Christian Barbier
Actor
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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Filmography
Weekend at Dunkirk
as Paul 1964
Three Men to Kill
as Liethard 1980
Trans-Europ-Express
as Lorentz 1966
The Burned Barns
as Captain of gendarmerie 1973
The Horse
as Léon, Mathilde’s husband 1970
The Hurried Man
as Cardiologist 1977
Mother
as Father Pignon 1991
Brigade of Death
as Robert Capes 1985
Lucky Jo
as Le commissaire Odile 1964
The Man in the Buick
as Maxime 1968
Franciscan of Bourges
as Abbot Barret 1968
Falling Point
1970
Maigret at the Pigalle
as Ispettore Torrence 1966
Jambon d'Ardenne
as L'entrepreneur 1977
The Year of Awakening
as le colonel 1991
Winter
as Le producteur 1969