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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.
British Academy Film Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Known For
Le Samouraï
(1967)
Superintendant
What?
(1972)
Enzo
Madame Bovary
(1991)
Narrateur
Z
(1969)
Public Prosecutor
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Oscar D'Onofrio
The Organizer
(1963)
Maestro Di Meo
Orpheus
(1950)
Heurtebise
Gervaise
(1956)
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
The Visitor
(1963)
Adolfo Di Palma
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Santi
Hôtel du Nord
(1938)
Adrien
Stavisky...
(1974)
Albert Borelli
It Happened in the Park
(1953)
The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)
Weekend at Dunkirk
(1964)
Alexandre
Max and the Junkmen
(1971)
Rosinsky
The Assassination
(1972)
René Rouannat
Full Filmography
Acting
Mother Love
(1938)
Batilly
Hôtel du Nord
(1938)
Adrien
The End of the Day
(1939)
Le journaliste
Nightclub Hostess
(1939)
Jean
The Fatted Calf
(1939)
Gaston Vachon
Happy Days
(1941)
Bernard
Premier bal
(1941)
Ernest Vilar
The Duel
(1941)
François
Love Marriage
(1942)
Pierre
Love Letters
(1942)
François de Portal
The White Truck
(1943)
François Ledru
The Wolf Farm
(1943)
Bastien
L'Enfant de l'amour
(1944)
Maurice Orland
Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
(1944)
Dominique Verdelet
Sylvia and the Ghost
(1946)
Ramure, le voleur
A Lover's Return
(1946)
François
The Temptation of Barbizon
(1946)
Ben Atkinson / The Devil
Happy Go Lucky
(1946)
Denis Carignol
Silence Is Golden
(1947)
Jacques
The Loves of Colette
(1948)
François Lecoc
Femme sans passé
(1948)
Michel
A Girl Knew
(1948)
'Coco' Levaison
Return to Life
(1949)
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Jean de la Lune
(1949)
Clotaire, aka Cloclo
Lost Souvenirs
(1950)
Jean-Pierre Delagrange
The Elders of Saint-Loup
(1950)
Charles Merlin
Orpheus
(1950)
Heurtebise
Sorceror
(1950)
Michel Riverain
Au p'tit zouave
(1950)
M. Denis
The Century Is Fifty
(1950)
Self
My Seal and Them
(1951)
François Verville
Under the Paris Sky
(1951)
Reciter (voice)
She and Me
(1952)
Jean Montaigu
Love, Madame
(1952)
François Célerier
Jeunes mariés
(1953)
It Happened in the Park
(1953)
The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)
Captain Slipper
(1953)
Emmanuel Bonnavent, le sous directeur de la banque
Un trésor de femme
(1953)
François Delaroche
Hello Paris
(1953)
Narrateur (Voice)
The Secrets of the Bed
(1954)
Bertrand Germain-Latour
Cadet Rousselle
(1954)
Cadet Rousselle
The Anatomy of Love
(1954)
L'innamorato
Marriage Episodes
(1954)
M. Trielle
Intermediate Landing in Paris
(1955)
Pierre Brissac
The Fugitives
(1955)
François
Gervaise
(1956)
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
I'll Get Back to Kandara
(1956)
André Barret
Demoniac
(1957)
Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
Que les hommes sont bêtes
(1957)
Roland Devert
The Melbourne Rendezvous
(1957)
Narrator
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Oscar D'Onofrio
Anyone Can Kill Me
(1957)
Paul, le directeur de la prison
Too Many Lovers
(1957)
Robert
Stars Never Die
(1957)
Narrator (voice)
The Creation of the World
(1958)
Maxime
(1958)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Amorous Corporal
(1958)
La Bigorne
The Dreadful
(1959)
Commentaire
Bobosse
(1959)
Tony Varlet / Bobosse / Les six jurés ...
The Magistrate
(1959)
Luigi Bonelli
Love and the Frenchwoman
(1960)
Michel, le mari (Le Divorce)
Lovers on a Tightrope
(1960)
Daniel
Testament of Orpheus
(1960)
Heurtebise
Paris Loves
(1961)
Maurice Lasnier
Réveille-toi, chérie
(1961)
Robert
Five Day Lover
(1961)
Georges
Hitch-Hike
(1962)
l'homme de 40 ans
Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
(1962)
The Bamboo Stroke
(1963)
Léon Brissac
Sweet and Sour
(1963)
Legrand (le nounou 1)
The Organizer
(1963)
Maestro Di Meo
People in Luck
(1963)
Jérôme Boisselier (« Le Vison »)
The Visitor
(1963)
Adolfo Di Palma
Weekend at Dunkirk
(1964)
Alexandre
Le Samouraï
(1967)
Superintendant
Le temps des doryphores
(1967)
Commentator (voice)
Shock Troops
(1967)
Moujon
The Child of the High Seas
(1968)
Dit par
Z
(1969)
Public Prosecutor
Les Gauloises bleues
(1969)
Le juge
Give Her the Moon
(1970)
Jean-Jules de Lépine
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Santi
Just Before Nightfall
(1971)
François Tellier
Max and the Junkmen
(1971)
Rosinsky
Tumuc Humac
(1971)
The Assassination
(1972)
René Rouannat
What?
(1972)
Enzo
La nuit bulgare
(1972)
Lafond
We Want the Colonels
(1973)
On. Gigino Di Cori
The Train Rolls On
(1973)
Narrator
Les Deux mémoires
(1974)
Self
Antoine and Sebastian
(1974)
Antoine
Stavisky...
(1974)
Albert Borelli
The Spiral
(1976)
Narrator (French version) (voice)
Doctor Francoise Gailland
(1976)
Gérard Gailland
Police Python 357
(1976)
Commissaire Ganay
A Grin Without a Cat
(1977)
Narrator (voice)
Baxter, Vera Baxter
(1977)
Jean Baxter (voice)
State Reasons
(1978)
Prof. Marrot
The Police War
(1979)
Colombani, Chief of police
The Telephone Bar
(1980)
Commissaire Claude Joinville
The Fighter
(1983)
Gino Ruggieri
Fellini nel cestino
(1983)
Self
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
(1984)
Narrator
Le Tartuffe
(1984)
Orgon
Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
(1985)
Jacque Alavarez
Keep Your Right Up
(1987)
Man
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
(1989)
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Elegant Criminal
(1990)
Lacenaire's father
Madame Bovary
(1991)
Narrateur
La Pagaille
(1991)
Gabriel
Voyage à Rome
(1992)
The father
De force avec d'autres
(1993)
self (archive footage)
Mémoires d'un jeune con
(1996)
Frédéric's father