Pierre Tornade

Known for ActingBorn 1930-01-21Died 2012-03-07Bort-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.Read more

Movies & web series

Raging Fists

Pot-Bouille

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

A Young World

La Belle Anglaise

Le Plus Heureux des trois

Midi Première

Vidocq

Antoine and Sebastian

L'Amateur

A Woman in White Revolts

Seule a Paris

Quand on est deux

L'Homme du Picardie

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

The Brain

The Reluctant Spy

La Nuit de Tom Brown

The Common Man

Palace

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

Deux Romains en Gaule

Asterix in Britain

Asterix and Cleopatra

Lucky Luke

The Night of the Generals

The French Detective

The Restaurant

Shut Up, Gulli

Daisy Town

Asterix vs. Caesar

Impossible Is Not French

The Little Bather

That damn Amédée

Asterix and the Big Fight

Asterix the Gaul

Le Permis de conduire

The Right of the Maddest

The Tattoo

Nina

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

Les Gorilles

Bebert and the Train

Faites donc plaisir aux amis

The Gendarme in New York

L'Huissier