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person_profile-Pierre Tornade

Pierre Tornade Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Pierre Tornade

Date of Birth:

Jan 21, 1930

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Mar 07, 2012

Biography of

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.

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Pierre Tornade

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Filmography of

Pierre Tornade

Found 60 Movies in total

Asterix Conquers America

Obélix (VO) ( Actor )

... 1994

Asterix and the Big Fight

Obélix (voice) ( Actor )

... 1989

Les Gauloises blondes

Biturix ( Actor )

... 1988

To Our Late Husband

Radetsky ( Actor )

... 1988

Asterix in Britain

Obélix (voix) ( Actor )

... 1986

Asterix vs. Caesar

Obélix (voice) ( Actor )

... 1985

... 1983

Salut la puce

Alfred ( Actor )

... 1983

Signé Furax

Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue ( Actor )

... 1981

Le Chêne d'Allouville

Henri Brainville, le maire ( Actor )

... 1981

Le Passe-muraille

Lecuyer ( Actor )

... 1977

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!

Capitaine Marcus ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1977

Le Jour de gloire

Le maire ( Actor )

... 1976

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

The French Detective

Commissioner Pignol ( Actor )

... 1975

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

Capitaine Dumont ( Actor )

... 1975

The Common Man

Colin ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1975

Impossible Is Not French

Albert Lombard ( Actor )

... 1974

Shut Up, Gulli

The Captain ( Actor )

... 1974

Operation Lady Marlene

Le commandant Moulinot ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1974

... 1973

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1971

The Hideout

Léopold ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1969

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

Grosswiller, un homme d'affaires ( Actor )

... 1969

The Brain

Belgian soldier at the Gare de l'Est (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1969

The Devil by the Tail

Schwartz - le second complice ( Actor )

... 1969

Asterix and Cleopatra

Abraracourcix / Numérobis / Mercenary (voice) ( Actor )

... 1968

Beru and These Women

Un agent de police ( Actor )

... 1968

Salut Berthe !

Père Fauvel ( Actor )

... 1968

The Tattoo

Le brigadier ( Actor )

... 1968

A Strange Kind of Colonel

Un inspecteur ( Actor )

... 1968

The Little Bather

Le ministre ( Actor )

... 1968

Asterix the Gaul

Abraracourcix / Caius Bonus / Ox Merchant (voice) ( Actor )

... 1967

The Madman of Lab Four

l'inspecteur DST ( Actor )

... 1967

The Oldest Profession

The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1967

Deux Romains en Gaule

Un ancien combattant gaulois ( Actor )

... 1967

The Night of the Generals

Orderly (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1967

Tender Scoundrel

Le client du garage ( Actor )

... 1966

The Restaurant

Un maître d'hôtel ( Actor )

... 1966

Three Disordered Children

Un agent en faction ( Actor )

... 1966

A Young World

Le voisin père de l'enfant ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

Funny Money

Le gardien de prison ( Actor )

... 1966

The Gendarme in New York

Médecin de bord ( Actor )

... 1965

... 1965

... 1965

Les Gorilles

A police officer ( Actor )

... 1964

Jaloux comme un tigre

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1964

The Reluctant Spy

An Inspector (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1963

La Nuit de Tom Brown

Le barman ( Actor )

... 1959

Nina

Un inspecteur ( Actor )

... 1959

That damn Amédée

Le Magicien ( Actor )

... 1957

... 1957

Les Truands

Le ministre ( Actor )

... 1956