Pierre Tornade
Pierre Tornade (21 January 1930 – 7 March 2012) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1956 and 1998. He was born Pierre Tournadre on 21 January 1930 in Bort-les-Orgues in the department of Corrèze. He began his theatrical career at 25 in Elle est folle, Carole at the théâtre du Palais-Royal. In 1956, he played in the musical comedy Irma la douce by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot and then made his film debut in Les Truands, where he adopted his stage name, Tornade. The next year, he played a theater role in Pericles, Prince of Tyre before joining the Branquignols troupe of Robert Dhéry, which also included Jean Lefebvre, Michel Serrault and Micheline Dax. He then became very demanded on television and appeared in several sitcoms such as Thierry la Fronde (1963), Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1966), Les Sept de l'escalier quinze B (1967) and Les Dossiers de l'agence O (1968). Because of his tall and imposing stature, he often appeared as a policeman or a soldier. His most famous roles were the father's victim in The Common Man (1975), Captain Dumont in the series Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? (1973) and commissioner Florimond Faroux in the series Nestor Burma. A famous voice actor, he moonlighted as village chief Vitalstatistix in animated films Asterix le Gaul (1967), Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976). He later voiced Averell Dalton in Lucky Luke animated films Daisy Town (1971) and La Ballade des Dalton (1978) and Lucky Luke the Lucky Cowboy (1983). He also voiced Obelix in four other animated films of Asterix, these include Asterix Versus Caesar (1985), Asterix in Britain (1986), Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) and Asterix Conquers America (1994). He was named Chevalier (Knight) of the National Order of Merit in 1996. Tornade died on 7 March 2012 in Rambouillet hospital after several days in a coma. He had fallen accidentally in the stairway of his Yvelines residence the previous week and had been comatose since then. Source: Article "Pierre Tornade" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Three Men on a Horse
Asterix the Gaul
((voice))
Le Dindon
(Pinchard)
Asterix and Cleopatra
((voice))
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
((voice))
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
(Le commissaire)
Dis bonjour à la dame !..
(Robert Ferry)
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
(Capitaine Marcus)
Le Jour de gloire
(Le maire)
The Common Man
(Colin)
The French Detective
(Commissioner Pignol)
The Gendarme in New York
(Médecin de bord)
The Devil by the Tail
(Schwartz - le second complice)
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
((voice))
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
Beru and These Women
(Un agent de police)
Shut Up, Gulli
(The Captain)
Le Chêne d'Allouville
(Henri Brainville, mayor)
The Reluctant Spy
(An Inspector (uncredited))
The Madman of Lab Four
(DST inspector)
Impossible Is Not French
(Albert Lombard)
Les Gorilles
(A police officer)
The Dangerous Mission
(Le sergent-chef Lapointe)
Le Permis de conduire
(Le directeur de la banque)
Le petit Nicolas
('Le Bouillon')
Asterix vs. Caesar
(Obélix (voice))
Signé Furax
(Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue)
Raging Fists
(Jo, bar owner)
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
(Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie)
Les Gauloises blondes
(Biturix)
Tender Scoundrel
(Le client du garage)
Général... nous voilà !
(Julien Berger)
Crazy in the Noodle
Operation Lady Marlene
(Le commandant Moulinot)
Forget Me, Mandoline
Bebert and the Train
(Gendarme (uncredited))
A Woman in White Revolts
Les baratineurs
Song of the World
The Oldest Profession
(The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited))
Daisy Town
(Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice))
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
(Leon)
To Our Late Husband
(Radetsky)
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
(Capitaine Dumont)
Le Charlatan
Nina
(Un inspecteur)
Salut Berthe !
(Father Fauvel)
Jaloux comme un tigre
((uncredited))
Le Plus Heureux des trois
(Marjavel)
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
(Capitaine Cromières)
Le Charlatan
Asterix and the Big Fight
(Obélix (voice))
L'Huissier
(The commissioner)
The Restaurant
(Le second maître d'hôtel)
Le Passe-muraille
(Lecuyer)
The Little Bather
(Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare)
A Strange Kind of Colonel
(Un inspecteur)
Three Disordered Children
(Un agent en faction)
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
(Grosswiller, un homme d'affaires)
Funny Money
(Le gardien de prison)
Salut la puce
(Alfred)
The Night of the Generals
(Orderly (uncredited))
Antoine and Sebastian
The Tattoo
(Brigadier)
La Nuit de Tom Brown
(Le barman)
Asterix in Britain
(Obélix (voice))
The Hideout
(Léopold)
The Brain
(Belgian soldier of the armored car (uncredited))
The Right of the Maddest
(Le gendarme motorisé)
Les Truands
(Le ministre)
Deux Romains en Gaule
(Un ancien combattant gaulois)
That damn Amédée
(Le Magicien)
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
(Joseph Torrence)
Seule a Paris
(Paul)
La Belle Anglaise
(Raoul)
Nestor Burma
(Commissaire Faroux)
L'Homme du Picardie
(Malbosc)
L'Amateur
Palace
(Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client")
Vidocq
(Gontran Tornifon)
Midi Première
(Self)
Pot-Bouille
(campardon)
Lucky Luke
(Averell Dalton (voice))