Maurice Barrier
Also Known As: Maurice Jean-Étienne Barrier
Biography: Maurice Barrier (8 June 1932 – 12 April 2020) was a French actor and singer. Barrier was the son of a cabinetmaker, and had his first job working in his father's workshop. While in Rennes at age 28, he met several resident actors at the Théâtre National de Bretagne and made his stage debut in Caligula, written by Albert Camus. His first major role on television was in the film The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. His other major films included The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Black and White in Color, Coup de tête, and Flic Story. He played alongside several actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, and Gérard Jugnot. Barrier was married to the actress Hélène Manesse. The pair resided in Montréal, France from 1962 until Maurice's death on 12 April 2020 in Montbard at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Source: Article "Maurice Barrier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malicorne-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, France
Birthday: June 08, 1932
Deathday: April 12, 2020
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Gender: Male
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Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Raphael or the Debauched One
Overview: In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Overview: Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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The Fugitives
Overview: Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-17
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And the Ship Sails On
Overview: In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Overview: A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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The Specialists
Overview: While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-13
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Flic Story
Overview: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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Black and White in Color
Overview: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Life and Nothing But
Overview: In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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Le grand fossé
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Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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The Gypsy
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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The Gang
Overview: In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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One Woman or Two
Overview: An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Un jour avant l'aube
Overview: At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Hail the Artist
Overview: Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Scout Toujours
Overview: France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-27
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La Nuit de Santa-Klaus
Overview: Cruel Santa Claus, when you come down from the sky with guns by the thousands, I beg you to spare me. If Santa Claus really existed, if he lived in some hidden place in the city in the company of those who still believe in him, and if he was seeking revenge, waiting for his revenge on those who distorted his name and image for money purposes!
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-22
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Overview: Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Overview: Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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The Outsider
Overview: Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Overview: This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Overview: Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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The Way Out
Overview: Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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La victoire des vaincus
Overview: In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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The ComDads
Overview: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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Louis, the Child King
Overview: January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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Two Men in Town
Overview: A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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He Died with His Eyes Open
Overview: Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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Marié(s) ou presque
Overview: Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests that night give their opinion of the marriage, its setbacks and its amenities.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Charlie Dingo
Overview: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance money. Antihero Charlie and the villainous police inspector head towards an inevitable confrontation, while Georgia is caught in the middle.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Rouget le braconnier
Overview: The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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Goupi-Mains rouges
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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The Happiest Place on Earth
Overview: The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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