“He made a mark with his appearance”, Rachida Dati pays tribute to the actor who is leaving us at 93

It is sad news that theAFPthe world of cinema loses one of its most popular actors although we did not always know his name well. On the other hand, his face was known to almost everyone, and in particular to the oldest among us although he continued to shooting for cinema until 2017. Among the last films in which he made appearances: Marie-Francine of Valérie Lemercier. Pierre Vernier died on Wednesday October 9 has 93 ans. He had also collaborated with the director, actress and comedian on several occasions throughout his career. It was also seen in 100% cashmere in 2013 and, further back in time, in Palace royal!. It was 2005, and he played Mr. Ambassador.

Pierre Vernier had gained notoriety by playing supporting roles, mainly, and playing alongside other very popular actors who were an integral part of what was called the Conservatory Band or more familiarly the Band at Bébel. We cannot cite all the actors who gravitated around Jean-Paul Belmondoas for example for the most famous Annie Girardot, Françoise Fabian, Guy Bedos, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Claude Rich, Jean Rochefort or even Philippe Noiret, some of whom had already left.

Member of the Bébel Band

Pierre Vernier was born on May 25, 1931 in the department of Charente-Maritimes and died in his house in Gers. He had followed the course of National Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Artin the class of 1954, with Jean-Paul Belmondo. He shot everything and everything in a sixty filmss on behalf of great directors including Claude Lelouch, François Ozon, Marcel Carne, Marc Allégret or even Georges Lautner et Claude Chabrol. For example, we can cite for the feature films which have imbued the collective memory Always talk… I’m interested in you! d’Édouard Molinaro (1979), We’re not angels…neither are they by Michel Lang (1980), What are we waiting for to be happy! by Coline Serreau (1982) or even Les Miserables de Claude Lelouch (1995).

Pierre Vernier also distinguished himself on television by participating in the filming of several soap operas from the beginning of the 1960s until 2014. He was acclaimed in episodes of the series Jospéhine, guardian angel, The judge is a woman or even Julie LescautIn Father Goriot et Love as a legacy by Douglas Hickox and Kevin Connor in 1984, internationally. Do Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters after being a Chevalier late in life, in 2016, he received the prize for Best Male Performance at the Luchon Festival of Television Creations for Farewell de Gaulle, farewell… by Laurent Herbiet in 2009, and the Golden Nymph for best actor at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival the following year, for the same film.

Seen on the stage in the theater, it was truly in this field that he had his first weapons in 1950. But it was undoubtedly with Jean-Paul Belmondo that he saw his career take off. He explained in the work The Bébel Gang by Philippe Durant, published five years ago, that a “intimate bond” was built with him. “I got hooked with this group straight away. We were very different from each other though!”he then insisted. For La Dépêche du Midihe had also shared a part of his intimacy with Bébel, who passed away three years ago now. “I remember going on stage with Jean-Paul Belmondo who, after a cruel family bereavement, continued the show. My commitment stems from my profession as an actor”he declared in 2006, he who had become departmental president of the Association of Visitors of Patients to Hospitals in Gers. However, he recalled very well in 2001, too: “Attention, I also exist without him. I worked with Chabrol, Verneuil, Lautner, Lelouch…“ (The Parisian).

Tributes to Pierre Vernier should follow one another and, to begin with, it is the Minister of Culture Rachida Data which is expressed in the first place. “A member of the Conservatoire Band alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Pierre Marielle, Pierre Vernier left his mark on generations of spectators with his appearance and his familiar voice. He left us on October 9, at the age of 93 years old, I send all my condolences to his family and loved ones.she posted on X (formerly Twitter).