Pierre Arditi
AKA: Pierre Marie Denis Arditi
Birthday: 1944-12-01
Birthplace: Paris, France
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is an award-winning French film and stage actor. He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi.
He has often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni.
In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo, and in 1994, a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No Smoking.
Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater, Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve. Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the French-language version of the three first Superman movies by Richard Donner and Richard Lester (See the French Wikipedia article on Pierre Arditi for more information). Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donner's Superman, the movie had to be re-dubbed with a different voice actor, much to the chagrin of the generation of moviegoers who had grown up with the original soundtrack and identified Superman's voice with Arditi's. He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedy/whodunit Deathtrap. Finally, he was the voice of the documentary serie Untamed Africa, written and produced by Frederic Lepage.
He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2002. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 7 April 1994, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005.
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Filmography
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Monsieur Peyrolle
Character: Pierre Grimaux
Character: Frédéric Larsan
Character: Le narrateur (voix)
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Character: Reynald Van Nuyten
Character: Pierre Larrieu
Character: Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
Character: Jean-Hugues Aymeric
Character: Henri Province
Character: Col. Esterhazy
Character: Gaspard Cavaillac
Character: Georges Valandray
Character: Gilles Vasseur
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Character: Professeur Lerner
Character: Le journaliste
Character: Pierre Belcroix
Character: Le mage adepte du nombril
Character: Le père d'Armand
Character: Duval, l'inspecteur
Character: Commissaire Pierre Tramoni
Character: Antoine Boulanger
Character: Gaspard Dassonville
Character: Charles de Florensac
Character: La voix de Dieu l'invisible (voix seulement)
Character: Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Character: Maxime Vergnaud
Character: Guillaume de Burlador
Character: Georges Clémenceau
Character: Le Sergent-chef
Character: Fisherman who looks like Pierre Arditi
Character: Narrateur (non crédité)
Character: Gérard de Villefort
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Alexandre, Mellie's father
Character: Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Character: Claude de Richemont
Character: Vincent Saulnier
Character: Jean-Marc Vannier-Buchet
Character: Pierre Bazeilles
Character: Narrateur (Voice)
Character: Georges Letournel
Character: Louis-Régis Dupont-Moreau
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Jean-Pierre Berthelot
Character: le docteur Cauvert
Character: Bernard Letechin
Character: Robert Dufresne
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Gaston Brevannes
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Character: Philippe Roussel
Character: M. Moucheboume
Character: François Fleury (segment "Le Psychanalyste")
Character: Jack London (voice)
Character: Le Roi (Voice)
Character: The actor who rehearses
Character: Cousin / Arvers
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Character: Aristide Briand
Character: François Villedieu-Lacour
Character: Bernard Letéchin
Character: Baron Jean de Malbray
Character: Self - Narrator