Christian Barbier (28 June 1924 – 3 November 2009) was a French film and television actor.
[1] Barbier was born at Saint-Ouen, Seine (currently Seine-Saint-Denis), France.
He is especially remembered for his first-class performance in Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969.
Appearing in a number of soaps and TV shows of the late 1960s to early 1980s, Barbier gained a certain notoriety thanks to the character of Joseph Durtol, bounded and proud hero of The Man of Picardy, the legendary French television series.
He died in Manosque (Alpes de Haute-Provence), aged 85.