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Pierre Tornade

Pierre Tornade

Actor · 1930 – 2012 · Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France

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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  • Movie6.9

    Astérix et Cléopâtre

    Asterix and Cleopatra

    1968 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Les 12 travaux d'Astérix

    The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

    1976 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Astérix chez les Bretons

    Asterix in Britain

    1986 · 750 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Astérix et le Coup du menhir

    Asterix and the Big Fight

    1989 · 687 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Astérix et la Surprise de César

    Asterix vs. Caesar

    1985 · 663 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Night of the Generals

    1967 · 191 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Le Gendarme à New-York

    The Gendarme in New York

    1965 · 578 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Astérix le Gaulois

    Asterix the Gaul

    1967 · 826 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Tendre voyou

    Tender Scoundrel

    1966 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Daisy Town

    1971 · 136 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Le Cerveau

    The Brain

    1969 · 315 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde

    The Oldest Profession

    1967 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Le Tatoué

    The Tattoo

    1968 · 264 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Lucky Luke: La Ballade des Dalton

    Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

    1978 · 120 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Le Petit Baigneur

    The Little Bather

    1968 · 400 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie ?

    Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

    1973 · 396 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Lucky Luke : Les Dalton en cavale

    Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

    1983 · 63 votes

  • Movie7.3

    On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie !

    The Seventh Company Has Been Found

    1975 · 321 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Le Grand Restaurant

    The Restaurant

    1966 · 574 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Signé Furax

    1981 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Adieu poulet

    The French Detective

    1975 · 138 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Le diable par la queue

    The Devil by the Tail

    1969 · 57 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Je sais rien mais je dirai tout

    I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

    1973 · 68 votes

  • Movie6.4

    La Raison du plus fou

    The Right of the Maddest

    1973 · 8 votes

Series13

  • TV9.0

    Midi Première

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.9

    Nestor Burma

    1991 · 14 votes

  • TV6.6

    Lucky Luke

    1984 · 92 votes

  • TV6.9

    Palace

    1988 · 7 votes

  • TV8.0

    Quand on est deux

    1962 · 1 votes

  • TV7.5

    L'Homme du Picardie

    1968 · 4 votes

  • TV10.0
  • TV9.0

    Vidocq

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV8.0

    Seule a Paris

    1965 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0

    La Belle Anglaise

    1988 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    L'Amateur

    1967 · 2 votes

  • TV10.0

    Pot-Bouille

    1972 · 1 votes