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 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: Acting

Born: Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France, 1930-01-21

Died: 2012-03-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Les Truands	Le ministre	45
2	1957	Crazy in the Noodle	Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"	60
3	1957	That damn Amédée	Le Magicien	55
4	1959	Nina	Un inspecteur	30
5	1959	La Nuit de Tom Brown	Le barman	0
6	1963	The Reluctant Spy	An Inspector (uncredited)	70
7	1963	Bebert and the Train	Gendarme (uncredited)	63
8	1964	Le petit Nicolas	'Le Bouillon'	0
9	1964	Jaloux comme un tigre	(uncredited)	20
10	1964	Les Gorilles	A police officer	55
11	1965	Les baratineurs	Thès	40
12	1965	Song of the World		10
13	1965	The Gendarme in New York	Médecin de bord	63
14	1966	Funny Money	Le gardien de prison	52
15	1966	A Woman in White Revolts	Ambulance man (uncredited)	60
16	1966	A Young World	Le voisin père de l'enfant	0
17	1966	Three Disordered Children	Un agent en faction	52
18	1966	The Restaurant	Le second maître d'hôtel	68
19	1966	Tender Scoundrel	Le client du garage	52
20	1967	The Night of the Generals	Orderly (uncredited)	68
21	1967	Deux Romains en Gaule	Un ancien combattant gaulois	65
22	1967	The Oldest Profession	The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)	50
23	1967	The Madman of Lab Four	DST inspector	59
24	1967	Asterix the Gaul	(voice)	65
25	1967	Cette nuit-là à Bethléem		0
26	1968	The Little Bather	Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare	66
27	1968	A Strange Kind of Colonel	Un inspecteur	55
28	1968	The Tattoo	Brigadier	64
29	1968	Salut Berthe !	Father Fauvel	44
30	1968	Beru and These Women	Policeman	32
31	1968	Asterix and Cleopatra	(voice)	70
32	1969	Faites donc plaisir aux amis	Léon , the cheated husband	45
33	1969	The Devil by the Tail	Schwartz - le second complice	60
34	1969	The Brain	Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)	73
35	1969	L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus	Grosswiller, businessman	0
36	1969	Three Men on a Horse	Jo Gabardine	10
37	1971	The Hideout	Léopold	20
38	1971	Daisy Town	Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)	66
39	1973	The Right of the Maddest	Le gendarme motorisé	58
40	1973	Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?	Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie	73
41	1973	I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything	Le commissaire	53
42	1974	Antoine and Sebastian	Max	0
43	1974	Le Permis de conduire	Le directeur de la banque	62
44	1974	Le Charlatan		0
45	1974	Operation Lady Marlene	Le commandant Moulinot	48
46	1974	Shut Up, Gulli	The Captain	60
47	1974	Impossible Is Not French	Albert Lombard	66
48	1975	Raging Fists	Jo, bar owner	0
49	1975	The Common Man	Colin	70
50	1975	The Dangerous Mission	Le sergent-chef Lapointe	40
51	1975	The French Detective	Commissioner Pignol	68
52	1975	The Seventh Company Has Been Found	Capitaine Dumont	73
53	1976	Forget Me, Mandoline	Jean-Paul Tardu	25
54	1976	The Twelve Tasks of Asterix	Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (voice)	73
55	1976	Le Jour de gloire	Le maire	56
56	1977	Dis bonjour à la dame !..	Robert Ferry	30
57	1977	Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!	Capitaine Marcus	37
58	1977	Le Passe-muraille	Lecuyer	30
59	1978	Général... nous voilà !	Julien Berger	20
60	1979	Le Plus Heureux des trois	Marjavel	0
61	1980	Le Charlatan		0
62	1981	Le Chêne d'Allouville	Henri Brainville, mayor	56
63	1981	Signé Furax	Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue	48
64	1983	Salut la puce	Alfred	57
65	1983	Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose	(voice)	62
66	1985	Asterix vs. Caesar	Obélix (voice)	65
67	1986	Les Dégourdis de la onzième	Capitaine Cromières	0
68	1986	Le Dindon	Pinchard	40
69	1986	Asterix in Britain	Obélix (voice)	68
70	1988	To Our Late Husband	Radetsky	45
71	1988	Les Gauloises blondes	Biturix	33
72	1989	Asterix and the Big Fight	Obélix (voice)	63
73	1991	L'Huissier	The commissioner	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	Jules	0
2	1965	Seule a Paris	Paul	0
3	1967	Vidocq	Gontran Tornifon	90
4	1967	L'Amateur		0
5	1968	Les Dossiers de l'Agence O	Joseph Torrence	100
6	1968	L'Homme du Picardie	Malbosc	65
7	1972	Pot-Bouille	campardon	0
8	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
9	1984	Lucky Luke	Averell Dalton (voice)	66
10	1988	La Belle Anglaise	Raoul	0
11	1988	Palace	Le client à l'addition "à la tête du client"	67
12	1991	Nestor Burma	Commissaire Faroux	61

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