| Pierre Vernier | |
| Birth Name: | Pierre Louis Rayer |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Actor |
Pierre Louis Rayer (pronounced as /fr/; 25 May 1931 – 9 October 2024), known by his stage name Pierre Vernier, was a French actor.[1]
Pierre Louis Rayer was born on 25 May 1931.[2] [3] He repeatedly worked with Claude Chabrol, Henri Verneuil and Claude Lelouch, Georges Lautner and Jacques Deray.
In 2009, he portrayed Charles de Gaulle in a television film.[4] [5]
Vernier died on 9 October 2024, at the age of 93.[6]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Juliette, or Key of Dreams | a young man selling keepsakes | Marcel Carné | Uncredited | |
| 1958 | Les Copains du dimanche | Henri Aisner | |||
| 1959 | Les affreux | Marc Allégret | |||
| Rue des prairies | Un inspecteur | Denys de La Patellière | |||
| Eyes of Love | Denys de La Patellière | ||||
| 1961 | Wise Guys | Bernard 2 | Claude Chabrol | ||
| 1962 | Bluebeard | a magistrate | Claude Chabrol | ||
| Ophélia | Paul | Claude Chabrol | |||
| 1964 | La Difficulté d'être infidèle | Jean | Bernard Toublanc-Michel | ||
| Weekend at Dunkirk | the undertaker | Henri Verneuil | |||
| 1965 | La grosse caisse | L'agent de la sécurité | Alex Joffé | ||
| Un mari à un prix fixe | the beekeeper | Claude de Givray | |||
| Pas de caviar pour tante Olga | Hector Dumont-Fréville | Jean Becker | |||
| Un milliard dans un billard | Roger | Nicolas Gessner | |||
| 1966 | The Gardener of Argenteuil | Noël | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | ||
| 1968 | Darling Caroline | Bonaparte | Denys de La Patellière | ||
| 1971 | Spaniards in Paris | Monsieur Lemonier | Roberto Bodegas | ||
| Rendezvous at Bray | Monsieur Hausmann | André Delvaux | |||
| 1973 | Das Mädchen von Hongkong | Richmond | Jürgen Roland | ||
| Manalive | Innocence Smit | Frédéric Geilfus and Denise Geilfus | |||
| 1974 | Piaf | Raymond Asso | Guy Casaril | ||
| Stavisky | Pierre Grammont | Alain Resnais | |||
| 1976 | Monsieur Klein | Policeman | Joseph Losey | ||
| 1978 | Le sucre | Latoussaint | Jacques Rouffio | ||
| 1979 | The Dogs | Gauthier | Alain Jessua | ||
| Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! | René Martin, l'homme à la cravate rouge | Édouard Molinaro | |||
| I as in Icarus | Charly Feruda | Henri Verneuil | |||
| 1980 | Le Guignolo | Helmut von Nassau | Georges Lautner | ||
| Tendres Cousines | Julien's Father | David Hamilton | |||
| La Provinciale | the editor | Claude Goretta | |||
| 1981 | On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus | Grégoire Dermoncourt | Michel Lang | ||
| Le Professionnel | Salvatore Volfoni | Georges Lautner | Uncredited | ||
| 1982 | Josepha | Jenner | Christopher Frank | ||
| Salut... j'arrive! | Michel, le mari de Carole | Gérard Poteau | |||
| Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! | Rudolph Valentino | Coline Serreau | |||
| 1983 | L'ami de Vincent | Gérard | Pierre Granier-Deferre | ||
| Le Marginal | Inspector Rojinski | Jacques Deray | |||
| 1985 | Le transfuge | Philippe Lefebvre | |||
| The Frog Prince | Monsieur Bourneuf | Brian Gilbert | |||
| 1986 | Cours privé | Philippe | Pierre Granier-Deferre | ||
| 1987 | Le Solitaire | Maurin | Jacques Deray | ||
| 1988 | Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator | André Arnaud | Édouard Molinaro | ||
| Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté | the chaplain | Claude Lelouch | |||
| 1989 | Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed | Blache | Coline Serreau | ||
| 1992 | Betty | Le médecin | Claude Chabrol | ||
| La Belle Histoire | the schoolmaster | Claude Lelouch | |||
| Stranger in the House | Le president du tribunal | Georges Lautner | |||
| 1995 | Les Misérables | the prison director | Claude Lelouch | ||
| 1998 | Le clone | Armand | Fabio Conversi | ||
| 1999 | Joséphine, ange gardien | Jean-Louis Pirou | Henri Helman | Episode: "Une santé d'enfer" | |
| 2000 | Sous le sable | Gérard | François Ozon | ||
| 2004 | La confiance règne | Jacques Térion | Étienne Chatiliez | ||
| 2005 | L'antidote | Le senior board member | Vincent de Brus | ||
| Palais royal! | The ambassador | Valérie Lemercier | |||
| 2006 | Comedy of Power | Président Martino | Claude Chabrol | ||
| Le Grand Meaulnes | Le recteur | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | |||
| 2012 | The Chef | Paul Matter | Daniel Cohen | ||
| La fleur de l'âge | Maurice Renouard | Nick Quinn | |||
| 2013 | 100% cachemire | Monsieur de la Chaise | Valérie Lemercier | ||
| 2017 | Marie-Francine | Client Vaporette Oh! | Valérie Lemercier |