He left his mark on Sunday afternoons with millions of French people, who knew his voice without necessarily knowing his face.
The actor and voice actor Bernard Tiphaine died on Tuesday, at the age of 83, his daughter Marion Tiphaine announced on social networks.
He was known for his many dubbing of American actors in English blockbusters and also in TV movies.
He was notably the French voice of Chuck Norris, whom TF1 viewers found every Sunday in the American series "Walker Texas Ranger", 203 episodes long.
Born in 1938, in Paris, Bernard Tiphaine had started in the cinema in the years 1960. He then turned in some films as an actor, in particular in "Le Feu follet" (1963), of Louis Malle, and played in many plays in the 1970s, such as "Boeing Boeing" or "Colonel Chabert".
A voice of "Ratatouille"
But the man excelled above all in the lining of English-speaking films.
His voice was recognizable in many productions across the Atlantic.
Bernard Tiphaine has notably dubbed Donald Sutherland, James Caan (in more than 20 films including “The Godfather”) and Christophe Walken (in more than 39 films).
Bernard Tiphaine was also Anto Ego in "Ratatouille".
The art of criticism.
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You surely recognized it in "The Fury of the dragon", "Expandable 2", "Missing 3", "The Godfather", "The Godfather 2", and many other productions.
But Bernard Tiphaine was also a voice actor in cartoons and video games.
From 1999 to 2003, he was the voice of Bender, the robot from the cartoon "Futurama", created by Matt Groening, to whom we owe the Simpsons.
He was also Anton Ego, the intractable food critic in “Ratatouille”.
Finally, he was also Dr. Finkelstein, in "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
