Pierre Tornade
Acting
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.
L'Huissier
The commissioner
Asterix and the Big Fight
Obélix (voice)
Les Gauloises blondes
Biturix
To Our Late Husband
Radetsky
Asterix in Britain
Obélix (voice)
Le Dindon
Pinchard
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Capitaine Cromières
Asterix vs. Caesar
Obélix (voice)
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
(voice)
Salut la puce
Alfred
Signé Furax
Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue
Le Chêne d'Allouville
Henri Brainville, mayor
Le Charlatan
Le Plus Heureux des trois
Marjavel
Général... nous voilà !
Julien Berger
Le Passe-muraille
Lecuyer
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Capitaine Marcus
Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Robert Ferry
Le Jour de gloire
Le maire
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (voice)
Forget Me, Mandoline
Jean-Paul Tardu
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Capitaine Dumont
The French Detective
Commissioner Pignol
The Dangerous Mission
Le sergent-chef Lapointe
The Common Man
Colin
Raging Fists
Jo, bar owner
Impossible Is Not French
Albert Lombard, patron de l'Agence Lombard et beau-frère d'Antoine
Shut Up, Gulli
The Captain
Operation Lady Marlene
Le commandant Moulinot
Le Charlatan
Le Permis de conduire
Le directeur de la banque
Antoine and Sebastian
Max
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Le commissaire
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
The Right of the Maddest
Le gendarme motorisé
Daisy Town
Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
The Hideout
Léopold
Three Men on a Horse
Jo Gabardine
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Grosswiller, businessman
The Brain
Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)
The Devil by the Tail
Schwartz - le second complice
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Léon , the cheated husband
Asterix and Cleopatra
(voice)
Beru and These Women
Policier
Salut Berthe !
Father Fauvel
The Tattoo
le brigadier de Montignac
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Inspector
The Little Bather
Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
Asterix the Gaul
Abraracourcix / le marchand de bœufs / Caius Bonus (voice)
The Madman of Lab Four
DST inspector
The Oldest Profession
The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
Deux Romains en Gaule
Un ancien combattant gaulois
The Night of the Generals
Orderly (uncredited)
Tender Scoundrel
Le client du garage
The Restaurant
Le second maître d'hôtel
Three Disordered Children
Un agent en faction
A Young World
Le voisin père de l'enfant
A Woman in White Revolts
Ambulance man (uncredited)
Funny Money
Le gardien de prison
The Gendarme in New York
Médecin de bord
Song of the World
Les baratineurs
Thès
Les Gorilles
A police officer
Jaloux comme un tigre
(uncredited)
Le Petit Nicolas
'Le Bouillon'
Bebert and the Train
Gendarme (uncredited)
The Reluctant Spy
An Inspector (uncredited)
La Nuit de Tom Brown
Le barman
Nina
Un inspecteur
That damn Amédée
Le Magicien
Crazy in the Noodle
Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"
Les Truands
Le ministre