This Sunday, January 2, 2022, France 2 is broadcasting Les tontons flingueurs at 9:05 p.m. The opportunity to look back on the life of Bernard Blier and in particular on his first wife, Gisèle Brunet.
Bernard Blier, the interpreter of Raoul Volfoni in The gunslingers died on March 29, 1989 at the age of 73, following a Prostate cancer. The French actor born in Buenos Aires, Argentina starred in nearly 200 films and dated two women in his life : Gisèle Brunet and Annette Martin, who died in April 2020 at the age of 84, as a result of coronavirus.
Before seeing Annette Martin, Bernard Blier shared his life for twenty years with Gisèle Brunet (died in 1991). The couple got married in 1938 before welcoming their son, Bertrand a year later, then their daughter Brigitte in 1945. In 1961, their romance was finally turned upside down during the filming of Seventh Juror. Indeed, the French actor will meet Annette Martin, the daughter of the owners of the hotel where he settled and will fall madly in love.
Gisèle Brunet experienced her separation from Bernard Blier very badly.
After having attended Annette Martin in secret for several months, Bernard Blier decided to divorce from Gisèle Brunet. The latter will not accept this decision and the actor will finally decide to leave the marital home to marry and settle down with Annette Martin, twenty years his junior.
In an interview with First in 2019, Bertrand Blier returned to the relationship between his parents. He had explained: “I did not have a very harmonious childhood. I was lucky to be the son of Bernard Blier, an extraordinary father, but my mother shit. And me, I shit for her“. The director of Valseuses then continued: “I acted as a buffer between these two monsters. It’s not easy for any child“. A complicated relationship that had repercussions significant on their two children.
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Bernard Blier Cesar of honor during the Cesar in 1989, a few weeks before his death.
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Bernard Blier and Michele Morgan
Bernard Blier and Michele Morgan at the Molières party in 1988.
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Annette Blier (Martin) and Bernard Blier
Annette Blier (Martin) and Bernard Blier during an evening at the Parisian bouffes theater in 1986.
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Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier in “Le cave se rebiffe” by Gilles Grangier.
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Bernard Blier and Louis de Funes
Bernard Blier and Louis de Funes in “Le grand restaurant” by Jacques Besnard.
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Bernard Blier in “One hundred thousand dollars in the sun” by Henri Verneuil.
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Bernard Blier in “She does not drink, she does not smoke, she does not flirt but … she talks” by Michel Audiard.
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Bernard Blier in “Les tontons flingueurs” by Georges Lautner.
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Bernard Blier in “Les tontons flingueurs” by Georges Lautner.
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Bernard Blier, Antoine Balpetre, Jean Gabin and Franck Villard
Bernard Blier, Antoine Balpetre, Jean Gabin and Franck Villard in “Le cave se rebiffe” by Gilles Grangier.