Bernard Blier
Birthday: 1916-01-11
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
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A Legitimate Defense
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Call Me Mathilde
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Des Hommes Et Des Montagnes
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Secrets of a French Nurse
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Do or Die!
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Grisou
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The Stream
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Young Girls of Good Families
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The Bonnadieu House
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The Magnificent Cuckold
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Alone in the Night
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Marie-Martine
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The Hunchback
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The Madman of Lab Four
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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
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Under the Chinese Restaurant
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
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The Phoney
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A Matter of Honor
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Passion of Love
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Homo Eroticus
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Without Leaving an Address
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There's Always a Price Tag
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The Great War
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Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
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Quick Trial
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Hell of Angels
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Daybreak
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
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Dear Caroline
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The Cheat
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Let's Hope It's a Girl
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Hypochondriac
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Black Dossier
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My Friends
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Distracted
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Seduction Of The South
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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
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Premier bal
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Idiot in Paris
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Operation Gold Ingot
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The Black Monocle
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Why Paris?
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Domino
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Migrations
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Ring Around the World
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Nights of Boccaccio
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Matrimonial Agency
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School for Coquettes
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The Green Dress
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Follow That Man
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Monsignor
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Eyes of Love
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Before the Deluge
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The Fenouillard Family
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Ante Up
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The Possessed
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Paganini
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Catch Me a Spy
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Bloody Murder
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Man to Men
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Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
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The Spice of Life
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Messieurs Ludovic
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I Am with You
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1848
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Marriage Episodes
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Casanova '70
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Carmen
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Tuesday's Guest
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Voltati Eugenio
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Ada in the Jungle
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High Infidelity
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I Hate Actors
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
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Youth in Revolt
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The Man in the Raincoat
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The Gambler
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
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Chinese In Paris
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Sans famille
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Farandole
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Night in December
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L'École des femmes
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The Secrets of the Bed
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The Magnificent Adventurer
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Cher Victor
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Bernard Blier, façon puzzle
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
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