Pierre Tornade

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 BortlesOrgues in the department of Corrèze He began his theatrical career at 25 in Elle est folle Carole at the théâtre du PalaisRoyal 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 dHarmental 1966 Les Sept de lescalier quinze B 1967 and Les Dossiers de lagence O 1968 Because of his tall and imposing stature he often appeared as a policeman or a soldier His most famous roles were the fathers 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 CCBYSA 30