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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
Madame Bovary
(1991)
Narrateur
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Oscar D'Onofrio
Z
(1969)
Public Prosecutor
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Santi
Orpheus
(1950)
Heurtebise
What?
(1972)
Enzo
Stavisky...
(1974)
Albert Borelli
The Organizer
(1963)
Maestro Di Meo
Hôtel du Nord
(1938)
Adrien
Weekend at Dunkirk
(1964)
Alexandre
Testament of Orpheus
(1960)
Heurtebise
The Assassination
(1972)
René Rouannat
The Fighter
(1983)
Gino Ruggieri
Police Python 357
(1976)
Commissaire Ganay
Gervaise
(1956)
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
Full Filmography
Acting
Hôtel du Nord
(1938)
Adrien
Mother Love
(1938)
Batilly
The End of the Day
(1939)
Le journaliste
Nightclub Hostess
(1939)
Jean
The Fatted Calf
(1939)
Gaston Vachon
Premier bal
(1941)
Ernest Vilar
The Duel
(1941)
François
Happy Days
(1941)
Bernard
Love Letters
(1942)
François de Portal
Love Marriage
(1942)
Pierre
The Wolf Farm
(1943)
Bastien
The White Truck
(1943)
François Ledru
Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
(1944)
Dominique Verdelet
L'Enfant de l'amour
(1944)
Maurice Orland
Sylvia and the Ghost
(1946)
Ramure, le voleur
The Temptation of Barbizon
(1946)
Ben Atkinson / The Devil
Happy Go Lucky
(1946)
Denis Carignol
A Lover's Return
(1946)
François
Silence Is Golden
(1947)
Jacques
The Loves of Colette
(1948)
François Lecoc
A Girl Knew
(1948)
'Coco' Levaison
Femme sans passé
(1948)
Michel
Return to Life
(1949)
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Jean de la Lune
(1949)
Clotaire, aka Cloclo
Orpheus
(1950)
Heurtebise
Lost Souvenirs
(1950)
Jean-Pierre Delagrange
The Elders of Saint-Loup
(1950)
Charles Merlin
Au p'tit zouave
(1950)
M. Denis
The Century Is Fifty
(1950)
Self
Sorceror
(1950)
Michel Riverain
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
Captain Slipper
(1953)
Emmanuel Bonnavent, le sous directeur de la banque
It Happened in the Park
(1953)
The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)
Hello Paris
(1953)
Narrateur (Voice)
Un trésor de femme
(1953)
François Delaroche
Jeunes mariés
(1953)
Cadet Rousselle
(1954)
Cadet Rousselle
Marriage Episodes
(1954)
M. Trielle
The Secrets of the Bed
(1954)
Bertrand Germain-Latour
The Anatomy of Love
(1954)
L'innamorato
The Fugitives
(1955)
François
Intermediate Landing in Paris
(1955)
Pierre Brissac
Gervaise
(1956)
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
I'll Get Back to Kandara
(1956)
André Barret
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
Oscar D'Onofrio
Demoniac
(1957)
Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
Anyone Can Kill Me
(1957)
Paul, le directeur de la prison
Too Many Lovers
(1957)
Robert
Que les hommes sont bêtes
(1957)
Roland Devert
The Melbourne Rendezvous
(1957)
Narrator
Stars Never Die
(1957)
Narrator (voice)
The Amorous Corporal
(1958)
La Bigorne
Maxime
(1958)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Creation of the World
(1958)
The Magistrate
(1959)
Luigi Bonelli
The Dreadful
(1959)
Commentaire
Bobosse
(1959)
Tony Varlet / Bobosse / Les six jurés ...
Testament of Orpheus
(1960)
Heurtebise
Love and the Frenchwoman
(1960)
Michel, le mari (Le Divorce)
Lovers on a Tightrope
(1960)
Daniel
Paris Loves
(1961)
Maurice Lasnier
Five Day Lover
(1961)
Georges
Réveille-toi, chérie
(1961)
Robert
Hitch-Hike
(1962)
l'homme de 40 ans
Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
(1962)
People in Luck
(1963)
Jérôme Boisselier (« Le Vison »)
The Organizer
(1963)
Maestro Di Meo
The Visitor
(1963)
Adolfo Di Palma
The Bamboo Stroke
(1963)
Léon Brissac
Sweet and Sour
(1963)
Legrand (le nounou 1)
Weekend at Dunkirk
(1964)
Alexandre
Le Samouraï
(1967)
Superintendant
Shock Troops
(1967)
Moujon
Le temps des doryphores
(1967)
Commentator (voice)
L'enfant de la haute mer
(1968)
Dit par
Z
(1969)
Public Prosecutor
Les Gauloises bleues
(1969)
Le juge
Le Cercle Rouge
(1970)
Santi
Give Her the Moon
(1970)
Jean-Jules de Lépine
Max and the Junkmen
(1971)
Rosinsky
Just Before Nightfall
(1971)
François Tellier
Tumuc Humac
(1971)
What?
(1972)
Enzo
The Assassination
(1972)
René Rouannat
La nuit bulgare
(1972)
Lafond
We Want the Colonels
(1973)
On. Gigino Di Cori
The Train Rolls On
(1973)
Narrator
Stavisky...
(1974)
Albert Borelli
Antoine and Sebastian
(1974)
Antoine
Les Deux mémoires
(1974)
Self
Police Python 357
(1976)
Commissaire Ganay
Doctor Francoise Gailland
(1976)
Gérard Gailland
The Spiral
(1976)
Narrator (French version) (voice)
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
Le Tartuffe
(1984)
Orgon
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
(1984)
Narrator
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
La Pagaille
(1991)
Gabriel
Madame Bovary
(1991)
Narrateur
Voyage à Rome
(1992)
The father
De force avec d'autres
(1993)
self (archive footage)
Mémoires d'un jeune con
(1996)
Frédéric's father