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