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 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 CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Film 1969
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Film 1967
Pinchard
Film 1986
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Film 1968
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Film 1976
Le commissaire
Film 1973
Robert Ferry
Film 1977
Capitaine Marcus
Film 1977
Le maire
Film 1976
Colin
Film 1975
Commissioner Pignol
Film 1975
Médecin de bord
Film 1965
Schwartz - le second complice
Film 1969
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Film 1983
Film 1967
Un agent de police
Film 1968
The Captain
Film 1974
Henri Brainville, mayor
Film 1981
An Inspector (uncredited)
Film 1963
DST inspector
Film 1967
Albert Lombard
Film 1974
A police officer
Film 1964
Le sergent-chef Lapointe
Film 1975
Le directeur de la banque
Film 1974
'Le Bouillon'
Film 1964
Obélix (voice)
Film 1985
Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue
Film 1981
Jo, bar owner
Film 1975
Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
Film 1973
Biturix
Film 1988
Le client du garage
Film 1966
Julien Berger
Film 1978
Film 1957
Le commandant Moulinot
Film 1974
Film 1976
Gendarme (uncredited)
Film 1963
Film 1966
Film 1965
Film 1965
The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
Film 1967
Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
Film 1971
Leon
Film 1969
Radetsky
Film 1988
Capitaine Dumont
Film 1975
Film 1980
Un inspecteur
Film 1959
Father Fauvel
Film 1968
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Film 1964
Marjavel
Film 1979
Capitaine Cromières
Film 1986
Film 1974
Obélix (voice)
Film 1989
The commissioner
Film 1991
Lecuyer
Film 1977
Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
Film 1968
Un agent en faction
Film 1966
Un inspecteur
Film 1968
Grosswiller, un homme d'affaires
Film 1969
Le gardien de prison
Film 1966
Alfred
Film 1983
Orderly (uncredited)
Film 1967
Film 1974
Brigadier
Film 1968
Le barman
Film 1959
Obélix (voice)
Film 1986
Léopold
Film 1971
Belgian soldier of the armored car (uncredited)
Film 1969
Le gendarme motorisé
Film 1973
Le ministre
Film 1956
Un ancien combattant gaulois
Film 1967
Le Magicien
Film 1957
Joseph Torrence
Tv 1968
Paul
Tv 1965
Raoul
Tv 1988
Commissaire Faroux
Tv 1991
Malbosc
Tv 1968
Tv 1967
Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client"
Tv 1988
Gontran Tornifon
Tv 1967
Self
Tv 1975
campardon
Tv 1972
Averell Dalton (voice)
Tv 1984