
Pierre Tornade
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.
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Acting (72 movies)

Three Men on a Horse
1969

Asterix the Gaul
1967

Le Dindon
1986

Asterix and Cleopatra
1968

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973

Dis bonjour à la dame !..
1977

Le Jour de gloire
1976

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
1977

The Common Man
1975

The French Detective
1975

The Gendarme in New York
1965

The Devil by the Tail
1969

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
1983

Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
1967

Beru and These Women
1968

Shut Up, Gulli
1974

Le Chêne d'Allouville
1981

The Reluctant Spy
1963

The Madman of Lab Four
1967

Impossible Is Not French
1974

Les Gorilles
1964

The Dangerous Mission
1975

Le Permis de conduire
1974

Le petit Nicolas
1964

Asterix vs. Caesar
1985

Signé Furax
1981

Raging Fists
1975

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973

Les Gauloises blondes
1988

Tender Scoundrel
1966

Général... nous voilà !
1978

Crazy in the Noodle
1957

Operation Lady Marlene
1974

Forget Me, Mandoline
1976

Bebert and the Train
1963

A Woman in White Revolts
1966

Les baratineurs
1965

Song of the World
1965

The Oldest Profession
1967

Daisy Town
1971

Faites donc plaisir aux amis
1969

To Our Late Husband
1988

The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975

Nina
1959

Salut Berthe !
1968

Jaloux comme un tigre
1964

Le Plus Heureux des trois
1979

Les Dégourdis de la onzième
1986

Le Charlatan
1974

Asterix and the Big Fight
1989

L'Huissier
1991

The Restaurant
1966

Le Passe-muraille
1977

The Little Bather
1968

A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968

Three Disordered Children
1966

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
1969

Funny Money
1966

Salut la puce
1983

The Night of the Generals
1967

Antoine and Sebastian
1974

The Tattoo
1968

La Nuit de Tom Brown
1959

Asterix in Britain
1986

The Hideout
1971

The Brain
1969

The Right of the Maddest
1973

Les Truands
1956

Deux Romains en Gaule
1967

That damn Amédée
1957

A Young World
1966
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