Bernard Blier
Acting • Born 1916-01-11 – Died 1989-03-29
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Blier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
192 credits
My Uncle Benjamin
Movie • 1969
Marquis de Cambyse
Les Misérables
Movie • 1958
Javert father / Javert son
Killer
Movie • 1972
François Tellier, director of the PJ
Male Hunt
Movie • 1964
M. Heurtin
The Seventh Juror
Movie • 1962
Grégoire Duval, pharmacist
My Friends Act III
Movie • 1985
Sig. Lenzi
The Great Spy Chase
Movie • 1964
Eusebio Cafarelli
The Stranger
Movie • 1967
Defense Counsel
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie • 1972
Colonel Bernard Milan
Crooks in Clover
Movie • 1963
Raoul Volfoni
The Magnificent Tramp
Movie • 1959
M. Pichon, nouveau patron du café
Golden Night
Movie • 1976
Commissaire Pidoux
Joe: The Busybody
Movie • 1971
Inspecteur Ducros
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Movie • 1972
Le président Louis-Marcel Thulle
Greed in the Sun
Movie • 1964
Mitch-Mitch
The Possessors
Movie • 1958
Simon Lachaume, bras droit de Noël
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1956
Antoine Monestier
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Movie • 1973
Gastié-le-Roy père
Femmes Fatales
Movie • 1976
Father Émile
Return to Life
Movie • 1949
Gaston (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Buffet Froid
Movie • 1979
Inspecteur Morvandieu
Serie Noire
Movie • 1979
Staplin
The Cat
Movie • 1958
Debrun
Coplan Saves His Skin
Movie • 1968
Marscar
Clockface Cafe
Movie • 1947
Julien Couturier
Truant School
Movie • 1949
Buffle Pascal, teacher
Hôtel du Nord
Movie • 1938
Prosper
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Movie • 1968
Ubaldo Palmarini
Jenny Lamour
Movie • 1947
Maurice Martineau
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Movie • 1970
Liethard
Twist Again in Moscow
Movie • 1986
Alexei
The Restaurant
Movie • 1966
Le commissaire divisionnaire
The Organizer
Movie • 1963
Martinetti
The Body of My Enemy
Movie • 1976
Jean-Baptiste Liégeard
The Great Deception
Movie • 1959
le baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
Troubleshooters
Movie • 1971
Commissaire Caillaud
Madman at War
Movie • 1985
Belucci
Gribouille
Movie • 1937
Le jeune homme au tandem (uncredited)
Woman of Malacca
Movie • 1937
(uncredited)
The Messenger
Movie • 1937
Nick's chauffeur (uncredited)
Trois... six... neuf
Movie • 1937
Taste of Life
Movie • 1988
Giuseppe Mondardini
The Woman I Loved the Most
Movie • 1942
Funeral home employee
The Curtain Rises
Movie • 1938
Pescani, un élève du Conservatoire
Final Accord
Movie • 1938
Mérot
Place de la Concorde
Movie • 1939
Brioche
The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Movie • 1942
André Bertod
Threesome Romance
Movie • 1942
Marcel
Fantastic Night
Movie • 1942
Lucien
The Marriage of Chiffon
Movie • 1942
Hotel boy
La Symphonie fantastique
Movie • 1942
Antoine Charbonnel
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Movie • 1968
Charles aka 'Le Téméraire '
Latin Quarter
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
The Pavilion Burns
Movie • 1941
Benezy
The President
Movie • 1961
Philippe Chalamont
Kisses Till Monday
Movie • 1974
Frankie Strong
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Movie • 1971
Monsieur K.
Whims
Movie • 1942
Marcel
When the Pheasants Pass
Movie • 1965
Hyacinthe Camus
I Was It Three Times
Movie • 1952
Henri Verdier / Hector van Broken
Germinal
Movie • 1963
Hennebeau
Pétrole ! Pétrole !
Movie • 1981
Emir Abdullah
When a Woman Meddles
Movie • 1957
Félix Seguin
Women and War
Movie • 1961
le docteur Leproux, maire du village
Marie-Octobre
Movie • 1959
Julien Simoneau
If I Were a Spy
Movie • 1967
le Docteur Lefèvre
L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Movie • 1960
le Patron
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Movie • 1961
Charles Lepicard
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Movie • 1972
Commissioner Camille Bistingo
The Restroom Robbery
Movie • 1975
Phano
Lost Souvenirs
Movie • 1950
Police officer Raoul (segment "Le violon")
Sorceror
Movie • 1950
Jean-Pierre Lesourd
Loose in the Trigger
Movie • 1967
Nicolas Pappas
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie • 1965
Charles Labergerie, le tenancier de la maison close (sketch “La Fermeture” & “Le Procès”)
Hitch-Hike
Movie • 1962
Mr Rameau, le provincial en 2 cv
Dedee
Movie • 1948
"Monsieur", le patron du bar à entraîneuses
I picari
Movie • 1987
The exploiter of prostitutes
Nailcruncher
Movie • 1988
Saltiel
The Hussars
Movie • 1955
le brigadier Le Gouce
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Movie • 1973
Adrien Colbard
Le Mari, la femme et la mort
Movie • 1970
Sébastien
It's Tough for Everybody
Movie • 1975
Paul Tardel
A Legitimate Defense
Movie • 1958
Gustave Martinet
Call Me Mathilde
Movie • 1969
Charles de Blanzac, Mathilde's husband
Des Hommes Et Des Montagnes
Movie • 1953
Narrator
Secrets of a French Nurse
Movie • 1958
René Lecomte
Do or Die!
Movie • 1960
Lenzi
Grisou
Movie • 1938
le fils Mélée
The Stream
Movie • 1938
Taxi driver (uncredited)
Young Girls of Good Families
Movie • 1963
Ribois
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Movie • 1960
Commissario Polizia
The Bonnadieu House
Movie • 1951
Félix Bonnadieu
The Magnificent Cuckold
Movie • 1964
Mariotti
Alone in the Night
Movie • 1945
Inspector Pascal
Marie-Martine
Movie • 1943
Maurice
The Hunchback
Movie • 1960
Feldwebel
The Madman of Lab Four
Movie • 1967
Mr. Beauchard, executive secretary linked to a gang
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Movie • 1985
Anselmo Paleari
To Commit a Murder
Movie • 1967
Le commandant Rhome
Under the Chinese Restaurant
Movie • 1987
Il professore
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Movie • 1950
Jean Laclaux, ruined banker
The Phoney
Movie • 1975
Maxime
A Matter of Honor
Movie • 1966
Don Leandro Sanna
Passion of Love
Movie • 1981
Major
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Movie • 1961
Sully
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Homo Eroticus
Movie • 1971
Dr. Mezzini
Without Leaving an Address
Movie • 1951
Émile Gauthier, chauffeur de taxi et trésorier du syndicat
There's Always a Price Tag
Movie • 1957
Commissioner Plantavin
Almost Perfect Crime
Movie • 1966
William Derek Robson
The Great War
Movie • 1959
Capitano Castelli
Quick Trial
Movie • 1974
Il giudice
Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
Movie • 1946
Alex Grégoire
Hell of Angels
Movie • 1941
Freddy, le patron du bistrot
Daybreak
Movie • 1939
Gaston
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dear Caroline
Movie • 1968
Georges Berthier
The Cheat
Movie • 1949
Robert
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Movie • 1986
Uncle Gugo
Hypochondriac
Movie • 1979
Dr. Purgone
Black Dossier
Movie • 1955
Le commissaire Noblet
My Friends
Movie • 1975
Righi Niccolò
Distracted
Movie • 1970
Guiton
Seduction Of The South
Movie • 1961
Colonelo Breviglieri
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
Movie • 1944
Doctor Bernard
Premier bal
Movie • 1941
The maitre d'hotel
Idiot in Paris
Movie • 1967
Léon Dessertine, mandataire en viandes et ancien de l'assistance
Operation Gold Ingot
Movie • 1962
The Black Monocle
Movie • 1961
Commissaire Tournemire
Why Paris?
Movie • 1964
Building concierge
Domino
Movie • 1943
Crémone
Migrations
Movie • 1989
Opat Žoržel
Ring Around the World
Movie • 1966
Lord Richard Berry
Nights of Boccaccio
Movie • 1972
Dr. Mazzeo
Matrimonial Agency
Movie • 1952
Noël Pailleret
School for Coquettes
Movie • 1958
Labaume
The Green Dress
Movie • 1937
Le fils Pinchet
Follow That Man
Movie • 1953
Commissioner François Basquier
Monsignor
Movie • 1949
Louis Mennechain
Eyes of Love
Movie • 1959
Dr. Andrieux
Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
Movie • 1985
Monsieur Guilledou
Before the Deluge
Movie • 1954
Marcel Noblet
Il turno
Movie • 1981
Don Marcantonio
The Fenouillard Family
Movie • 1961
A traveler (uncredited)
Ante Up
Movie • 1974
Priest
The Possessed
Movie • 1988
Governor
Paganini
Movie • 1990
Pater Caffarelli
By the Blood of Others
Movie • 1974
Mayor
Catch Me a Spy
Movie • 1971
Webb
Bloody Murder
Movie • 1974
Le commissaire Moureu
Man to Men
Movie • 1948
Edmond Coquillot
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Movie • 1971
Persicelli
The Spice of Life
Movie • 1948
L'importuné
Messieurs Ludovic
Movie • 1946
Ludovic Seguin
I Am with You
Movie • 1943
Robert Nattier
1848
Movie • 1950
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Marriage Episodes
Movie • 1954
la mari d'Aglaé
Casanova '70
Movie • 1965
Il commissario (non accreditato
Carmen
Movie • 1944
Remendado
The Fourth Wall
Movie • 1969
Andrea Brusa
Revelation
Movie • 1955
Don Lorenzo
Mathias Sandorf
Movie • 1963
Toronthal
Feu la mère de Madame
Movie • 1978
Lucien
Tuesday's Guest
Movie • 1950
Charles Josse, agent d'assurance
Voltati Eugenio
Movie • 1980
Grandfather Eugenio
Ada in the Jungle
Movie • 1988
Major Collins
High Infidelity
Movie • 1964
Sergio
How to Make a French Dish
Movie • 1964
Joseph
On purge bébé
Movie • 1979
M. Follavoine
I Hate Actors
Movie • 1986
Jerome B. Cobb
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Movie • 1941
Officer from the Gendarmerie
Youth in Revolt
Movie • 1938
Benoît
The Man in the Raincoat
Movie • 1957
Mr Raphaël, le maître chanteur
The Gambler
Movie • 1958
General Zagoriensky
Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Movie • 1937
Chinese In Paris
Movie • 1974
Le Président de la République
Sans famille
Movie • 1958
Renato Garofoli
Farandole
Movie • 1945
Sylvestre
Night in December
Movie • 1941
Édouard
L'École des femmes
Movie • 1973
Arnolphe
The Secrets of the Bed
Movie • 1954
Emile Bergeret (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
The Magnificent Adventurer
Movie • 1963
Clemente VII
Cher Victor
Movie • 1975
Anselme Maillard
Chance at Love
Movie • 1964
Camille (segment "Une chance explosive")
Bernard Blier, façon puzzle
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
C'est pas Parce qu'on n'a Rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa Gueule...
Movie
Stéphane, dit Phano
Cuore
TV • 1984
Ing. Bottini
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self