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 n...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Retour à Fonteyne
1999
as Antoine
Rivalries divide the sons of the owner of a wine estate in Cognac.
Éternelles
1994
as The father
20 years old Denis is a mason for his father's small business. One day, his grand-mother won't wake up anymore.

Mother
1991
as Father Pignon
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...

The Year of Awakening
1991
as le colonel
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.

Follow My Gaze
1986
as Le présentateur TV
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...

Brigade of Death
1985
as Robert Capes
When the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.

Hiver 60
1983
as Emile, le père d'André
In 1960, the announcement of social regression measures decided by the Belgian government triggered a wildcat strike by workers. Albert and Fred were ...
Sept hommes en enfer
1981
as Guillaume
As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker.

Three Men to Destroy
1980
as Liethard
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped h...

The Hurried Man
1977
as Cardiologist
Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real...

Jambon d'Ardenne
1977
as L'entrepreneur
During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand...

Serious as Pleasure
1975
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio...

La Ligne de démarcation
1973
as Marcellin

Coup de sang
1973
as Vincent Tuarelli
In Bastia and the surrounding area, a deceived husband kills his rival in anger. But are things as simple as they seem?

The Burned Barns
1973
as Captain of gendarmerie
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.

The Lonely Killers
1972
as The worker
Set against the grim backdrop of a Belgian city, the film depicts two young men who kill randoms and hunt people for nothing.

Les Jambes en l'air
1971
as Marcel
Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.

Falling Point
1970
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, i...

The Horse
1970
as Léon, Mathilde’s husband
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things g...

Peace in the Fields
1970
as Stanne Vanasche
This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for...

Winter
1969
as Le producteur
While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marria...

Army of Shadows
1969
as Guillaume Vermesch / The Buffalo
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in o...

Target: Harry
1969
as Sulley Boulez
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are af...

La désirade
1969
as Motorist
Nénette, a promiscuous pipe-smoking girl, loves Claude, a gangster who has just pulled off a gainful heist. They both drive to Le Havre from where the...

Franciscan of Bourges
1968
as Abbot Barret
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance member...

The Man in the Buick
1968
as Maxime
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who woul...

Million Dollar Man
1967
as Carl
A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes ...

Lamiel
1967
as Vidocq
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through ...

The Ponies
1967
The rise and fall of a journalist, named Max Torp, who runs a youth magazine, a private club, a tour agency and a pirate radio.

Law of Survival
1967
In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who sh...

Trans-Europ-Express
1966
as Lorentz
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on th...

Maigret at the Pigalle
1966
as Ispettore Torrence
Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, bo...

The Black Indies
1964
as Silfax
In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve...

Marie Soleil
1964
as The farm manager
He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He's a runner and a pretty boy. She's beauti...

Weekend at Dunkirk
1964
as Paul
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Brit...

Lucky Jo
1964
as Le commissaire Odile
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredi...

Nest of Spies
1956
as Professor Verdier
The mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security.