Curiosidades

Buried in Passy Cemetery, Paris, France.

For his performance in Gervaise - A Flor do Lodo (1956), he become the first French actor to win a BAFTA. Over the years, he was followed only by Daniel Auteuil in Jean de Florette (1986), Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso (1988) and Jean Dujardin in O Artista (2011).

Father of Anne-Marie Périer and Jean-Pierre Périer-Pillu and adoptive father of Jean-Marie Périer.