Pierre Tornade

Acting

Born Jan 21, 1930

From Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France

Died Mar 07, 2012

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.

Pierre Tornade

Known For

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

The Night of the Generals

The Gendarme in New York

The Madman of Lab Four

Asterix the Gaul

Asterix vs. Caesar

Asterix and Cleopatra

The Restaurant

Asterix and the Big Fight

The Tattoo

Filmography — Acting

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

The Night of the Generals

The Gendarme in New York

The Madman of Lab Four

Asterix the Gaul

Asterix vs. Caesar

Asterix and Cleopatra

The Restaurant

Asterix and the Big Fight

The Tattoo

Asterix in Britain

The Brain

The Oldest Profession

The Little Bather

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

The French Detective

Signé Furax

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

Tender Scoundrel

The Devil by the Tail

Daisy Town

The Common Man

Funny Money

Les Truands

La Nuit de Tom Brown

Impossible Is Not French

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

Les Gorilles

Beru and These Women

The Right of the Maddest

Crazy in the Noodle

Song of the World

A Strange Kind of Colonel

Faites donc plaisir aux amis

A Young World

Le Permis de conduire

Antoine and Sebastian

Salut Berthe !

The Hideout

Bebert and the Train

Deux Romains en Gaule

Le Jour de gloire

Forget Me, Mandoline

The Dangerous Mission

Three Disordered Children

Dis bonjour à la dame !..

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

Le Chêne d'Allouville

Operation Lady Marlene

A Woman in White Revolts

Les baratineurs

Jaloux comme un tigre

L'Huissier

Le Plus Heureux des trois

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!

Le Petit Nicolas

Général... nous voilà !

Nina

Salut la puce

The Reluctant Spy

Raging Fists

Les Gauloises blondes

Three Men on a Horse

Le Passe-muraille

Shut Up, Gulli

That damn Amédée