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Pierre Tornade

AKA: Pierre Tournadre
Birthday: 1930-01-21
Died: 2012-03-07
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

Asterix the Gaul
Character: (voice)
Le Dindon
Character: Pinchard

Asterix and Cleopatra
Character: (voice)
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Character: (voice)

Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: Robert Ferry
Le Jour de gloire
Character: Le maire
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Character: Capitaine Marcus

The Common Man
Character: Colin
The French Detective
Character: Commissioner Pignol
The Gendarme in New York
Character: Médecin de bord

The Devil by the Tail
Character: Schwartz - le second complice

Beru and These Women
Character: Un agent de police
Shut Up, Gulli
Character: The Captain
Le Chêne d'Allouville
Character: Henri Brainville, mayor

The Reluctant Spy
Character: An Inspector (uncredited)
The Madman of Lab Four
Character: DST inspector
Impossible Is Not French
Character: Albert Lombard

Les Gorilles
Character: A police officer
The Dangerous Mission
Character: Le sergent-chef Lapointe
Le Permis de conduire
Character: Le directeur de la banque

Le petit Nicolas
Character: 'Le Bouillon'
Asterix vs. Caesar
Character: Obélix (voice)
Signé Furax
Character: Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue

Raging Fists
Character: Jo, bar owner
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Character: Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
Les Gauloises blondes
Character: Biturix

Tender Scoundrel
Character: Le client du garage
Général... nous voilà !
Character: Julien Berger

Operation Lady Marlene
Character: Le commandant Moulinot
Bebert and the Train
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)


The Oldest Profession
Character: The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
Daisy Town
Character: Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)

To Our Late Husband
Character: Radetsky
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Character: Capitaine Dumont

Nina
Character: Un inspecteur
Salut Berthe !
Character: Father Fauvel
Jaloux comme un tigre
Character: (uncredited)

Le Plus Heureux des trois
Character: Marjavel
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Character: Capitaine Cromières

Asterix and the Big Fight
Character: Obélix (voice)
L'Huissier
Character: The commissioner
The Restaurant
Character: Le second maître d'hôtel

Le Passe-muraille
Character: Lecuyer
The Little Bather
Character: Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
A Strange Kind of Colonel
Character: Un inspecteur

Three Disordered Children
Character: Un agent en faction
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Character: Grosswiller, un homme d'affaires
Funny Money
Character: Le gardien de prison

Salut la puce
Character: Alfred
The Night of the Generals
Character: Orderly (uncredited)

The Tattoo
Character: Brigadier
La Nuit de Tom Brown
Character: Le barman
Asterix in Britain
Character: Obélix (voice)

The Hideout
Character: Léopold
The Brain
Character: Belgian soldier of the armored car
The Right of the Maddest
Character: Le gendarme motorisé

Les Truands
Character: Le ministre
Deux Romains en Gaule
Character: Un ancien combattant gaulois
That damn Amédée
Character: Le Magicien