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Bernard Blier
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Bernard Blier was a French actor who worked in stage, film, and television. Born in Buenos Aires in 1916, he began his career in 1936. He was educated at Lycée Condorcet and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. His professional activity ended in 1988.
Blier received the Honorary César and the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor. He was the father of Bertrand Blier. He died of prostate cancer in Saint-Cloud in 1989. He is buried at Cimetière parisien de Thiais.
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Film & TV
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.…
Known for
- L'Âge d'or de la pub — Self (archive footage)2023
- Bernard Blier, façon puzzle — Self (archive footage)2020
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard — Self - Actor (archive footage)2017
- Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes — Self (archive footage)2002
- Paganini — Pater Caffarelli1990
- Migrations — Opat Žoržel1989
- Taste of Life — Giuseppe Mondardini1988
- Nailcruncher — Saltiel1988
- The Possessed — Governor1988
- Ada in the Jungle — Major Collins1988
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bernard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires
- Place of death
- Saint-Cloud
- Child
- Bertrand Blier
- Occupation
- television actor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- Blier-1951-Harcourt.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bernard Blier
- date of birth
- 1916-01-11
- date of death
- 1989-03-29
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Bernard Blier
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- start of work period
- 1936-00-00
- place of burial
- Cimetière parisien de Thiais
- end of work period
- 1988-00-00
- different from
- Bertrand Blier
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