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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.

Selected films

• Hôtel du Nord (1938)
• Le Jour se lève (1939)
• La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
• Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
• Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
• 1848 (1949)
• Return to Life (1949)
• ...Sans laisser d'adresse (1951)
• Before the Deluge (1954)
• Black Dossier (1955)
• Retour de manivelle (1957)
• Les Misérables (1958)
• Archimède le clochard (1959)
• Le 7 éme juré (1962)
• Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
• Greed in the Sun (1964)
• A Question of Honour (1965)
• The Stranger (1967)
• Coplan Saves His Skin (1968)
• My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
• Le Distrait (1970)
• Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972) — The film is known in UK as Follow That Guy with the One Black Shoe, in Germany as Der Große Blonde mit dem schwarzen Schuh, and recast in the USA as The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe.
• Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973)
• Le retour du grand blond (1974)
• Cher Victor (1975)
• Golden Night (1976)
• Buffet froid (1979)
• Série noire (1979)
• Passion of Love (1981)
• The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985)
• Madman at War (1985)

External links

• Bernard Blier at the Internet Movie Database