Biography
Roger Carel (born Roger Bancharel; 14 August 1927 – 11 September 2020) was a French actor and voice talent, known for his recurring film roles as Asterix, the French voice of Star Wars' C-3PO, and the French voice of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh. He has also dubbed David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. He also voiced Wally Gator, Mickey Mouse, Yogi Bear, Kermit the Frog, Heathcliff, Foghorn Leghorn, ALF and many other famous characters in French.
Known For
Complete Filmography

On a volé ma VF
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of st...

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
2014
as Astérix (voice)
In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built nex...

Asterix and the Vikings
2006
as Astérix / Idéfix (voice)
Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring...

L'Année des Guignols - Goodbye Louis XVI !
2005
as (voix)

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...

René Goscinny, profession : Humoriste
1998
as Self
Documentary detailing the life and career of the late René Goscinny, creator of Asterix.

My Man
1996
as Passerby with a hat
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...

Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
1994
as Anselme, le curé
In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.

Polly West est de retour
1993
as Anselme, vicar
Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic actr...

The 1001 Gags of Spiff & Hercules
1993
as Busard (voice)
Hercule wishes to be recognized at last as the star that he always was. He does not accept that Pif, this fleabag, can delight stardom. He decides, th...

Honorin et la Loreleï
1992
as Anselme, le curé
During the inter-war period, a young German woman and her little girl arrive in a peaceful Provencal village. They have come to find the father of the...
L'Amant de ma sœur
1991
as Léonard
Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.

The Cocottes
1991
as Anselme, le curé
A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these gorg...

Héloïse
1991
as Dr Mérindol
Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.

1001 Nights
1990
as The Great Vizier
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to ...

Les 1001 Nuits (Version intégrale)
1990
as Le grand vizir

Love Comedy
1989
as Le docteur
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de Franc...

Asterix and the Big Fight
1989
as Astérix (voice)
Due to an unfortunate accident involving Obelix throwing a menhir, Getafix the druid not only loses his memory, but goes completely mad. Now deprived ...

La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
1989
as Don Gusman Brid'oison
A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.

Les Gauloises blondes
1988
as Cuchulain
In the year 100, the village of Lutèce was invaded by a Roman troop. The Gauls decide to send their naked women to confuse them.

Velvet Paws
1987
as Le commissaire Harnika
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sih...

Le diable rose
1987
as General Von Goteborg
Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called "Le Diable Rose" in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by bo...

Asterix in Britain
1986
as Astérix (voice)
One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm ...

Asterix vs. Caesar
1985
as Astérix (voice)
Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnap...

The Defective Detective
1984
as Jerry Logan (voice)
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has r...

Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
as Général Müller, remplacé par Spontz
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do ...

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
1983
as Min Li Foo / Mathia Bones (voice)
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.

Y a-t-il un pirate sur l'antenne ?
1983
as Commissaire Keller
Six young people decide to create their own television channel to compete with the official channels where they were not admitted. Canal soleil is the...

One Deadly Summer
1983
as Henri, aka 'Henri IV', owner of Pin-Pon
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone no...

L'émir préfère les blondes
1983
as Sam Moreau
Emir Fattal is on holiday in France, being pursued by an international criminal, MacGorell. He moved to a musical impresario, Sam Moreau, who did not ...

Rookies Run Amok 2
1983
as Kolonel von Berg
The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.

Revenge of the Humanoids
1983
as Maestro / Colonel Pierre / Métro / le Nabot (voice)
Around the year 3000, Pierrot, Psi and the robot Metro, inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security. When they come under ...

Signé Furax
1981
as Grigor Sokolodovenko
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

le vol d'Icare
1980
as Surget

Umbrella Coup
1980
as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. H...

The Missing Link
1980
as Additional Voices
A woman in prehistoric times gives birth to twins, one of whom is rejected by the tribe and adopted by a brontosaurus and a talkative pterodactyl.

Jupiter's Thigh
1980
as Sacharias, le conservateur
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes...

Les Phallocrates
1980
as The asylum director
A fraudulent builder has planned to spend a few of days in Switzerland to hide his hoard in a swiss bank at once. Unfortunately an inspector of the In...

The Other One's Mug
1979
as Roland Fevereau
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious...

La Grâce
1979
as Robert Fouchard
Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of...

Féfé de Broadway
1979
as Étienne Demarcy
Maria, a great tragedian, has desires for radical change in her career. Singing, dancing, changing registers and getting younger: it has become an obs...

Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
1978
as Min Li Foo / Mathias Bones (voice)
The story opens in a Western saloon, where a young musician with a banjo begins to tell a tale of Lucky Luke and his sworn enemies the Dalton brothers...

Nazis dans le rétro
1977

Dis bonjour à la dame !..
1977
as PTT inspector
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel,...

La Grande Récré
1976
as Le Pharmacien

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976
as Astérix / Caius Pupus / Idefix / Sénateur (voice)
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with...

Les Grands Moyens
1976
as Commissaire Honoré Compana
The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunt...

Cigalon
1975
as Le riche client
Cigalon, a restaurant owner in a small village in Provence, refuses to serve customers... And suddenly Mrs. Toffi, his former laundress, opens a resta...

Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!
1975
as Charles of the Pits #2 (voice)
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a ba...

The Dangerous Mission
1975
as Oberst Strumpf
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.
Around the World in 80 Days
1975
Following a bet, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout set off on an incredible journey around the globe. But the police suspect them of committing the heist ...

Ubu Roi
1974
Pere Ubu, a monster of stupidity, is incapable of the slightest intelligence. But his bestial force is manipulated by a diabolical creature: Mother Ub...

Clockwork Bananas
1974
as Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to...

Bedmania
1974
as Le lit (voice)
A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo,...

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
as Alberto Sopranelli
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, ...

The Big Store
1973
as Le commissaire-priseur
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big...

L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
1973
as Maître Bornet
Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.

Joe and the Sleeping Beauty
1973
as Bzz (voice)
The Queen Bee, Honeyflower is placed under a spell by One Sting Maude, a witch from the tsetse family, jealous of the Queen Bee’s beauty. Bzz, the Bee...

Tom Thumb
1972
Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his ...

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
1972
as Sammy
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a...

Églantine
1972
as Ernest
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his family. He is delighted to see his grandmother Eglanti...

Daisy Town
1971
as Le croquemort / Le vautour / Le lieutenant de cavalerie / Le capitaine de cavalerie / Le vieux (voice)
When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this v...

One Is Always Too Good to Women
1971
as Frank Dillon
This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have tak...

Et qu'ça saute !
1970
as Fedorovitch
A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to dec...

A Golden Widow
1969
as Aristophane Percankas
A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or ...

Clerambard
1969
as Vicar
When a cruel man is visited by Saint Francis and convinced to change his ways, his family believes him to be insane and locks him away in order to sel...

Would-Be Gentleman
1968
as Le maître de musique
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class ...

Asterix and Cleopatra
1968
as Astérix (voice)
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius...

A Flea in Her Ear
1968
as M. Plommard
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Beru and These Women
1968
as Maximilien Bernal
Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious...

Salut Berthe !
1968
as Camberlin
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to disc...
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
1967

Asterix the Gaul
1967
as Astérix (voice)
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the ...

The Two of Us
1967
as Victor
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War ...

Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
as Astérix (voice)
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the...

The Saint Lies in Wait
1966
as Le professeur (uncredited)
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for hi...

The Big Swag
1965
as Mr. Souvestre, station chief
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé ...

Ruy Blas
1965
as Le laquais

Don Quijote
1965
as Sancho Panza

Death of a Killer
1964
as Le patron du café
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Lucia...

The Blockhead Fair
1963
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.

Ophélia
1963
as un employé
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

Who Stole the Body?
1963
as Count of La Bigle
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an e...

The Empire of Night
1962
as J.J. Krosse
Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret si...

The Marriage of Figaro
1961
as Don Guzman Brid'Oison
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in kee...

Auguste
1961
as Albert, the brother-in-law
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet ...

Croquemitoufle
1959
as Maurice
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties ca...

La Nuit de Tom Brown
1959
as L'abbé Jefferson
How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night whe...

Notre petite ville
1959
as Le professeur Willard
When Grover's Corner, a small, uneventful American town, becomes a mirror to an entire society. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American theate...

The Little Professor
1958
as A city hall employee
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He ma...

The Queen of Spades
1958
as Yvan - le second buveur
An adaptation of the eponymous fantasy novella by Alexander Pushkin. It tells the story of the gambling mania that seizes a young Russian officer, Her...

Incognito
1958
as Agent
Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for ...

Honey, Scare Me
1958
as Joseph Kramer aka Doctor Kougloff
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams...

The Tricyclist
1957
as Peasant
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in...

Le quadrille des diamants
1957
as Van Denhart

A Friend of the Family
1957
as Tuner
Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will ...

Meeting in Paris
1956
as The cop in front of the Ritz (uncredited)
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the ca...