Cast & creator
François Périer
Best known for Sacrée soirée, Champs-Elysées, Apostrophes
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.
Also known as: François Pillu, Francois Perier, François Perier, Франсуа Перье
120
film credits
18
television credits
138
1938–2026 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (138)
Showing 138 of 138 credits
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Apostrophes
Self
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972Le Grand Échiquier
Self (voice)
1972Le Grand Échiquier
Self - Main guest
1972
Midi trente
Self
1972Samedi soir
Self
1971
The Octopus
Avvocato Terrasini
1984
Le Cercle Rouge
Santi
1970
Le Samouraï
Superintendant
1967
Mazarin
Mazarin
1978
Aujourd'hui la vie
Self
1982
Nights of Cabiria
Oscar D'Onofrio
1957
Orpheus
Heurtebise
1950
La Joie de vivre
Self - Guest
1952La Joie de vivre
Self
1952
Z
Public Prosecutor
1969
Testament of Orpheus
Heurtebise(non crédité)
1960
La nuit des molières
Self
1987
Max and the Junkmen
Commissioner Rosinsky
1971
The Assassination
René Rouannat
1972
Madame Bovary
Narrateur
1991
Stavisky...
Albert Borelli
1974
Fellini dice...
Self
2006
Le Gorille
Berthomieu
1990
Le Tartuffe
Orgon
1984
Gervaise
Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
1956
It Happened in the Park
Greek Professor (segment "Pi-greco")
1953
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot / Narrator
1984
Just Before Nightfall
François Tellier
1971
Give Her the Moon
Jean-Jules de Lépine
1970
Police Python 357
Commissaire Ganay
1976
The Elegant Criminal
Lacenaire's father
1990
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
The Spiral
Narrator (voice)
1976
Weekend at Dunkirk
Alexandre
1964
Shock Troops
Moujon
1967
Hôtel du Nord
Adrien
1938
The Police War
Colombani, Chief of police
1979
The Creation of the World
1958
A Lover's Return
François
1946
Love and the Frenchwoman
Michel, le mari (segment "Le Divorce")
1960
The Secrets of the Bed
Alfred Germain-Latour (segment "Lit de la Pompadour, Le")
1954
The Dreadful
Commentaire
1959
Bobosse
Tony Varlet / Bobosse / The six jurors / President of the court / Attorney general / Lawyer / Guard
1959
Sara
Restif de la Bretonne
1975
The Anatomy of Love
L'innamorato
1954
A Grin Without a Cat
Narrator (voice)
1977
State Reasons
Prof. Marrot
1978
The Telephone Bar
Commissaire Claude Joinville
1980
La Pagaille
Gabriel
1991
The Organizer
Maestro Di Meo
1963
Mother Love
Batilly
1938
The Melbourne Rendezvous
Narrator
1957
The Century Is Fifty
Self
1950
The Bamboo Stroke
Léon Brissac
1963
Silence Is Golden
Jacques Francet
1947
Five Day Lover
Georges
1961
Tumuc Humac
The judge
1971
The Child of the High Seas
Dit par
1968
Thérèse Humbert
Moi Dumort
1983
Keep Your Right Up
Man
1987
The Train Rolls On
Narrator
1971
The End of the Day
Journalist
1939
People in Luck
Jérôme Boisselier (segment "Le Vison")
1963
Sweet and Sour
Legrand (le nounou 1)
1963
Anyone Can Kill Me
Paul, le directeur de la prison
1957
A Girl Knew
'Coco' Levaison
1948L'américain se détend
Narration
1958
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
Mentir, jouer et devenir François Périer
Self
2026
Baxter, Vera Baxter
Jean Baxter (voice)
1977
The Fighter
Gino Ruggieri
1983
Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Dominique Verdelet
1944
Jean de la Lune
Clotaire, aka Cloclo
1949
Hello Paris
Narrateur (Voice)
1953
Au P'tit Zouave
M. Denis
1950
Hitch-Hike
l'homme de 40 ans
1962
Mémoires d'un jeune con
Frédéric's father
1996
The Loves of Colette
François Lecoc
1948
The Temptation of Barbizon
Ben Atkinson / The Devil
1946
Under the Paris Sky
Reciter (voice)
1951
Voyage à Rome
The father
1992
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Charles Merlin
1950
Sylvia and the Ghost
Ramure, thief
1946
Doctor Francoise Gailland
Gérard Gailland
1976
Love Letters
François de Portal
1942
I'll Get Back to Kandara
André Barret
1956
Les Deux mémoires
Self
1974
The Amorous Corporal
La Bigorne
1958
Marriage Episodes
M. Trielle
1954
Le temps des doryphores
Commentator (voice)
1967
Paris Loves
Maurice Lasnier
1961
Que les hommes sont bêtes
Roland Devert
1957
Return to Life
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
1949
My Seal and Them
François Verville
1951
L'Enfant de l'amour
Maurice Orland
1944Fellini nel cestino
Self
1983
La Nuit bulgare
Lafond
1972
The Fatted Calf
Gaston Vachon
1939
Réveille-toi, chérie
Robert
1961
Too Many Lovers
Robert
1957
Intermediate Landing in Paris
Pierre Brissac
1955
Stars Never Die
Narrator (voice)
1957
Cadet Rousselle
Cadet Rousselle
1954
Un trésor de femme
François Delaroche
1953
Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
Jacque Alavarez
1985De force avec d'autres
self (archive footage)
1993
La Légende du siècle
Self
1972
Love, Madame
François Célerier
1952
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
Narrator
1984
The Magistrate
Luigi Bonelli
1959
The Wolf Farm
Bastien
1943The White Truck
François Ledru
1943
Maxime
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1958
Nightclub Hostess
Jean
1939
The Duel
François
1941
Lost Souvenirs
Jean-Pierre Delagrange (episode "Une couronne mortuaire")
1950
We Want the Colonels
On. Gigino Di Cori
1973
Happy Go Lucky
Denis Carignol
1946
Demoniac
Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
1957
The Visitor
Adolfo Di Palma
1963
Mandrin
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1962
The Fugitives
François, employé de commerce
1955
Jeunes mariés
Jacques Delaroche
1953
Love Marriage
Pierre
1942
Antoine and Sebastian
Antoine
1974
Sorceror
Michel Riverain
1950
Lovers on a Tightrope
Daniel
1960
Captain Slipper
Emmanuel Bonnavent, deputy head of the bank
1953
Premier bal
Ernest Vilar
1941Les Gauloises bleues
Le juge
1969
Femme sans passé
Michel
1948
She and Me
Jean Montaigu
1952
Happy Days
Bernard
1941