Actor
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 ...

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