Lhe actor Pierre Vernier died on Wednesday October 9, at the age of 93, his entourage announced this Saturday. With around sixty films to his credit, he often appeared alongside his friend Bébel, as in The Professional (1981) or Itinerary of a spoiled child (1988, in the role of a priest). “Be careful, I also exist without him!” » he had fun saying in 2001 about the man he considered to be “professional conscience incarnate”.
Pierre Vernier was one of those actors whose name is not necessarily known to the general public, but whose face and appearance – tall gentlemanly stature, dreamy face and brown lock on the forehead – are familiar to him. With Françoise Fabian, he was one of the last surviving members of the “Conservatoire gang”, essentially formed by students of the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris in the early 1950s.
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Besides Belmondo, its core included Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bruno Cremer and Annie Girardot. Born Pierre Louis Rayer in Saint-Jean-d’Angély in Charente and died in Vic-Fezensac, in Gers, Pierre Vernier had worked with great film directors, including Henri Verneuil and Joseph Losey (in Mr. Klein, with Alain Delon in 1976).
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