Hervé Pierre

Hervé Pierre

Born: April 22, 1955
in Fins, Doubs, France
Hervé Pierre (born 22 April 1955) is a French actor and theatre director. He joined the Comédie-Française in 2007 and became a member in 2011.

On 14 June 2009, Pierre was awarded the title of Best French Actor by critics. In 2011, he was promoted chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2011, Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Hervé Pierre began to play in theatre troupes first in Les Fins, where he was born, then in the Pontarlier lycee. He followed, from 1974 to 1977, the teachings of Claude Petitpierre, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean Dautremay, and Jean-Louis Hourdin at the National Theatre of Strasbourg.

In 1977, he formed the Théâtre du Troc with his TNS promotion company, leading it until 1981.

Source: Article "Hervé Pierre (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Vincent Must Die
Title: Vincent Must Die
Released: November 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.
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Title: Standing Up
Character: Pierre-Emmanuel
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: TV
From odd jobs to the hunt for viral fame, making a career in stand-up comedy isn't easy, but four friends risk everything to make the world laugh.
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Maigret
Title: Maigret
Character: Docteur Paul
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
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Promises
Title: Promises
Character: Pierre Messac
Released: January 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by inequality, unemployment and slumlords. However, when Clémence is approached to become Minister, her ambition arises, questioning her devotion and commitment to her citizens. Will her political integrity and election promises survive her newly found ambition?
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Benedetta
Title: Benedetta
Character: Paolo Ricordati
Released: July 9, 2021
Type: Movie
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
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Title: Lupin
Character: Hubert Pellegrini
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
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Title: Lupin
Character: Mr. Hubert Pellegrini
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
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La vie de Galilée
Title: La vie de Galilée
Character: Galilée
Released: November 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Accompanied by a child, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament with a telescope. Ten years ago, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned in Rome for having supported the idea of an infinite and centerless universe, based on the work of Copernicus. By dint of observations and calculations, Galileo seeks proofs for his hypothesis of a cosmic system where the Earth is "an ordinary celestial body, one among thousands". From Padua to Venice, the mathematician shakes certainties by confronting the power of a Church which wishes to maintain its absolute power in the "crystal spheres" where Ptolemy has hitherto locked up the world.
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An Officer and a Spy
Title: An Officer and a Spy
Character: General Gonse
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Title: The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 2, 2019
Type: Movie
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Title: Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: June 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
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Finding Momo
Title: Finding Momo
Character: Jean-François, le médecin
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: Movie
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man has returned home to his parents in order to introduce his wife.
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The Consolation
Title: The Consolation
Character: The Shrink
Released: November 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past that she would have concealed and proposes to browse together a photo-album of her childhood. The cliché of a teenager with a sad look will wake up buried memories ...
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Just to Be Sure
Title: Just to Be Sure
Character: L'administrateur des affaires maritimes
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
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The Sense of Wonder
Title: The Sense of Wonder
Character: Jules
Released: December 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: Monsieur Lanlaire
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured with a coach driver.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Segré
Released: February 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Temptation and danger run high in this romantic drama. In a post-World War I world, handsome veteran Antoine is ready to live life with his beautiful wife, Marianne. But his happiness is threatened when Marianne's alluring sister, Evelyn, pulls him into a seductive web of deceit and infidelity.
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Meurtre en trois actes
Title: Meurtre en trois actes
Character: Greg Brunet
Released: June 29, 2013
Type: Movie
With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous institution, where power plays and rivalries are the norm.
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Haute Cuisine
Title: Haute Cuisine
Character: Perrières
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
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Superstar
Title: Superstar
Character: Docteur Barreinbhom
Released: August 29, 2012
Type: Movie
An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: The family doctor
Released: August 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious scientist who holds the secret to eternal youth...
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La danse de l'albatros
Title: La danse de l'albatros
Character: Philippe
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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Farewell, My Queen
Title: Farewell, My Queen
Character: L'abbé Hérissé
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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18 Years Old and Rising
Title: 18 Years Old and Rising
Character: Delphine's Father
Released: July 20, 2011
Type: Movie
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
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Le partage de midi
Title: Le partage de midi
Character: Amalric
Released: June 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: À la recherche du temps perdu
Character: M. Verdurin
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: TV
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
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The Screen Illusion
Title: The Screen Illusion
Character: Alcandre
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad in-house high-tech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of his son, Clindor. As Pridamant witnesses the conflicting romances involving his estranged son, Corneille’s modernist meta-narrative is transposed to contemporary Paris, underscoring the ambiguous nature of love, wealth and desire in an age of consumerism. (Chicago International Film Festival)
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L'homme sans nom
Title: L'homme sans nom
Character: Alain
Released: September 25, 2010
Type: Movie
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A Very Very Beautiful Love Story
Title: A Very Very Beautiful Love Story
Character: Le gérant du bureau de placement
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Dorothée and Nicolas fall in love at first sight. Together, they’re going to live a very beautiful love story... they know it. But life always finds a way to compromise the best resolutions, the best script, and nothing will happen as expected. Nicolas and Dorothée will be carried into a stormy comedy as crazy as their passion for each other…
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Le médecin (Montmartre)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Title: By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character: le docteur Mauroy
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
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The Pact of Silence
Title: The Pact of Silence
Character: Marcel
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
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Day Off
Title: Day Off
Character: Socoa's lawyer
Released: March 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
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Inséparables
Title: Inséparables
Character: Jean
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Robert left his home in the provincial northern town of Boulogne to make it as an actor. His career never amounted to much, as he managed only a couple of acting jobs on TV. Without warning, he returns to his hometown and drops in on his sister who is in the throes of a sordid affair with her married boss. Later, Robert drops in on his younger brother, who lives with his elderly mother. As the film progresses, it quietly, sensitively depicts Robert's disruption of the lives of the members of his family.
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On a très peu d'amis
Title: On a très peu d'amis
Character: Paul
Released: March 4, 1998
Type: Movie
Two friends are taken hostage while on their way to see a childhood buddy.
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Mordbüro
Title: Mordbüro
Character: Ferguson
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev (Maurice Bennichou) goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco (Herve Briaux) won't repay a loan and may have had something to do with the accident that crippled Leo. The Mordburo is responsible for the death of a crooked lawyer, and Inspector Raoul (Patrick Catalifo) becomes suspicious.
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The Horseman on the Roof
Title: The Horseman on the Roof
Character: Brigadier Maugin
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
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Title: Lupin Season 3
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Years after a tragic injustice involving his father, Assane seeks to settle a score, and a debt, by stealing a diamond necklace. However, the heist takes an unexpected turn.