Pierre Vernier (actor)
Pierre Vernier, Pierre Rayer actually, ( born May 25, 1931 in Saint -Jean- d'Angély in the Charente -Maritime) is a French actor.
Life and work
Internationally known in the film he was in supporting roles under the director Claude Chabrol and next to actor Jean -Paul Belmondo. Last Vernier worked for Chabrol in the movie Secret State affairs with, inter alia, Isabelle Huppert. He has been widely used especially in the 1960s and 1970s as a performer type, including several times in crime films alongside Jean Gabin. He usually played cops and politicians, officers, nobles, doctors, and other figures. Among his most famous films with Belmondo belonged in the 1980s The Puppeteer and The Professional, directed by Georges Lautner. Belmondo and Vernier are also private friends and appear together on TV shows.
Awareness Vernier gained as a performer profiled characters on television, where he participated also in British and German productions. He took occasional large TV supporting roles and has developed since the late 1980s to a character actor. He starred in television movies and mini-series as well as series guest actors and actresses in television series. His first major supporting role he played 77 years: In the French TV game Adieu De Gaulle adieu ( Director: Laurent Herbiet ) he embodied the former French President Charles de Gaulle in his last years. For his performance he was awarded at the International Festival du film de télévision de Luchon Luchon with the Best Actor Award.
A trained theater actor is seen regularly since the 1950s in France on the stage, including in pieces by Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Peter Weiss and Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt.