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...
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Complete Filmography

L'Huissier
1991
as The commissioner

Asterix and the Big Fight
1989
as Obélix (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 ...

Les Gauloises blondes
1988
as Biturix
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.

To Our Late Husband
1988
as Radetsky
The widow of a thief learns that the chateau she lives in has a fortune in gold hidden somewhere.

Asterix in Britain
1986
as Obélix (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 ...

Le Dindon
1986
as Pinchard

Les Dégourdis de la onzième
1986
as Capitaine Cromières

Asterix vs. Caesar
1985
as Obélix (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...

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

Salut la puce
1983
as Alfred
Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas.

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

Le Chêne d'Allouville
1981
as Henri Brainville, mayor
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deput...
Le Charlatan
1980

Le Plus Heureux des trois
1979
as Marjavel

Général... nous voilà !
1978
as Julien Berger
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.

Le Passe-muraille
1977
as Lecuyer
A man learns one night that he can walk through walls, and uses this skill to get back at a nasty new boss, to rob banks, and to romance an overly pro...

Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
1977
as Capitaine Marcus
At a French military outpost, a group of lackadaisical servicemen find plenty of time to make trouble, enjoy nature and pursue beautiful women.

Dis bonjour à la dame !..
1977
as Robert Ferry
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,...

Le Jour de gloire
1976
as Le maire
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one d...

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976
as Abraracourcix / Assurancetourix (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...

Forget Me, Mandoline
1976
as Jean-Paul Tardu
The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. ...

The French Detective
1975
as Commissioner Pignol
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty a...

The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975
as Capitaine Dumont
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.

The Dangerous Mission
1975
as Le sergent-chef Lapointe
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.

The Common Man
1975
as Colin
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where th...

Raging Fists
1975
as Jo, bar owner
Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to ...

Impossible Is Not French
1974
as Albert Lombard
Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Ha...

Shut Up, Gulli
1974
as The Captain
A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.

Operation Lady Marlene
1974
as Le commandant Moulinot
Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the ...

Le Charlatan
1974

Le Permis de conduire
1974
as Le directeur de la banque
Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his b...

Antoine and Sebastian
1974
as Max
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him ...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
as Le commissaire
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfa...

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973
as Capitaine Dumont, commandant de la 7ème compagnie
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting p...

The Right of the Maddest
1973
as Le gendarme motorisé
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see t...

Daisy Town
1971
as Averell Dalton / Un parieur (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...

The Hideout
1971
as Léopold
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the c...

Three Men on a Horse
1969
as Jo Gabardine
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
1969
as Grosswiller, businessman
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of ...

The Brain
1969
as Belgian Soldier in Armored Car (uncredited)
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know ...

The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Schwartz - le second complice
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of th...

Faites donc plaisir aux amis
1969
as Léon , the cheated husband
Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South...

Asterix and Cleopatra
1968
as (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...

Beru and These Women
1968
as Policeman
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 Father Fauvel
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...

The Tattoo
1968
as Brigadier
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.

A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968
as Un inspecteur
Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. But the arrival of a rival who signs his crimes "Th...

The Little Bather
1968
as Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which desi...
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
1967

Asterix the Gaul
1967
as (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 Madman of Lab Four
1967
as DST inspector
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss,...

The Oldest Profession
1967
as The Mover (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") (uncredited)
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
as Un ancien combattant gaulois
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 Night of the Generals
1967
as Orderly (uncredited)
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, tw...

Tender Scoundrel
1966
as Le client du garage
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes...

The Restaurant
1966
as Le second maître d'hôtel
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Three Disordered Children
1966
as Un agent en faction
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.

A Woman in White Revolts
1966
as Ambulance man (uncredited)
Preparing her gynecology thesis, Claude Sauvage, at the urging of a village doctor, Vincent Ferrière, agrees to replace him for a few days. During thi...

A Young World
1966
as Le voisin père de l'enfant
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abort...

Funny Money
1966
as Le gardien de prison
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a ...

The Gendarme in New York
1965
as Médecin de bord
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.

Song of the World
1965
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell ...

Les baratineurs
1965
as Thès
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and M...

Les Gorilles
1964
as A police officer
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.

Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
as (uncredited)
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move, an...

Le petit Nicolas
1964
as 'Le Bouillon'
At school, Nicolas is falsely accused of misbehaving and is expelled. On school photo day, Nicolas will try to prove his innocence, with disastrous co...

Bebert and the Train
1963
as Gendarme (uncredited)
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girl...

The Reluctant Spy
1963
as An Inspector (uncredited)
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome pain...

La Nuit de Tom Brown
1959
as Le barman
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...

Nina
1959
as Un inspecteur
A husband plans to shoot the man having an affair with his wife, but both come to realise their desire to escape the tyrannical woman in their lives.

That damn Amédée
1957
as Le Magicien
Mr. Placard, impresario of shock, lost the headliner of his show, Elia Tarti. Amédée introduces himself, he can highlight his gifts of fantasy. Random...

Crazy in the Noodle
1957
as Maître d'hôtel at "La belle vie"
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do th...

Les Truands
1956
as Le ministre
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a h...