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