Pierre Tornade
Acting
Born 1930-01-21
Died 2012-03-07
Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France
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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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Midi Première
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Lucky Luke
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Asterix and Cleopatra
Palace
Nestor Burma
The Tattoo
Asterix vs. Caesar
Quand on est deux
The Night of the Generals
Asterix and the Big Fight
The Brain
Asterix the Gaul
A Woman in White Revolts
The Little Bather
Daisy Town
Asterix in Britain
L'Homme du Picardie
The Gendarme in New York
The Restaurant
Vidocq
Les baratineurs
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Tender Scoundrel
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Signé Furax
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Les Gorilles
The French Detective
The Oldest Profession
Nina
La Belle Anglaise
The Hideout
Seule a Paris
L'Amateur
Le Permis de conduire
L'Huissier
Le Chêne d'Allouville
The Common Man
Pot-Bouille
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Salut la puce
Jaloux comme un tigre
The Devil by the Tail
Le Charlatan
Three Disordered Children
The Madman of Lab Four
Général... nous voilà...!
That damn Amédée
Forget Me, Mandoline
Les Gauloises blondes
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
The Dangerous Mission
Operation Lady Marlene
Bebert and the Train
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
The Right of the Maddest
The Reluctant Spy
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