Cast
Pierre Tornade
Acting
Cast
Pierre Tornade
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-01-21
From
Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France
Died
2012-03-07
Also known as Pierre Tournadre
Biography
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.
★6.5
MOVIE1985
Asterix vs. Caesar
as Obélix (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE1968
Asterix and Cleopatra
as (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE1976
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
as Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1968
The Tattoo
as le brigadier de Montignac
★6.8
MOVIE1986
Asterix in Britain
as Obélix (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1967
The Night of the Generals
as Orderly (uncredited)
MOVIE1974
Le Charlatan
★6.8
MOVIE1971
Daisy Town
as Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
★5.2
MOVIE1966
Tender Scoundrel
as Le client du garage
★6.5
MOVIE1967
Asterix the Gaul
as Abraracourcix / le marchand de bœufs / Caius Bonus (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1964
Les Gorilles
as A police officer
★8.0
MOVIE1966
A Woman in White Revolts
as Ambulance man (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1989
Asterix and the Big Fight
as Obélix (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE1965
Les baratineurs
as Thès
★6.6
MOVIE1968
The Little Bather
as Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
★6.3
MOVIE1965
The Gendarme in New York
as Médecin de bord
★5.0
MOVIE1981
Signé Furax
as Monsieur Léon, obéliscologue
★7.3
MOVIE1969
The Brain
as Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)
★3.7
MOVIE1971
The Hideout
as Léopold
★6.5
MOVIE1959
Nina
as Un inspecteur
★6.0
MOVIE1991
L'Huissier
as The commissioner
★6.2
MOVIE1983
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
as (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1969
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Grosswiller, businessman
★6.7
MOVIE1975
The French Detective
as Commissioner Pignol
★7.3
MOVIE1973
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
as Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
★4.7
MOVIE1964
Jaloux comme un tigre
as (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1983
Salut la puce
as Alfred
★6.8
MOVIE1966
The Restaurant
as Le second maître d'hôtel
★5.0
MOVIE1967
The Oldest Profession
as The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1969
The Devil by the Tail
as Schwartz - le second complice
★5.8
MOVIE1981
Le Chêne d'Allouville
as Henri Brainville, mayor
★6.4
MOVIE1963
Bebert and the Train
as Gendarme (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1974
Le Permis de conduire
as Le directeur de la banque
★7.3
MOVIE1975
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
as Capitaine Dumont
★6.0
MOVIE1978
Général... nous voilà...!
as Julien Berger
★5.0
MOVIE1976
Forget Me, Mandoline
as Jean-Paul Tardu
★3.6
MOVIE1988
Les Gauloises blondes
as Biturix
★5.3
MOVIE1973
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
as Le commissaire
★4.0
MOVIE1977
Le Passe-muraille
as Lecuyer
★5.1
MOVIE1974
Operation Lady Marlene
as Le commandant Moulinot
★7.0
MOVIE1967
Deux Romains en Gaule
as Un ancien combattant gaulois
★7.0
MOVIE1975
The Common Man
as Colin
★5.3
MOVIE1966
Three Disordered Children
as Un agent en faction
★5.7
MOVIE1976
Le Jour de gloire
as Le maire
★6.1
MOVIE1957
Crazy in the Noodle
as Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"
★6.4
MOVIE1973
The Right of the Maddest
as Le gendarme motorisé
★6.7
MOVIE1957
That damn Amédée
as Le Magicien
★10.0
MOVIE1966
A Young World
as Le voisin père de l'enfant
★6.0
MOVIE1967
The Madman of Lab Four
as DST inspector
★8.0
MOVIE1974
Antoine and Sebastian
as Max
★5.3
MOVIE1988
To Our Late Husband
as Radetsky
★5.7
MOVIE1956
Les Truands
as Le ministre
★4.0
MOVIE1977
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
as Capitaine Marcus
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Three Men on a Horse
as Jo Gabardine
★2.8
MOVIE1977
Dis bonjour à la dame !..
as Robert Ferry
★3.7
MOVIE1965
Song of the World
★7.3
MOVIE1959
La Nuit de Tom Brown
as Le barman
★4.8
MOVIE1975
The Dangerous Mission
as Le sergent-chef Lapointe
★5.5
MOVIE1966
Funny Money
as Le gardien de prison
MOVIE1964
Le Petit Nicolas
as 'Le Bouillon'
★6.1
MOVIE1968
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Inspector
★10.0
MOVIE1975
Raging Fists
as Jo, bar owner
★6.6
MOVIE1974
Impossible Is Not French
as Albert Lombard, patron de l'Agence Lombard et beau-frère d'Antoine
★7.3
MOVIE1963
The Reluctant Spy
as An Inspector (uncredited)
MOVIE1967
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
★4.8
MOVIE1968
Beru and These Women
as Policier
★4.9
MOVIE1968
Salut Berthe !
as Father Fauvel
★6.7
MOVIE1974
Shut Up, Gulli
as The Captain
★6.3
MOVIE1969
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
as Léon , the cheated husband
MOVIE1986
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
as Capitaine Cromières
★4.0
MOVIE1986
Le Dindon
as Pinchard
★9.0
MOVIE1979
Le Plus Heureux des trois
as Marjavel
MOVIE1980