Pierre Vernier died this Wednesday October 9 at the age of 93. This French actor was particularly known for having been part of the famous Bande du Conservatoire, composed of Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort and Bruno Cremer. Actors he will meet throughout his life. During his career, which began in the 1950s, he made numerous appearances in the cinema. Television also offered him many roles, starting with that of Swiss roll in 1964.
Pierre Vernier was a great supporting role in French cinema
Pierre Vernier was born in 1931 in Saint-Jean-d’Angély in Charente-Maritime. He was part of the 1954 class of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, notably with Jean-Paul Belmondo. “An intimate bond was built. I was hooked right away with this band. Yet we were very different from each other! confided the actor in the work The Bébel Gangby Philippe Durant. The actor made his film debut in the 1950s with Juliette or the Key to Dreams by Marcel Carné (1950), before taking on roles in Sunday Buddies (1956), The Awful (1958), or Prairie Street with Jean Gabin (1959). In 1960, Claude Chabrol gave him roles in The Godelureauxthen in Ophelia (1961) et Landru (1962). During his career, he played in around sixty films for the cinema and shot for the greatest directors. It was thus directed by Henri Verneuil in Weekend at Zuydcoote (1964) or I comme Icare (1979). He also appeared under the lens of René Clément (Is Paris burning?), Alain Resnais (Stavisky)Joseph Losey (Monsieur Klein), Georges Lautner (The Guignolo, The Professional), Claude Lelouch (Itinerary of a spoiled child, The Beautiful Story) and François Ozon (Under the sand). He also played in several of Valérie Lemercier’s films such as Palace Royal or Marie-Francine (2017), his last appearance on screen. Close to Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierre Vernier often played alongside him in cinema and theater, as in Kean, Itinerary of a Spoiled Kid or Cyrano de Bergerac.
Pierre Vernier played in over a hundred TV films during his career
During his career, Pierre Vernier finally multiplied his roles on television. It is the small screen which reveals it to the eyes of the general public in Swiss rolla series adapted from the novel by Ponson du Terrail, in 1964. It is also in the credits of Michel Strogoff, a fiction broadcast in 1975. In 1977, he appeared in several episodes of the English series Bowler hat and leather boots. In the 2000s, he made numerous appearances in series such as Julie Lescaut, The judge is a woman, Don’t do this, don’t do that…. or TV films, The Elder of Ferchaux (2001), The Thibaults (2003), The Pasquier Clan (2007) or Farewell de Gaulle, farewell (2008) where General De Gaulle was camped. In all, he starred in around a hundred TV films.
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