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 Frances most versatile and soughtafter character actors performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas He often worked in Italian films particularly in the last decade of his life He was born in Buenos Aires Argentina where his father a researcher at the Institut Pasteur was posted at the time He is the father of director Bertrand Blier and appeared in a number of his sons films most notably Buffet froid 1979 He was awarded an Honorary César the French Oscar in 1989 a month before he died Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Blier licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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