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
Complete Filmography

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

Bernard Blier, façon puzzle
2020
as Self (archive footage)
In a career spanning more than half a century, Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films. He alone represents a history of French cinema without havi...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Paganini
1990
as Pater Caffarelli
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

Migrations
1989
as Opat Žoržel
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Taste of Life
1988
as Giuseppe Mondardini
Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accide...

Ada in the Jungle
1988
as Major Collins
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Nailcruncher
1988
as Saltiel
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.

The Possessed
1988
as Governor
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of p...

I picari
1987
as The exploiter of prostitutes
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

Under the Chinese Restaurant
1987
as Il professore
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.

Twist Again in Moscow
1986
as Alexei
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of th...

I Hate Actors
1986
as Jerome B. Cobb
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever p...

Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986
as Uncle Gugo
Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, tak...

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
1985
as Anselmo Paleari
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pa...

My Friends Act III
1985
as Sig. Lenzi
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their tim...

Madman at War
1985
as Belucci
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
1985
as Monsieur Guilledou
A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him alon...

Il turno
1981
as Don Marcantonio

Passion of Love
1981
as Major
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the ...

Pétrole ! Pétrole !
1981
as Emir Abdullah
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de so...

Voltati Eugenio
1980
as Grandfather Eugenio
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Gian...

Hypochondriac
1979
as Dr. Purgone
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiti...

Buffet Froid
1979
as Inspecteur Morvandieu
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contempo...

Serie Noire
1979
as Staplin
In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obses...

On purge bébé
1979
as M. Follavoine

Feu la mère de Madame
1978
as Lucien

The Body of My Enemy
1976
as Jean-Baptiste Liégeard
A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a tow...

Golden Night
1976
as Commissaire Pidoux
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members....

Femmes Fatales
1976
as Father Émile
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émi...

My Friends
1975
as Righi Niccolò
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

The Phoney
1975
as Maxime
While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the t...

It's Tough for Everybody
1975
as Paul Tardel
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.

Cher Victor
1975
as Anselme Maillard
A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring...

The Restroom Robbery
1975
as Phano
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.

Kisses Till Monday
1974
as Frankie Strong
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.

Ante Up
1974
as Priest
In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambl...

Quick Trial
1974
as Il giudice
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for i...

Par le sang des autres
1974
as Mayor
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets o...

Bloody Murder
1974
as Le commissaire Moureu
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness...

Chinese In Paris
1974
as Le Président de la République
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, w...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
as Gastié-le-Roy père
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfa...

L'École des femmes
1973
as Arnolphe
Arnolphe plans to marry Agnès, his ward, a naive and submissive young girl, whom he keeps recluse in a convent. His plans are threatened when Horace c...

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
as Adrien Colbard
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods...

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
as Colonel Bernard Milan
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identif...

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
1972
as Commissioner Camille Bistingo
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a...

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
as Le président Louis-Marcel Thulle
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur déno...

Nights of Boccaccio
1972
as Dr. Mazzeo
Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Gio...

Killer
1972
as François Tellier, director of the PJ
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, inten...

Homo Eroticus
1971
as Dr. Mezzini
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly...

Catch Me a Spy
1971
as Webb
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and...

Joe: The Busybody
1971
as Inspecteur Ducros
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
1971
as Persicelli
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. Th...

Troubleshooters
1971
as Commissaire Caillaud
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the ...

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971
as Monsieur K.
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.

Distracted
1970
as Guiton
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Le Mari, la femme et la mort
1970
as Sébastien

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970
as Liethard
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

Call Me Mathilde
1969
as Charles de Blanzac, Mathilde's husband
Mathilde de Blanzac is abducted on her way home from an evening at the opera with her wealthy industrialist husband. Her pathetic pieds-nickelés kidna...

My Uncle Benjamin
1969
as Marquis de Cambyse
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the mar...

The Fourth Wall
1969
as Andrea Brusa
Marco Baroni spent four years in an English school. When he returns to Rome, the behavior of his family members finds him unprepared: his father, moth...

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
1968
as Ubaldo Palmarini
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished ther...

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
as Charles aka 'Le Téméraire '
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

Coplan Saves His Skin
1968
as Marscar
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot th...

Dear Caroline
1968
as Georges Berthier
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politici...

The Madman of Lab Four
1967
as Mr. Beauchard, executive secretary linked to a gang
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss,...

The Stranger
1967
as Defense Counsel
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of viole...

If I Were a Spy
1967
as le Docteur Lefèvre
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.

Du mou dans la gâchette
1967
as Nicolas Pappas
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires the...

To Commit a Murder
1967
as Le commandant Rhome
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.

Idiot in Paris
1967
as Léon Dessertine, mandataire en viandes et ancien de l'assistance
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drun...

Ring Around the World
1966
as Lord Richard Berry
Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a glob...

The Restaurant
1966
as Le commissaire divisionnaire
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Delitto quasi perfetto
1966
as William Derek Robson

A Matter of Honor
1966
as Don Leandro Sanna
Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965
as Charles Labergerie, brothel keeper (segment “La Fermeture” & “Le Procès”)
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The sec...

When the Pheasants Pass
1965
as Hyacinthe Camus
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile ...

Casanova '70
1965
as Il commissario (non accreditato
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

The Great Spy Chase
1964
as Eusebio Cafarelli
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obt...

Chance at Love
1964
as Camille (segment "Une chance explosive")
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

The Magnificent Cuckold
1964
as Mariotti
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he star...

Male Hunt
1964
as M. Heurtin
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to conv...

Why Paris?
1964
as Building concierge
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.

Greed in the Sun
1964
as Mitch-Mitch
A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climacti...

How to Make a French Dish
1964
as Joseph
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romant...

High Infidelity
1964
as Sergio
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Crooks in Clover
1963
as Raoul Volfoni
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo k...

The Organizer
1963
as Martinetti
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory...

Germinal
1963
as Hennebeau
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low ...

The Magnificent Adventurer
1963
as Clemente VII
Benvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.

Young Girls of Good Families
1963
as Ribois
A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez

Mathias Sandorf
1963
as Toronthal
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced by...

The Seventh Juror
1962
as Grégoire Duval, pharmacist
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he h...

Hitch-Hike
1962
as Mr Rameau, le provincial en 2 cv
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'...

Operation Gold Ingot
1962
The owner of a high-tech heating mechanism is being forced by gangsters to help them in a plot to steal gold ingots. An ex-secret agent is called in t...

Seduction Of The South
1961
as Colonelo Breviglieri
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one...

The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
as Charles Lepicard
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money...

The Black Monocle
1961
as Commissaire Tournemire
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a Germa...

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Sully
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, ...

The President
1961
as Philippe Chalamont
At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key fi...

Women and War
1961
as le docteur Leproux, maire du village
In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. The wounded pilot seeks help. All the villagers, wh...

The Fenouillard Family
1961
as A traveler (uncredited)
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with highe...

...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
as Commissario Polizia
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.

The Hunchback
1960
as Feldwebel
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.

L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
1960
as le Patron
The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells milit...

Do or Die!
1960
as Lenzi
Stefan Borba was a member of a spy ring during the war but after the end of the conflict he opted out. Now he is a miner in Belgium and lives happily ...

Eyes of Love
1959
as Dr. Andrieux
During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she...

The Great War
1959
as Capitano Castelli
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to ...

The Great Deception
1959
as le baron d'Exter, le chef des espions à la solde des Prussiens
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit...

Marie-Octobre
1959
as Julien Simoneau
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network hav...

The Magnificent Tramp
1959
as M. Pichon, nouveau patron du café
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.

The Possessors
1958
as Simon Lachaume, bras droit de Noël
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business a...

The Gambler
1958
as General Zagoriensky
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagori...

A Legitimate Defense
1958
as Gustave Martinet
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre...

School for Coquettes
1958
as Labaume
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.

The Cat
1958
as Debrun
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swis...

Les Misérables
1958
as Javert father / Javert son
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Secrets of a French Nurse
1958
as René Lecomte
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watc...

Sans famille
1958
as Renato Garofoli
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his...

When a Woman Meddles
1957
as Félix Seguin
French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awk...

There's Always a Price Tag
1957
as Commissioner Plantavin
A wealthy businessman's wife tries to cover up his suicide to cash in his life insurance policy.

The Man in the Raincoat
1957
as Mr Raphaël, le maître chanteur
In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. Perceived by some people leaving ...

Crime and Punishment
1956
as Antoine Monestier
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a...

Revelation
1955
as Don Lorenzo
A young communist discovers the power of faith.

The Hussars
1955
as le brigadier Le Gouce
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in ...

Black Dossier
1955
as Le commissaire Noblet
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious de...

Marriage Episodes
1954
as la mari d'Aglaé
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustrate why they complain about their wives.

The Secrets of the Bed
1954
as Emile Bergeret (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by b...

Before the Deluge
1954
as Marcel Noblet
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le delug...

Follow That Man
1953
as Commissioner François Basquier
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. T...

Des Hommes Et Des Montagnes
1953
as Narrator
History, advice and demonstrations of mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif by the renowned guides of the National School of Ski and Mountaineering ...

I Was It Three Times
1952
as Henri Verdier / Hector van Broken
A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third ti...

Matrimonial Agency
1952
as Noël Pailleret
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

The Bonnadieu House
1951
as Félix Bonnadieu
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man...

Without Leaving an Address
1951
as Émile Gauthier, chauffeur de taxi et trésorier du syndicat
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

Lost Souvenirs
1950
as Police officer Raoul (segment "Le violon")
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and ...

The Elders of Saint-Loup
1950
as Jean Laclaux, ruined banker
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the ...

Tuesday's Guest
1950
as Charles Josse, agent d'assurance
When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.
1848
1950
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contemporary artists including Honor...

Sorceror
1950
as Jean-Pierre Lesourd
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is o...

Monsignor
1949
as Louis Mennechain
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descend...

Return to Life
1949
as Gaston (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl...

The Cheat
1949
as Robert
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother.

Truant School
1949
as Buffle Pascal, teacher
1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radicall...

The Spice of Life
1948
as L'importuné
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of every...

Dedee
1948
as "Monsieur", le patron du bar à entraîneuses
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets ...

Man to Men
1948
as Edmond Coquillot
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

Jenny Lamour
1947
as Maurice Martineau
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the th...

Clockface Cafe
1947
as Julien Couturier
Julien Couturier and his wife Louise, a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become ...

Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
1946
as Alex Grégoire
Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords...

Messieurs Ludovic
1946
as Ludovic Seguin
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will fin...

Alone in the Night
1945
as Inspector Pascal
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite...

Farandole
1945
as Sylvestre
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A...

Carmen
1944
as Remendado
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a versio...

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944
as Doctor Bernard
A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. R...

I Am with You
1943
as Robert Nattier
A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, dist...

Domino
1943
as Crémone
Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller galleries...

Marie-Martine
1943
as Maurice
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying t...

The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
as Hotel boy
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow,...

Fantastic Night
1942
as Lucien
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he f...

Threesome Romance
1942
as Marcel
From three successive marriages, Loys Erland had three very different boys: Charles, a convinced sportsman, Marcel, who runs a bank and Pierre, a youn...

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
1942
as André Bertod
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pi...

La Symphonie fantastique
1942
as Antoine Charbonnel
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitra...

The Woman I Loved the Most
1942
as Funeral home employee
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life...

Whims
1942
as Marcel
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as fo...

The Pavilion Burns
1941
as Benezy
Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occ...

Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941
as Officer from the Gendarmerie
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Fathe...

Premier bal
1941
as The maitre d'hotel
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.

Night in December
1941
as Édouard
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, qui...

Hell of Angels
1941
as Freddy, le patron du bistrot
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Latin Quarter
1939
as (uncredited)
A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a struggling artist. He falls in love with a studen...

Daybreak
1939
as Gaston
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Place de la Concorde
1939
as Brioche

Final Accord
1938
as Mérot
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

Hôtel du Nord
1938
as Prosper
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.

The Stream
1938
as Le chauffeur de taxi (non crédité)
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing he...

The Curtain Rises
1938
as Pescani, un élève du Conservatoire
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in f...

Youth in Revolt
1938
as Benoît
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were...

Grisou
1938
as le fils Mélée
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some acti...

The Green Dress
1937
as Le fils Pinchet
Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a ra...

Woman of Malacca
1937
as (uncredited)
Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not l...

Double Crime in the Maginot Line
1937
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct h...

Gribouille
1937
as Le jeune homme au tandem (uncredited)
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she...

The Messenger
1937
as Nick's chauffeur (uncredited)
Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels wit...

Trois... six... neuf
1937
Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnès then concludes a pact with him. During the three...