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
Most Rating	4.875
Birthday	1930-01-21
Place of Birth	Bort-les-Orgues, Corrèze, France
Also Known As	Pierre Tournadre,

Three Men on a Horse

Asterix the Gaul

Le Dindon

Asterix and Cleopatra

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

Dis bonjour à la dame !..

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!

Le Jour de gloire

The Common Man

The French Detective

The Gendarme in New York

The Devil by the Tail

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

Cette nuit-là à Bethléem

Beru and These Women

Shut Up, Gulli

Le Chêne d'Allouville

The Reluctant Spy

The Madman of Lab Four

Impossible Is Not French

Les Gorilles

The Dangerous Mission

Le Permis de conduire

Le petit Nicolas

Asterix vs. Caesar

Signé Furax

Raging Fists

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

Les Gauloises blondes

Tender Scoundrel

Général... nous voilà !

Crazy in the Noodle

Operation Lady Marlene

Forget Me, Mandoline

Bebert and the Train

A Woman in White Revolts

Les baratineurs

Song of the World

The Oldest Profession

Daisy Town

Faites donc plaisir aux amis

To Our Late Husband

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

Le Charlatan

Nina

Salut Berthe !

Jaloux comme un tigre

Le Plus Heureux des trois

Les Dégourdis de la onzième

Le Charlatan

Asterix and the Big Fight

L'Huissier

The Restaurant

Le Passe-muraille

The Little Bather

Three Disordered Children

A Strange Kind of Colonel

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

Funny Money

Salut la puce

The Night of the Generals

Antoine and Sebastian

The Tattoo

La Nuit de Tom Brown

Asterix in Britain

The Hideout

The Brain

The Right of the Maddest

Les Truands

Deux Romains en Gaule

That damn Amédée