Seen across enough titles, François Périer turns into a familiar face with a body of work built one job at a time. Careers that pass the 88-year mark are a small club. 'Le Samouraï' sits at the front of the filmography, where he plays Superintendant. 'Nights of Cabiria' is the other credit most often cited. Casting directors have gone to him for drama more than for anything else. He won the BAFTA for 'Gervaise'.
François Périer
82 years (Nov 10, 1919 – Jun 28, 2002)Paris, France
96 Movies4 Series
Seen across enough titles, François Périer turns into a familiar face with a body of work built one job at a time. Careers that pass the 88-year mark are a small club. 'Le Samouraï' sits at the front of the filmography, where he plays Superintendant. 'Nights of Cabiria' is the other credit most often cited. Casting directors have gone to him for drama more than for anything else. He won the BAFTA for 'Gervaise'.
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.