Christian Barbier

Christian Barbier

Christian Barbier (28 June 1924 – 3 November 2009) was a French film and television actor.

Barbier was born at Courcelles, Belgium. During his career (1964 to 1997), he specialized in drama rather than comedy. In film, he held several leading roles but is especially distinguished in auxiliary roles depicting more limited characters. He is especially remembered for his first-class performance in Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969. Appearing in a number of soaps and TV shows of the late 1960s to early 1980s, Barbier gained a certain notoriety thanks to the character of Joseph Durtol, bounded and proud hero of The Man of Picardy, the legendary French television series. He died in Manosque (Alpes de Haute-Provence), aged 85.

Filmography

Films

• 1956: Alerte au deuxième bureau (Jean Stelli): Verdier
• 1964: Lucky Jo (Michel Deville) : Commissioner
• 1964: Weekend at Dunkirk (Henri Verneuil): Paul
• 1965: La Vie de château (Jean-Paul Rappeneau): Colonel
• 1966: La Loi du survivant (Law of Survival) (José Giovanni)
• 1966: L'Homme qui osa (The Man Who Dared) (Jean Delire)
• 1966: Marie Soleil (Antoine Bourseiller)
• 1967: Lamiel (Jean Aurel): Vidocq
• 1967: Maigret à Pigalle (Mario Landi): Torrence
• 1967: L'Homme qui valait des milliards (The Man Who Was Worth Millions) (Michel Boisrond): Carl
• 1968: L'Homme à la Buick (The Man in the Buick) (Gilles Grangier): Maxime
• 1968: Le Franciscain de Bourges (Claude Autant-Lara): Father Barret
• 1968: Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet): Lorentz
• 1969: Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville): Guillaume Vermersch (“Le Bison”)
• 1969: La désirade (Alain Cuniot): Motorist
• 1969: Target: Harry (Roger Corman): Bulley Boulez
• 1969: L'Hiver (Winter ) (Marcel Hanoun): Producer
• 1970: Les Jambes en l'air (Jean Dewever): Marcel
• 1970: The Horse (Pierre Granier-Deferre): Léon
• 1970: Peace in the Fields (Jacques Boigelot): Stanne Vanasche
• 1972: Les Tueurs fous (The Lonely Killers) (Boris Szulzinger): Worker
• 1973: La chambre rouge (Jean-Pierre Berckmans): René Noris
• 1973: Les Granges brûlées (The Burned Barns) (Jean Chapot): Gendarme
• 1973: L'Affaire Crazy Capo (Patrick Jamain)
• 1973: Le Gang des otages (The Hostage Gang) (Édouard Molinaro): Brigadier
• 1975: Only the Wind Knows the Answer
• 1977: L'Homme pressé (Man in a Hurry) (Édouard Molinaro): Cardiologist
• 1977: Jambon d'Ardenne (Benoît Lamy): Entrepreneur
• 1980: Trois hommes à abattre (Three Wanted Men) (Jacques Deray): Liethard
• 1982: Hiver 60 (Thierry Michel): André's father
• 1983: Le Voyage d'hiver (Marian Handwerker): Corbin
• 1984: Julien Fontanes, magistrat (Daniel Moosmann) : Jeff Stenay
• 1985: Brigade des mœurs (Max Pécas): Robert Capes
• 1986: Suivez mon regard (Jean Curtelin)
• 1988: La Maison assassinée (Georges Lautner): Brigue
• 1991: L'Année de l'éveil (Gérard Corbiau): Colonel
• 1993: Mayrig (Henri Verneuil): Father Pignon
• 1994: Éternelles (Erick Zonca): Father
• 1997: The Bet (Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan)
• 2001: Une belle journée (A Beautiful Day) (Frédérique Dolphyn): Jean
• 2002: Les Sabots de Vénus