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.

Фільмографія

• 1991L'Huissier — The commissioner
• Nestor Burma — Commissaire Faroux
• 1989Велика битва Астерікса — Obélix (voice)
• La Belle Anglaise — Raoul
• 1988Les Gauloises blondes — Biturix
• Palace — Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client"
• 1988To Our Late Husband — Radetsky
• 1986Le Dindon — Pinchard
• 1986Les Dégourdis de la onzième — Capitaine Cromières
• 1986Астерікс у Британії — Obélix (voice)
• 1985Астерікс проти Цезаря — Obélix (voice)
• Lucky Luke — Averell Dalton (voice)
• 1983Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose — (voice)
• 1983Salut la puce — Alfred
• 1981Le Chêne d'Allouville — Henri Brainville, mayor
• 1981Signé Furax — Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue
• 1980Le Charlatan
• 1979Le Plus Heureux des trois — Marjavel
• 1978Général... nous voilà...! — Julien Berger
• 1978Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons — Averell Dalton
• 1977Dis bonjour à la dame !.. — Robert Ferry
• 1977Le Passe-muraille — Lecuyer
• 1977Stop Fooling Around... Soldier! — Capitaine Marcus
• 197612 подвигів Астерікса — Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (voice)
• 1976Forget Me, Mandoline — Jean-Paul Tardu
• 1976Le Jour de gloire — Le maire
• 1975Raging Fists — Jo, bar owner
• 1975The Common Man — Colin
• 1975The Dangerous Mission — Le sergent-chef Lapointe
• 1975The French Detective — Commissioner Pignol
• 1975The Seventh Company Has Been Found — Capitaine Dumont
• 1974Antoine and Sebastian — Max
• 1974Impossible Is Not French — Albert Lombard, patron de l'Agence Lombard et beau-frère d'Antoine
• 1974Le Charlatan
• 1974Le Permis de conduire — Le directeur de la banque
• 1974Operation Lady Marlene — Le commandant Moulinot
• 1974Shut Up, Gulli — The Captain
• 1973I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything — Le commissaire
• 1973Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? — Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
• 1973The Right of the Maddest — Le gendarme motorisé
• Pot-Bouille — campardon
• 1971Daisy Town — Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
• 1971The Hideout — Léopold
• 1969Faites donc plaisir aux amis — Léon , the cheated husband
• 1969L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus — Grosswiller, businessman
• 1969The Brain — Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)
• 1969The Devil by the Tail — Schwartz - le second complice
• 1969Three Men on a Horse — Jo Gabardine
• 1968A Strange Kind of Colonel — Inspector
• 1968Beru and These Women — Policier
• L'Homme du Picardie — Malbosc
• Le Capitaine Fracasse
• Les Dossiers de l'Agence O — Joseph Torrence
• 1968Salut Berthe ! — Father Fauvel
• 1968The Little Bather — Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
• 1968The Tattoo — le brigadier de Montignac
• 1968Астерікс і Клеопатра — (voice)
• 1967Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
• 1967Deux Romains en Gaule — Un ancien combattant gaulois
• L'Amateur
• 1967The Madman of Lab Four — DST inspector
• 1967The Night of the Generals — Orderly (uncredited)
• 1967The Oldest Profession — The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
• Vidocq — Gontran Tornifon
• 1967Астерікс із Галлії — Abraracourcix / le marchand de bœufs / Caius Bonus (voice)
• 1966A Woman in White Revolts — Ambulance man (uncredited)
• 1966A Young World — Le voisin père de l'enfant
• 1966Funny Money — Le gardien de prison
• 1966Tender Scoundrel — Le client du garage
• 1966The Restaurant — Le second maître d'hôtel
• 1966Three Disordered Children — Un agent en faction
• 1965Les baratineurs — Thès
• Seule a Paris — Paul
• 1965Song of the World
• 1965Жандарм у Нью-Йорку — Médecin de bord
• 1964Jaloux comme un tigre — (uncredited)
• 1964Le Petit Nicolas — 'Le Bouillon'
• 1964Les Gorilles — A police officer
• 1963Bebert and the Train — Gendarme (uncredited)
• 1963The Reluctant Spy — An Inspector (uncredited)
• Quand on est deux — Le chef déménageur
• 1959La Nuit de Tom Brown — Le barman
• 1959Nina — Un inspecteur
• Les Cinq Dernières Minutes — Jules
• 1957Crazy in the Noodle — Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"
• 1957That damn Amédée — Le Magicien
• 1956Les Truands — Le ministre

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