Bernard Fresson
Acting
Biography
Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931- 20 October 2002) was a French cinema actor. He starred in over 160 films. Some of his notable roles include: Javert in the 1972 mini-series version of Les Misérables, Inspector Barthelmy in John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1974), Scope in Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Gilbert in Lover Boy (1978), and Francis in Garçon! (1983), for which he received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Fresson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: May 27, 1931
Place of Birth: Reims, Marne, France
Known For
Autopsie d’un complot
Terrorists blow up the consulate of an Arab country, before a journalist uncovers a larger conspiracy. The film is based on "Scorpion, autopsie d'un complot" by Etienne Bolo and Alain Jaubert (Balland, 1978), which tells the story of a plot targeting Algeria after the nationalization of hydrocarbons during Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's seven-year term.
The Battle of Hernani
Drama chronicling the premiere of Victor Hugo's 1830 drama Hernani, and the dramatic Romantics that rallied around it.
L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
La Beauté sur la terre
Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.
Le Grand Échiquier
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A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Filmography
as Général Delestraint
as Le père de Christine
as Victor Hugo (old)
as Rougier
as Padrone Garofoli
as Padrone Garofoli
as Victor
as Benetti
as Vincent Malivert
as Saradel
as Le père Léon Lebreton
as Director of personnel
as Jean
as Jock
as Mehmet Pacha
as Victor Deneulin
as Judge Popinot
as Jacques Boulain
as Jean-Michel Ducharry
as Henry Landau
as The Godfather
as Schlossberg
as Baker
as Mirabeau
as Morin
as Mirabeau
as commissaire Maréchal
as Doctor Serge Cohen
as Mr. Leguard
as Maître Albert Gautrat
as Pyromaniac
as Ludwig Van Beethoven
as Fütterer
as Kremeur
as "President" Pervillard
as Be Schmuller
as Romain Daurignac
as Francis, head chef of the brasserie
as General Léopold Hugo
as Henri Marchand
as Self
as Gaspard de Fersac
as Paul Barton
as Claude Chenot
as Didier Daurat
as Orgon
as Béchereau
as Ballandier
as Professeur Lherbier
as Jacques Serrano
as Gilbert
as The husband
as Fabio
as Bernard Girard
as Julien, Simon's partner
as Sergio
as Scope
as François
as Georges, the father
as Delouette
as Self
as un Ministre
as Émile, professional painter
as Henri Barthélémy
as Joël Gaillard, dit « Jo »
as Grelu
as Dr. Peyrac
as Friend
as Javert
as Julien
as Marc Champenois
as Self
as Philippe Algir
as Abel Maresco
as Alfred
as Jean Eguivin, le camioneur
as l'inspecteur Barnero
as Raymond
as Matt
as Gilbert Moreau
as Inspecteur Antoine Méloutis
as Bernard Hannecart
as Nicolas
as Boniface
as Claude Ridder (segment "Claude Ridder")
as Serge
as The Hail (uncredited)
as French Resistant Raymond
as F.F.I liaison officer
as André Sarlat
as Person in charge of the finance carriage
as Policeman
as Laurent
as French Commando (uncredited)
as Serge, le photographe
as Vincenzo
as (uncredited)
as German Lover
as Un ouvrier à la cantine (uncredited)