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François Périer
Born: 10th Nov 1919 Paris, France - Died 28th Jun 2002
Dept: Acting
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François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 131
Film: 118 (90%)
Television: 13 (10%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Mystery, Music, Animation, Action & Adventure, TV Movie, Action, War & Politics, Reality, News, Horror
Filmography
Original title: Belmondo l'incorrigible
2022
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had o ... view
Character:
1996
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a ro ... view
Character:
Frédéric's father
1993
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back t ... view
Character:
self (archive footage)
1992
Thierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared to accept it;he calls on his parents,to be confronted w ... view
Character:
The father
1991
To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divo ... view
Character:
Gabriel
1991
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spendi ... view
Character:
Narrateur
Original title: Lacenaire
1990
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while ... view
Character:
Lacenaire's father
Original title: Histoire(s) du cinéma 1b : une histoire seule
1989
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Original title: Soigne ta droite
1987
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, ... view
Character:
Man
Original title: 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir
1984
Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor movement of ... view
Character:
Narrator
1984
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgo ... view
Character:
Orgon
Mar 1984 (first aired)
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, a ... view
Character:
Avvocato Terrasini (19 ep.)
Original title: Le Battant
1983
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs. ... view
Character:
Gino Ruggieri
Original title: Le Bar du téléphone
1980
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family. ... view
Character:
Commissaire Claude Joinville
Original title: La Guerre des polices
1979
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworl ... view
Character:
Colombani, Chief of police
Dec 1978 (first aired)
The series Mazarin (1978) recounts the rise of Jules Mazarin, first an Italian diplomat and later France’s chief minister after Richelieu. The story ... view
Character:
Mazarin (6 ep.)
Original title: La Raison d'État
1978
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its ... view
Character:
Prof. Marrot
Original title: Le fond de l'air est rouge
1977
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1977
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxt ... view
Character:
Jean Baxter (voice)
Original title: La Spirale
1976
Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1976
A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reveals disturbing connections to his own department. ... view
Character:
Commissaire Ganay
Original title: Docteur Françoise Gailland
1976
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, h ... view
Character:
Gérard Gailland
Jan 1975 (first aired)
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (72 ... view
Character:
Self (3 ep.)
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on h ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1974
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But ... view
Character:
Albert Borelli
Original title: Antoine et Sébastien
1974
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like hi ... view
Character:
Antoine
Original title: Vogliamo i colonnelli
1973
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts m ... view
Character:
On. Gigino Di Cori
Original title: L'Attentat
1972
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. ... view
Character:
René Rouannat
1972
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A ... view
Character:
Lafond
Jan 1972 (first aired)
Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the O ... view
Character:
Self (4 ep.)
Self (voice) (1 ep.)
Self - Main guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Le Train en marche
1971
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editin ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: Juste avant la nuit
1971
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in. ... view
Character:
François Tellier
Original title: Max et les ferrailleurs
1971
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand. ... view
Character:
Commissioner Rosinsky
1971
When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he leaves mainland France for French Guiana to try and f ... view
Character:
The judge
Original title: Le Cercle rouge
1970
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a cha ... view
Character:
Santi
Original title: Les Caprices de Marie
1970
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York. ... view
Character:
Jean-Jules de Lépine
1969
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of t ... view
Character:
Le juge
1969
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is det ... view
Character:
Public Prosecutor
Original title: L'enfant de la haute mer
1968
In a Breton village by the sea, a little girl lives alone. She never meets anyone, never ages, and seems trapped in this abandoned village. Does she r ... view
Character:
Dit par
1967
In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented France, forced to face the German invasion. Thanks to arc ... view
Character:
Commentator (voice)
1967
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police ... view
Character:
Superintendant
Original title: Un homme de trop
1967
A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being ... view
Character:
Moujon
Original title: Week-end à Zuydcoote
1964
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 ... view
Character:
Alexandre
Original title: La visita
1963
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She g ... view
Character:
Adolfo Di Palma
Original title: I compagni
1963
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory ... view
Character:
Maestro Di Meo
Original title: Dragées au poivre
1963
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with ... view
Character:
Legrand (le nounou 1)
Character:
Jérôme Boisselier (segment "Le Vison")
Original title: Le coup de bambou
1963
Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Angèle and Léon. Angèle, having forgotten the ten ... view
Character:
Léon Brissac
1962
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and les ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Original title: Les Petits Matins
1962
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she' ... view
Character:
l'homme de 40 ans
1961
Jacqueline, who lives in the country, has organized her life around her husband, whom she loves, and her lover, whom she has taken in for a little dis ... view
Character:
Robert
Original title: L'Amant de cinq jours
1961
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madelein ... view
Character:
Georges
Original title: Les Amours de Paris
1961
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband ... view
Character:
Maurice Lasnier
Original title: La Française et l'Amour
1960
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, ... view
Character:
Michel, le mari (segment "Le Divorce")
Original title: La Corde raide
1960
Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights ... view
Character:
Daniel
Original title: Le Testament d'Orphée
1960
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic ... view
Character:
Heurtebise(non crédité)
Original title: Il magistrato
1959
Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daught ... view
Character:
Luigi Bonelli
Original title: Les Affreux
1959
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carb ... view
Character:
Commentaire
1959
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where ... view
Character:
Tony Varlet / Bobosse / The six jurors / President of the court / Attorney general / Lawyer / Guard
1958
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Original title: La Bigorne, caporal de France
1958
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate. ... view
Character:
La Bigorne
Original title: Stvoření světa
1958
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and directed ... view
Character:
1958
Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America. ... view
Character:
Narration
Original title: Charmants Garçons
1957
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young in ... view
Character:
Robert
Original title: Tous peuvent me tuer
1957
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place t ... view
Character:
Paul, le directeur de la prison
Original title: Le notti di Cabiria
1957
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happines ... view
Character:
Oscar D'Onofrio
Original title: Les étoiles ne meurent jamais
1957
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raim ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Les Louves
1957
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been c ... view
Character:
Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
1957
Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day, the prett ... view
Character:
Roland Devert
Original title: Rendez-vous à Melbourne
1957
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy i ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: Je reviendrai à Kandara
1956
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall ... view
Character:
André Barret
1956
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal wi ... view
Character:
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
Original title: Les Évadés
1955
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. The ... view
Character:
François, employé de commerce
Original title: Escale à Orly
1955
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems a ... view
Character:
Pierre Brissac
1954
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer ... view
Character:
Cadet Rousselle
Original title: Scènes de ménage
1954
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustrate why they complain about their wives. ... view
Character:
M. Trielle
Original title: Secrets d'alcôve
1954
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by b ... view
Character:
Alfred Germain-Latour (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
Original title: Tempi nostri - Zibaldone n. 2
1954
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom. ... view
Character:
L'innamorato
Original title: Les Amants de Villa Borghese
1953
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there. ... view
Character:
Greek Professor (segment "Pi-greco")
Original title: Bonjour Paris
1953
Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s chimeras and gargoyles try to break them up, but they ... view
Character:
Narrateur (Voice)
Original title: Capitaine Pantoufle
1953
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not bett ... view
Character:
Emmanuel Bonnavent, deputy head of the bank
1953
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break d ... view
Character:
Jacques Delaroche
1953
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remov ... view
Character:
François Delaroche
Original title: Elle et moi
1952
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring ... view
Character:
Jean Montaigu
Original title: L’Amour, Madame...
1952
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans. ... view
Character:
François Célerier
Original title: Sous le ciel de Paris
1951
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. ... view
Character:
Reciter (voice)
Original title: Mon phoque et elles
1951
A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his ev ... view
Character:
François Verville
Original title: Souvenirs perdus
1950
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and ... view
Character:
Jean-Pierre Delagrange (episode "Une couronne mortuaire")
Original title: Orphée
1950
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, ... view
Character:
Heurtebise
Original title: Les Anciens de Saint-Loup
1950
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the ... view
Character:
Charles Merlin
Original title: Ce siècle a cinquante ans
1950
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa ... view
Character:
Self
1950
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars. ... view
Character:
M. Denis
Original title: La Souricière
1950
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is o ... view
Character:
Michel Riverain
Original title: Retour à la vie
1949
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl ... view
Character:
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
1949
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and he ... view
Character:
Clotaire, aka Cloclo
1948
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of c ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: La Vie en rose
1948
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a d ... view
Character:
François Lecoc
Original title: Une jeune fille savait
1948
An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has always succeeded; however this son has difficult ... view
Character:
'Coco' Levaison
Original title: Le silence est d'or
1947
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a to ... view
Character:
Jacques Francet
1946
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before. ... view
Character:
François
Original title: Au petit bonheur
1946
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to sp ... view
Character:
Denis Carignol
Original title: La Tentation de Barbizon
1946
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. Th ... view
Character:
Ben Atkinson / The Devil
Original title: Sylvie et le fantôme
1946
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father h ... view
Character:
Ramure, thief
1944
This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is no ... view
Character:
Maurice Orland
Original title: Bonsoir Mesdames, Bonsoir Messieurs
1944
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciat ... view
Character:
Dominique Verdelet
Original title: La Ferme aux loups
1943
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off o ... view
Character:
Bastien
Original title: Le Camion blanc
1943
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route. ... view
Character:
François Ledru
Original title: Mariage d'amour
1942
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute ... view
Character:
Pierre
Original title: Lettres d'amour
1942
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that ... view
Character:
François de Portal
Original title: Les Jours heureux
1941
Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette suggests to Marianne, who wants to be appreciated ... view
Character:
Bernard
1941
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other. ... view
Character:
Ernest Vilar
Original title: Le Duel
1941
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought bac ... view
Character:
François
Original title: L'Entraîneuse
1939
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would ... view
Character:
Jean
Original title: Le Veau gras
1939
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whos ... view
Character:
Gaston Vachon
Original title: La Fin du jour
1939
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he ha ... view
Character:
Journalist
1938
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love. ... view
Character:
Adrien
Original title: La Chaleur du sein
1938
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father ... view
Character:
Batilly