Pierre Arditi

Pierre Arditi born 1 December 1944 is an awardwinning French film and stage actor He is the brother of French actress Catherine Arditi He has often played romantic womanizing roles similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni In 1987 he won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Mélo and in 1994 a César Award for Best Actor for his role in SmokingNo Smoking Although his work has primarily been in French film and theater Arditi is known in the Anglophone world as the French voice of Christopher Reeve Arditi dubbed Christopher Reeve on the Frenchlanguage version of the three first Superman movies by Richard Donner and Richard Lester See the French Wikipedia article on Pierre Arditi for more information Because of the added footage in the DVD Special Edition of Donners Superman the movie had to be redubbed with a different voice actor much to the chagrin of the generation of moviegoers who had grown up with the original soundtrack and identified Supermans voice with Arditis He also provided the French voice for Reeve in the comedywhodunit Deathtrap Finally he was the voice of the documentary serie Untamed Africa written and produced by Frederic Lepage He was made Chevalier Knight of the Légion dhonneur in 2002 He was made Chevalier Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite on 7 April 1994 and promoted Officier Officer in 2005 Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Arditi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia