javert son
- Jo (1971) as Inspecteur Ducros
- Paganini (1990) as Pater Caffarelli
- The Restaurant (1966) as Le commissaire divisionnaire
- Cuore (1984) as Ing. Bottini
- Black Dossier (1955) as Le commissaire Noblet
- The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) as Colonel Bernard Milan
- The Possessed (1988) as Governor
- Femmes Fatales (1976) as Father Émile
- The Great War (1959) as Capitano Castelli
- High Infidelity (1964) as Sergio
- The Stranger (1967) as Defense Counsel
- Hôtel du Nord (1938) as Prosper
- Jenny Lamour (1947) as Maurice Martineau
- Casanova '70 (1965) as Il commissario (non accreditato)
- Homo Eroticus (1971) as Dr. Mezzini