Christian Barbier
Biography
Christian Barbier (28 June 1924 – 3 November 2009) was a French film and television actor.
Barbier was born at Saint-Ouen, Seine (currently Seine-Saint-Denis), France. During his career (1964 to 1997), he specialized in drama rather than comedy. In film, he held several leading roles but is especially distinguished in auxiliary roles depicting more limited characters. He is especially remembered for his first-class performance in Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969. Appearing in a number of soaps and TV shows of the late 1960s to early 1980s, Barbier gained a certain notoriety thanks to the character of Joseph Durtol, bounded and proud hero of The Man of Picardy, the legendary French television series. He died in Manosque (Alpes de Haute-Provence), aged 85.
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Full filmography
- Army of Shadows (1969) as Guillaume Vermesch / Le Bison
- L'Homme du Picardie (1968) as Joseph Durtol
- Sans famille (1981) as Gaspard
- The Burned Barns (1973) as Captain of gendarmerie
- Three Men to Kill (1980) as Liethard
- Weekend at Dunkirk (1964) as Paul
- Mother (1991) as Father Pignon
- Les Corsaires (1966) as François Louba
- Cinéma 16 (1975) as Le docteur Lavaronnière
- The Hurried Man (1977) as Cardiologist
- Lamiel (1967) as Vidocq
- Serious as Pleasure (1975)
- Lucky Jo (1964) as Le commissaire Odile
- Target: Harry (1969) as Sulley Boulez
- La Fortune des Rougon (1980) as Pierre Rougon
- The Man in the Buick (1968) as Maxime
- The Horse (1970) as Léon, Mathilde’s Husband
- Mon ami Gaylord (1979) as grand-pa
- Franciscan of Bourges (1968) as Abbot Barret
- Le Jeune Homme vert (1979) as L'abbé Le Couec
- The Year of Awakening (1991) as le colonel
- Falling Point (1970)
- Trans-Europ-Express (1966) as Lorentz
- Maigret at the Pigalle (1966) as Ispettore Torrence