Biography
Richard Berry (born Richard Élie Benguigui, 31 July 1950) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. He has a daughter, Coline, born 1976, from his relationship with actress Catherine Hiegel. He married singer and actress Jeane Manson in 1984. The couple divorced in 1986. With his former wife Jessica Forde, a photographer and actress, he has a daughte...
Known For
Complete Filmography

La Tournée
2025
as Grégory Laurent

Spirale
2024
as Lenny
The story of Franck, a man tormented by the emptiness and violence of a society he considers corrupt. Through a series of encounters and confrontation...

La loi de Damien, l'égal des dieux
2019
as Maître Damien Turenne

L'ordre des choses
2019
Director
At sixty, Bernard Hubert has finally settled down and lives perfect love with Juliette, who is more than twenty years younger than him when they see l...

To Each, Her Own
2018
as Norbert Benloulou
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.

Eva
2018
as Régis Grant
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

Johnny Hallyday, la France Rock'n Roll
2017
as Narrator (voice)

Number One
2017
as Jean Beaumel
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The co...

Murder in Lille
2017
as Commissaire François Dubois
The body of a man is found hanging in an old mine shaft

Father Son Therapy
2016
as Jacques Laroche
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.

The Origin of Violence
2016
as Adrien Fabre (2014)
A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.

Everything Now
2016
as Daniel Halimi
This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves Th...

Everything Now
2016
Writer, Director
This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves Th...

Délivrance
2015
Vocals

Our Women
2015
as Max
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up ...

Our Women
2015
Director, Adaptation, Dialogue
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up ...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Family Business
2014
as Professeur Antoine Legendre
Brothers Yvan and Max are total opposites. One is a hypochondriac; the other, a carefree optimist. Their little sister Hélène suffers from kidney prob...

Family Business
2014
Writer
Brothers Yvan and Max are total opposites. One is a hypochondriac; the other, a carefree optimist. Their little sister Hélène suffers from kidney prob...

Before the Winter Chill
2013
as Gérard
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his...

Silences d'état
2013
as Jacques Rohmerieu

Rue Mandar
2013
as Charles
When their beloved Polish immigrant mother passes away, the sisters Emma (Kiberlain) and Rosemonde (Devos), and their brother, Charles (Berry), are ob...

Le Début de la fin
2012
as Alain Bauman

Le Début de la fin
2012
Director

The Great Restaurant II
2011
as A man from the “absurd locker room”
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.

D'un film à l'autre
2011
as Self (archive footage)
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that...

The Marquis
2011
as Quentin Tasseau
Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of h...

22 Bullets
2010
as Aurelio Rampoli
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

22 Bullets
2010
Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

The Life Coach
2009
as Maximilien Chêne
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gamblin...

A French Gigolo
2008
as Lucas
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married...

Une suite pour 2
2008
as Laurent Rozier

Crossfire
2008
as Drieu
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The d...

A Pain in the Ass
2008
as Jean Milan / Ralf Milan
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.

Comme ton père
2007
as Serge
1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques années plus tard, à peine installé à...

In Love with Adolf Hitler
2007
as Narrator (voice)
This film captures the affair, full of love, lust, and despair, between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, from 1932 until their double suicide in 1945.

Please Don't Go
2007
as Paul
Paul may be a successful psychoanalyst but he fails to realize that his own marriage to Carla is failing. One of his patients, Raphaël, confides in hi...

La Chasse à l'homme
2006
as Lucien Aimé-Blanc

Terminus
2006

Red Needles
2006
as Luc's father
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so maje...

The Valet
2006
as Maître Foix
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by in...

Black Box
2005
Director, Writer
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.

Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
2004
as Me David Marchal

L'Américain
2004
as Le professeur d'anglais
Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.

Mon voisin du dessus
2004
as Alain Gareda
Claire Letellier works as head of a pharmaceutical company. After dating André for a number of years, she has at long last accepted his marriage propo...

Corto Maltese - Autres aventures
2003
as Corto Maltese

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Corto Maltese: The Celts
2003
as Corto Maltese (FR)

Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
2003
as Corto Maltese (FR)
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo sp...

Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
2003
as Corto Maltese (FR)
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens ...

Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
2003
as Corto Maltese (FR)
Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of P...

Ruby & Quentin
2003
as Commissioner Vernet
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a so...

My Children Are Different
2003
as Jean Debart
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

I, Cesar
2003
Original Story, Director, Writer
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance...

If I Were a Rich Man
2002
as Gérard dit Gégé
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambiti...

Corto Maltese: Heads and Mushrooms
2002
as Corto Maltese (FR)

Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane
2002
as Corto Maltese (FR)
At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oral mountains and Shanghai. Stuck ...

Break of Dawn
2002
as Adrien
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politi...

Corto Maltese and the Ethiopian
2002
as Corto Maltese (FR)
Compilation of three stories about laconic adventurer Corto Maltese set in 1918. He infiltrates a fort where young prince Saud is being held, tries to...

Le nouveau Jean-Claude
2002
as Luis
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.

Angel
2001
as David Koskas
Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittori...

August 15th
2001
as Max
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
2001
as Jacques
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, ...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
2001
Director, Writer
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, ...

People Who Love Each Other
2000
as Jean-Francois
Jean-Francois and Angie have known each other for 25 years and have been lovers on and off for most of that time. After two marriages (one ending in d...

Quasimodo d'el Paris
1999
as Serge Frollo
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the ...

Une journée de merde !
1999
as Marc Chanois
This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in P...

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1999

Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
1999
as Self
Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some o...

Un grand cri d'amour
1998
as Hugo Martial
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.

L'Enfant du secret
1996
as St. Brieux
Blanche, a social worker living in Southern France is assigned the case of a five year old deaf boy, who is found by a Gypsy lady after having been ab...
The Lambs
1996
as Father
In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love thr...

What a Drag
1996
as Alexandre Hagutte
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.

Victor et François
1995
as Roland
Victor, an eight-year-old boy, finds himself at the head of a large fortune after the death of his father, Philippe. Hélène, his mother, is courted by...

Le cavalier des nuages
1995
as Joss
Luc Farraud, a journalist and former hostage in Lebanon, lives alone in the wilderness. But his tranquility is disrupted by the arrival of Joss, a you...

The World of Jacques Demy
1995
as Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

Adultery (A User's Guide)
1995
as Simon
This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the re...

Fresh Bait
1995
as Alain
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do any...

Mutual Consent
1994
as Romain
There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their da...
Tra noi due tutto è finito
1994
as Daniele Fornari
A seducer finds himself in crisis when his woman makes him believe he has a lover. The search for the suspect rival has the upper hand, with unexpecte...

The Violin Player
1994
as Armand
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Arma...

Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
1993
A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, C...

The Big Pardon 2
1992
as Maurice Bettoun
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he ...

And the Little Prince Said
1992
as Adam Leibovich
A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughter's life-threatening illness. He, a scientist, snatches his daughter from the examining t...

588 rue Paradis
1992
as Pierre Zakar
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He n...

My Life Is Hell
1991
as Xavier Langsam
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervene...

Mother
1991
as Pierre Zakar (voice only)
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Mar...
Shadows of the Past
1991
as Daniel
After a mysterious car accident, photo journalist Jackie Delaney wakes up in the hospital with amnesia. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident, she che...

For Sasha
1991
as Sacha
Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three fr...

L'entraînement du champion avant la course
1991
as Fabrice
Fabrice is an otherwise brutish truck driver who loves the disciplines involved in bicycle racing. He's no champion and doesn't appear to care much wh...

Comprarsi la vita
1990
as Giorgio

C'est La Vie
1990
as Michel
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a ...

Migrations II
1989
as Aranđel Isaković
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lota...

Modì
1989
as Amedeo Modigliani
The life of Amedeo Modigliani, a painter and a genius.

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

Brothers in Arms
1989
as Karim Hamida
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover age...

Cayenne Palace
1987
as Noël
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft so...

Spiral
1987
as Jérôme
Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jé...

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
as Richard Berry
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director who...

Taxi Boy
1986
as Gerard Lepetit / Manuel del Castillo
The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three soli...

Follow My Gaze
1986
as The narrator
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...

Honeymoon
1985
as Michel
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of ...

Spécial police
1985
as David Ackerman
Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about pe...

Urgence
1985
as Jean-Pierre Mougin
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with t...

The Bitch
1984
as Lucien Sabatier
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangste...

L'Addition
1984
as Bruno Vinclert
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he i...
La trace
1983
as Joseph
In 1859, Savoy Alps, Joseph is a peddler who leaves his mountain village to travel through Northern Italy to sell cotton, thread, lace and trinkets. H...

Le Grand Carnaval
1983
as Rémy Castelli, le pilote d'avion, fils aîné de Léon
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.

Le Jeune Marié
1983
as Christian Chavasse aka Billy
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.

Le Crime d'amour
1982
as Michel Naulet
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

La Balance
1982
as Mathias Palouzi
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

A Room in Town
1982
as François Guilbaud
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

The Big Pardon
1982
as Maurice Beitoun
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's frie...

L'homme fragile
1981
as Henri Natange
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.

An Assassin Passes By
1981
as Jacques
The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the ...

First Voyage
1980
as Jean Decaze
When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.
Vive la mariée
1980
as Bruno
A César award nominate short feature.

Love on the Run
1979
as Petit Rôle (uncredited)
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts,...
Mon premier amour
1978
as Richard
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that...

The Slap
1974
as Student (uncredited)
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

Le bonheur des autres
1973
as Le prince Djelal Eldine, neveu du sultant d'Urganie

Repeated Absences
1972
as Le collègue de la banque
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.