Berthollier was born in
Pont-à-Mousson on 23 January 1928. He studied at the ''Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Nancy'' and was later instructed by
Charles Dullin alongside the likes of
Jean Rochefort and
Jean-Pierre Marielle. From 1949 to 1959, he was an actor, appearing in close to thirty films, television shows, and plays. In 1961, Berthollier began working as a contributor to the television news program
Cinq colonnes à la une, producing several reports on Southeast Asia. In 1965, he began hosting other television news programs, such as
Lectures pour tous and ''
. From 1974 to 1982, he hosted C'est pas sérieux
. He then produced and hosted Télé à la Une
on TF1 and Les Choses du lundi'' from 1984 to 1985. In his later years, Berthollier regularly participated in the show
Les Jeux de 20 heures. After the privatization of TF1 in 1987, he produced and directed
Les Choses du lundi for . In 1990, he began to focus on writing, authoring a biography of
Yvan Goll in the magazine
Europe. Jean Bertho died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 94. ==Filmography==