Bernard Blier
Actor
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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Filmography
Crooks in Clover
as Raoul Volfoni 1963
The Restaurant
as Le commissaire divisionnaire 1966
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Colonel Bernard Milan 1972
The Great War
as Capitano Castelli 1959
Buffet Froid
as Inspecteur Morvandieu 1979
Joe: The Busybody
as Inspecteur Ducros 1971
Daybreak
as Gaston 1939
My Friends Act III
as Sig. Lenzi 1985
Jenny Lamour
as Maurice Martineau 1947
The Great Spy Chase
as Eusebio Cafarelli 1964
Hôtel du Nord
as Prosper 1938
Greed in the Sun
as Mitch-Mitch 1964
Serie Noire
as Staplin 1979
Femmes Fatales
as Father Émile 1976
The Body of My Enemy
as Jean-Baptiste Liégeard 1976
Distracted
as Guiton 1970