Bernard Fresson

Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931- 20 October 2002) was a French cinema actor. He starred in over 160 films. Some of his notable roles include: Javert in the 1972 mini-series version of Les Misérables, Inspector Barthelmy in John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1974), Scope in Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Gilbert in Lover Boy (1978), and Francis in Garçon! (1983), for which he received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Fresson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Reims, Marne, France, 1931-05-27

Died: 2002-10-20

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Sunday Buddies	Un ouvrier à la cantine (uncredited)	61
2	1959	Hiroshima Mon Amour	German Lover	77
3	1961	Sahara on Fire	(uncredited)	0
4	1961	Girl in the Window	Vincenzo	62
5	1961	Please, Not Now!	Serge, le photographe	48
6	1961	The Flamboyant Sex	Pierre	50
7	1962	The Longest Day	French Commando (uncredited)	76
8	1965	Skies Above	Laurent	56
9	1965	How Not to Rob a Department Store	Policeman	10
10	1965	The Big Swag	Person in charge of the finance carriage	64
11	1966	The War Is Over	Sarlat	63
12	1966	Is Paris Burning?	F.F.I liaison officer	72
13	1966	Triple Cross	French Resistant Raymond	60
14	1967	Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday	Jean	82
15	1967	Belle de Jour	Le grele (uncredited)	74
16	1967	My Love, My Love	Serge	62
17	1967	Far from Vietnam	Claude Ridder (segment "Claude Ridder")	70
18	1968	Zita	Boniface	52
19	1968	Spray of the Days	Nicolas	47
20	1968	Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime	Bernard Hannecart	66
21	1968	Farewell, Friend	Inspecteur Antoine Méloutis	63
22	1968	Woman in Chains	Gilbert Moreau	70
23	1969	Z	Matt, friend of the Deputy, lawyer	78
24	1969	The American	Raymond	54
25	1970	The Cop	l'inspecteur Barnero	64
26	1970	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Jean Eguivin, le camioneur	51
27	1971	Macédoine	Roger Vincent	0
28	1971	Portrait of Marianne	Alfred	0
29	1971	Max and the Junkmen	Abel Maresco	71
30	1971	Too Small My Friend	Philippe Algir	60
31	1972	Hearth Fires	Marc Champenois	59
32	1972	3000 Million Without an Elevator	Julien	51
33	1973	Oh, Sun	Friend	67
34	1973	Where There's Smoke	Dr. Peyrac	58
35	1974	Ursule and Grelu	Grelu	50
36	1975	French Connection II	Henri Barthélémy	68
37	1975	Le Futur aux trousses	Sermeuze, the Boss	10
38	1975	Cookies	Émile, professional painter	63
39	1975	Rain over Santiago	un Ministre	63
40	1976	The Undertaker Parlor Computer	Delouette	36
41	1976	Don't Bite, We Love You	Georges, le père	40
42	1976	The Call of the Wild	François	63
43	1976	The Tenant	Scope	76
44	1976	Marie, the Doll	Sergio	60
45	1976	Mado	Julien, Simon's partner	65
46	1977	To Each His Hell	Bernard Girard	60
47	1977	The Passengers	Fabio	61
48	1977	Le Dernier Baiser	The husband	52
49	1978	Lover Boy	Gilbert	49
50	1978	Autopsie d’un complot	Jacques Serrano	100
51	1978	Little Girl in Blue Velvet	Professeur Lherbier	45
52	1979	We Forget Everything!	Ballandier	0
53	1980	Légitime défense	Béchereau	0
54	1980	Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur	Orgon	0
55	1981	Le Guépiot	Claude Chenot	0
56	1981	Madame Claude 2	Paul Barton	37
57	1982	Spy, Stand Up	Henri Marchand	73
58	1983	Waiter!	Francis, head chef of the brasserie	55
59	1984	Clash	Be Schmuller	36
60	1984	Rive droite, rive gauche	"President" Pervillard	57
61	1984	New Year's Eve At Bob's	Kremeur	62
62	1985	Le maître-chanteur		0
63	1985	Zielscheiben	Fütterer	0
64	1985	La Dixième de Beethoven	Ludwig Van Beethoven	0
65	1985	L'Amour ou presque	Pyromaniac	0
66	1986	L'Affaire Marie Besnard	Maître Albert Gautrat	0
67	1986	La Petite Roque		0
68	1987	Sweet Lies	Mr. Leguard	48
69	1988	No Harm Intended	Doctor Serge Cohen	57
70	1988	Bonjour l'angoisse	commissaire Maréchal	56
71	1989	Street of No Return	Morin	55
72	1989	L'Été de la Révolution		0
73	1990	Sons	Baker	80
74	1990	Équipe de nuit	Schlossberg	0
75	1990	Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair	Pierre	55
76	1990	No Time for Justice	The Godfather	0
77	1990	Il prato delle volpi	Dr. Paroni	60
78	1991	Money	Henry Landau	62
79	1991	Quiproquos !	Jean-Michel Ducharry	0
80	1991	Dingo	Jacques Boulain	54
81	1993	L'Interdiction	Judge Popinot	0
82	1993	Germinal	Victor Deneulin	67
83	1994	La Règle de l'homme	Mehmet Pacha	10
84	1995	Ils n'ont pas vingt ans	Jock	50
85	1995	Shadow of a Kiss	Jean	0
86	1996	My Man	Director of personnel	57
87	1998	Manège	Saradel	60
88	1998	Place Vendôme	Vincent Malivert	63
89	2000	Six-Pack	Benetti	58
90	2000	Taking Wing	Victor	40
91	2000	Without Family	Padrone Garofoli	68
92	2001	La Beauté sur la terre	Rougier	80
93	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception	Joffre	53
94	2002	The Battle of Hernani	Victor Hugo (old)	100
95	2002	The Adversary	Le père de Christine	66
96	2003	Jean Moulin, une affaire française	Général Delestraint	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
2	1972	Les Misérables	Javert	50
3	1975	Jo Gaillard	Joël Gaillard, dit « Jo »	0
4	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
5	1980	L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel	Didier Daurat	90
6	1981	L'Ennemi de la mort	Gaspard de Fersac	0
7	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
8	1983	Los Desastres de la Guerra	General Leopoldo Hugo	0
9	1983	Thérèse Humbert	Romain Daurignac	0
10	1989	L'Été de la Révolution	Mirabeau	0
11	1997	Between Land and Sea	Le père Léon Lebreton	50
12	2000	Sans famille	Padrone Garofoli	0