Pierre Tcherniakowski (29 January 1928 – 8 October 2016), better known as Pierre Tchernia, was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France, he was known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema. Born in Paris as Pierre Tcherniakowski, he was the youngest of four children. His father, a Ukrainian immigrant, was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. He grew up in Courbevoie. In 1940, at age 12, he saw John Ford's Western Stagecoach and was inspired to work in cinema. After graduation, he enrolled in a film and photography technical school, and then joined the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies. He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney). For many years he hosted a television game show of movie trivia, Monsieur Cinéma (in French). He was also host or presenter for various French talk, variety, quiz and music shows over the years such as La Clé des champs. Tchernia was the regular French commentator in the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 occasions from 1958 until 1974. On 14 July 2011, he became Commandeur of the Legion of Honor. Source: Article "Pierre Tchernia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

• 2010Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima — Writer
• 2008Asterix at the Olympic Games — Le narrateur (voice)
• 2006Asterix and the Vikings — Le narrateur (voice)
• 2002Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra — Caius Gaspachoandalus / Le narrateur
• 2001Tintin voyageur du siècle — Narrateur
• 1991Héloïse — Narrateur, Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
• 1991L'Huissier — Director
• Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé — Director, Adaptation, Dialogue
• 1988Bonjour l'angoisse — Writer, Director
• 1988Turning Table — The Mockingbird (voice)
• 1986Asterix in Britain — Adaptation
• 1985Asterix vs. Caesar — Writer
• 1985Les Rois du gag — Presenter of the Césars
• 1982Le Voyageur imprudent — Director, Adaptation
• 1981Signé Furax — Un agent de l'Obélisque
• 1979La Grâce — Director, Writer
• 1979The Other One's Mug — Director
• 1978Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons — Other
• 1977Le Passe-muraille — Director
• 1976The Twelve Tasks of Asterix — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1974La Gueule de l’emploi — Le colleur d'affiches
• 1974The Down-in-the-Hole Gang — Director, Screenplay
• 1972Aujourd'hui à Paris — Director, Writer
• 1972The Annuity — Director, Writer
• 1971Daisy Town — Screenplay, Adaptation, Lyricist
• Le Francophonissime — Présentation
• 1968Asterix and Cleopatra — Screenplay
• 1968The Little Bather — Le président du jury (uncredited), Screenplay
• 1967Deux Romains en Gaule — Voix-off, Director
• 1967La Bonne Peinture
• 1965Killer Spy — Interviewer
• 1964The Counterfeit Constable — Director, Writer
• 1963Carom Shots — Legris, nouveau cadre supérieur de 321 (uncredited), Adaptation
• 1963Le Café liégeois — Director
• 1962A Horse for Two — Other agent who arrests the suitcase thief
• 1962Rue du Havre
• 1962War of the Buttons — Bédouin, rural warden
• 1961On purge bébé — Horace Truchet
• 1961The American Beauty — Announcer, Director, Screenplay
• 1959L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle — Le commissaire de police
• 1958There Is the Brunette — Guissauguet - le client
• 1957Le Violon de l'orphéon — Narrator (voice), Writer
• Messieurs les farfelus — Caméo

Appearances as themselves (26)

• 2019Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol — Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
• 2017De Gaulle, the Last King of France — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Clouzot Scandal — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Bravo Charlot! — Self
• 2003Paul Grimault, image par image — Self
• 2002How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra — Self - Actor
• 2001Le Club : Claude Jade — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Les Enfants de la télé — Self - Co-Host
• Les Nuls, l'émission — Self - Guest
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Téléthon — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• L'Académie des 9 — Self
• Cérémonie des César — Self - Host
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• Si Perrault m'était conté — Self
• Discorama — Self - Host
• Cinépanorama — Self
• En direct de... — self