François Périer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Le Samouraï
as SuperintendantAfter carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai...
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Madame Bovary
as NarrateurBored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce...
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Nights of Cabiria
as Oscar D'OnofrioRome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued,...
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Z
as Public ProsecutorAmidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a...
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Stavisky...
as Albert BorelliIrresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make...
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Testament of Orpheus
as HeurtebiseOutside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by...
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Weekend at Dunkirk
as AlexandreIn June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien...
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Le Cercle Rouge
as SantiWhen French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...
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The Organizer
as Maestro Di MeoThe story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and...
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Orpheus
as HeurtebiseA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Max and the Junkmen
as RosinskyMax is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom...
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The Assassination
as René RouannatDarien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris,...
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What?
as EnzoA young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa...
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Police Python 357
as Commissaire GanayA tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder...
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Hôtel du Nord
as AdrienA young couple, Renée and Pierre, take a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal...
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Just Before Nightfall
as François TellierA married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn...
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Doctor Francoise Gailland
as Gérard GaillandDr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with...
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Gervaise
as Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueurAn adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising...
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People in Luck
as Jérôme Boisselier (« Le Vison »)A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
as Michel, le mari (Le Divorce)The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a...
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The Visitor
as Adolfo Di PalmaCertain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village...
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The Magistrate
as Luigi BonelliEmilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its...
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Captain Slipper
as Emmanuel Bonnavent, le sous directeur de la banqueA bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His...
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Shock Troops
as MoujonA French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...
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The Fighter
as Gino RuggieriJacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
as Ramure, le voleurA teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her...
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It Happened in the Park
as The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are...
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Au p'tit zouave
as M. DenisAu p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will...
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The Anatomy of Love
as L'innamoratoNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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The Police War
as Colombani, Chief of policeFush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
as Jean Baxter (voice)In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who...
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Give Her the Moon
as Jean-Jules de LépineMarie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with...
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The Fugitives
as FrançoisDuring the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from...
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Sweet and Sour
as Legrand (le nounou 1)Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows...
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Jeunes mariés
as uncreditedJacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on...
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We Want the Colonels
as On. Gigino Di CoriItaly 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't...
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Happy Go Lucky
as Denis CarignolAfter lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a...
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The Elegant Criminal
as Lacenaire's fatherOn 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives...
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The Creation of the World
as uncreditedLa Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact,...
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Lost Souvenirs
as Jean-Pierre DelagrangeSuppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A...
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Keep Your Right Up
as ManThis film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional...
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Five Day Lover
as GeorgesClaire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor...
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Under the Paris Sky
as Reciter (voice)Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of...
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Maxime
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young...
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Silence Is Golden
as JacquesEmile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his...
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A Grin Without a Cat
as Narrator (voice)French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the...
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Cadet Rousselle
as Cadet RousselleThe Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of...
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Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
as uncreditedIt was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people,...
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My Seal and Them
as François VervilleA diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough...
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Le Tartuffe
as OrgonOrgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him...
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Too Many Lovers
as RobertThe charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to...
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The Temptation of Barbizon
as Ben Atkinson / The DevilDaniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so...
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The End of the Day
as Le journalisteAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...
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The Fatted Calf
as Gaston VachonJules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his...
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A Lover's Return
as François1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man,...
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Anyone Can Kill Me
as Paul, le directeur de la prisonThe holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four...
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
as Pierre BrissacMichèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly...
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Lovers on a Tightrope
as DanielCora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri,...
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Love Letters
as François de PortalA plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official,...
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The Duel
as FrançoisA widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young...
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Nightclub Hostess
as JeanThe young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one...
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Love, Madame
as François CélerierMadame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but...
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Bobosse
as Tony Varlet / Bobosse / Les six jurés ...Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as...
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A Girl Knew
as 'Coco' LevaisonAn actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that...
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The Bamboo Stroke
as Léon BrissacAlbert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses,...
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Marriage Episodes
as M. TrielleThree old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which...
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Love Marriage
as PierrePierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a...
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
as Charles MerlinDue to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its...
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The Dreadful
as CommentaireCésar Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded...
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Hitch-Hike
as l'homme de 40 ansAgathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She...
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Return to Life
as Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...
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The Amorous Corporal
as La BigorneA group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win...
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The Secrets of the Bed
as Bertrand Germain-LatourFour-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural...
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Antoine and Sebastian
as AntoineAntoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is...
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State Reasons
as Prof. MarrotProfessor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon...
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Paris Loves
as Maurice LasnierLes amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of...
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La Pagaille
as GabrielTo a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it...
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The Spiral
as Narrator (French version) (voice)Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity...
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The Telephone Bar
as Commissaire Claude JoinvilleA gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
as Self - Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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Sorceror
as Michel RiverainA young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides...
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La nuit bulgare
as LafondA youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious...
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Premier bal
as Ernest VilarTwo country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is...
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Voyage à Rome
as The fatherThierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared...
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Demoniac
as Gervais Larauch / Bernard PradalGervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased...
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The Century Is Fifty
as SelfAs the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century...
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
as Dominique VerdeletTo teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband...
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Mother Love
as BatillyGilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try...
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She and Me
as Jean MontaiguYou never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing...
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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
as NarratorFilmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction...
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Mémoires d'un jeune con
as Frédéric's fatherFrédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with...
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The Melbourne Rendezvous
as NarratorRendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At...
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Que les hommes sont bêtes
as Roland DevertSylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by...
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Happy Days
as BernardFive young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette...
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Femme sans passé
as MichelCaroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an...
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
as André BarretOne evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner...
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Jean de la Lune
as Clotaire, aka ClocloMarceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves...
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Hello Paris
as Narrateur (Voice)Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s...
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The Wolf Farm
as BastienBastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the...
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Tumuc Humac
as uncreditedWhen Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he...
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The Train Rolls On
as NarratorThis half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile...
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L'Enfant de l'amour
as Maurice OrlandThis woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom...
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Un trésor de femme
as François DelarocheFrancois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who...
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Réveille-toi, chérie
as RobertJacqueline, who lives in the country, has organized her life around her husband, whom she loves,...
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Le temps des doryphores
as Commentator (voice)In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Apostrophes
as SelfApostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...
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The Octopus
as Avvocato TerrasiniAn epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything...
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