Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#114871
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Albert Augier represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Albert is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Albert Augier appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Albert. Le Trou is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Pino Van Lamsweerde, Woody Allen, Fred Zinnemann and others, Albert Augier helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Le Trou (1960) as Un gardien · Love and Death (1975) as Waiter · The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Policeman in Hotel
Career snapshot
Ranked #114871 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
1960–1986
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Le Trou
Average Nutevio score
7.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Le Trou
Most frequent director
Pino Van Lamsweerde
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Pino Van Lamsweerde
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.7
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.2 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Love and Death, The Day of the Jackal — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, Le Trou.
Most productive era
1960s
2 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.61 film | — | — |
| Action | — | 7.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 7.21 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 7.21 film | 6.71 film |
| Crime | 7.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1960Le Trou
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Un gardien. 7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Epidemaïs (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
as Un gardien
Directed by Jacques Becker
as Waiter
Directed by Woody Allen
as Policeman in Hotel
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
as Mustached Sailor (voice)
Directed by Raymond Leblanc
as Epidemaïs (voice)
Directed by Pino Van Lamsweerde
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Un gardien
Le Trou (1960)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Un gardien gives Albert Augier a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Waiter
Love and Death (1975)
Performance score7.1
Love and Death asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Waiter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Policeman in Hotel
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Performance score7.1
The Day of the Jackal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Policeman in Hotel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mustached Sailor (voice)
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
Performance score6.7
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mustached Sailor (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Un gardien
Start here. Le Trou is the clearest statement of what Albert Augier does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Albert at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
A deliberate change of key after Le Trou — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A deliberate change of key after Tintin and the Temple of the Sun — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love and Death (1975)
A deliberate change of key after The Day of the Jackal — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Asterix in Britain (1986)
Keeps the comedy register of Love and Death but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jacques Becker
Director
1 film together
Notably Le Trou
Raymond Leblanc
Director
1 film together
Notably Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
Fred Zinnemann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day of the Jackal
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Love and Death
Pino Van Lamsweerde
Director
1 film together
Notably Asterix in Britain
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jacques Becker
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Le TrouWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love and DeathFred Zinnemann
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day of the JackalPino Van Lamsweerde
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Asterix in BritainRaymond Leblanc
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tintin and the Temple of the SunSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Le Trou
as Un gardien
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Asterix in Britain
as Epidemaïs (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Le Trou
as Un gardien
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Day of the Jackal
as Policeman in Hotel
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Le Trou
as Un gardien
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Albert Augier has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
26 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Le Trou
as Un gardien
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Le Trou
as Un gardien
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Asterix in Britain
as Epidemaïs (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Le Trou
as Un gardien
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Day of the Jackal
as Policeman in Hotel
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Day of the Jackal
as Policeman in Hotel
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Le Trou
as Un gardien
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Asterix in Britain
as Epidemaïs (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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