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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 21, 1930
Died
March 7, 2012
Place of Birth
Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France
Also Known As
- Pierre Tournadre
Pierre Tornade
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.1
Commissaire Faroux
Nestor Burma
1991
0.0
The commissioner
L'Huissier
1991
6.3
Obélix (voice)
Asterix and the Big Fight
1989
6.7
Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client"
Palace
1988
🎬
0.0
Raoul
La Belle Anglaise
1988
3.3
Biturix
Les Gauloises blondes
1988
4.5
Radetsky
To Our Late Husband
1988
6.8
Obélix (voice)
Asterix in Britain
1986
4.0
Pinchard
Le Dindon
1986
0.0
Capitaine Cromières
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
1986
Credits
Nestor Burma
as Commissaire Faroux
1991
6.1
L'Huissier
as The commissioner
1991
0.0
Asterix and the Big Fight
as Obélix (voice)
1989
6.3
Palace
as Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client"
1988
6.7
🎬
La Belle Anglaise
as Raoul
1988
0.0
Les Gauloises blondes
as Biturix
1988
3.3
To Our Late Husband
as Radetsky
1988
4.5
Asterix in Britain
as Obélix (voice)
1986
6.8
Le Dindon
as Pinchard
1986
4.0
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
as Capitaine Cromières
1986
0.0
Asterix vs. Caesar
as Obélix (voice)
1985
6.5
Lucky Luke
as Averell Dalton (voice)
1984
6.6
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
as (voice)
1983
6.2
Salut la puce
as Alfred
1983
5.7
Signé Furax
as Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue
1981
4.8
Le Chêne d'Allouville
as Henri Brainville, mayor
1981
5.6
🎬
Le Charlatan
1980
0.0
Le Plus Heureux des trois
as Marjavel
1979
0.0
Général... nous voilà !
as Julien Berger
1978
2.0
Le Passe-muraille
as Lecuyer
1977
3.0
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
as Capitaine Marcus
1977
3.7
Dis bonjour à la dame !..
as Robert Ferry
1977
3.0
Le Jour de gloire
as Le maire
1976
5.6
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
as Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (voice)
1976
7.3
Forget Me, Mandoline
as Jean-Paul Tardu
1976
2.5
The French Detective
as Commissioner Pignol
1975
6.8
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
as Capitaine Dumont
1975
7.3
The Dangerous Mission
as Le sergent-chef Lapointe
1975
4.0
The Common Man
as Colin
1975
7.0
Raging Fists
as Jo, bar owner
1975
0.0
Midi Première
as Self
1975
10.0
Impossible Is Not French
as Albert Lombard
1974
6.6
Shut Up, Gulli
as The Captain
1974
6.0
Operation Lady Marlene
as Le commandant Moulinot
1974
4.8
Le Charlatan
1974
0.0
Le Permis de conduire
as Le directeur de la banque
1974
6.2
Antoine and Sebastian
as Max
1974
0.0
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
as Le commissaire
1973
5.3
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
as Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
1973
7.3
The Right of the Maddest
as Le gendarme motorisé
1973
5.8
Pot-Bouille
as campardon
1972
0.0
Daisy Town
as Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
1971
6.6
The Hideout
as Léopold
1971
2.0
Three Men on a Horse
as Jo Gabardine
1969
1.0
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Grosswiller, businessman
1969
0.0
The Brain
as Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)
1969
7.3
The Devil by the Tail
as Schwartz - le second complice
1969
6.0
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
as Léon , the cheated husband
1969
4.5
Asterix and Cleopatra
as (voice)
1968
6.9
L'Homme du Picardie
as Malbosc
1968
6.5
Beru and These Women
as Policeman
1968
3.2
Salut Berthe !
as Father Fauvel
1968
4.4
The Tattoo
as Brigadier
1968
6.4
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Un inspecteur
1968
5.5
The Little Bather
as Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
1968
6.6
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
as Joseph Torrence
1968
10.0
🎬
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
1967
0.0
Asterix the Gaul
as (voice)
1967
6.4
The Madman of Lab Four
as DST inspector
1967
5.9
L'Amateur
1967
0.0
The Oldest Profession
as The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
1967
5.0
Deux Romains en Gaule
as Un ancien combattant gaulois
1967
6.5
The Night of the Generals
as Orderly (uncredited)
1967
6.8
Vidocq
as Gontran Tornifon
1967
9.0
Tender Scoundrel
as Le client du garage
1966
5.2
The Restaurant
as Le second maître d'hôtel
1966
6.8
Three Disordered Children
as Un agent en faction
1966
5.2
A Young World
as Le voisin père de l'enfant
1966
0.0
A Woman in White Revolts
as Ambulance man (uncredited)
1966
6.0
Funny Money
as Le gardien de prison
1966
5.2
Seule a Paris
as Paul
1965
0.0
The Gendarme in New York
as Médecin de bord
1965
6.3
Song of the World
1965
1.0
Les baratineurs
as Thès
1965
4.0
Les Gorilles
as A police officer
1964
5.5
Jaloux comme un tigre
as (uncredited)
1964
2.0
Le petit Nicolas
as 'Le Bouillon'
1964
0.0
Bebert and the Train
as Gendarme (uncredited)
1963
6.3
The Reluctant Spy
as An Inspector (uncredited)
1963
7.0
La Nuit de Tom Brown
as Le barman
1959
0.0
Nina
as Un inspecteur
1959
3.0
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Jules
1958
0.0
That damn Amédée
as Le Magicien
1957
5.5
Crazy in the Noodle
as Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"
1957
6.1
Les Truands
as Le ministre
1956
4.5