Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

BernardPierre Donnadieu 2 July 1949 27 December 2010 was a French actor He made more than 100 appearances in movies and television over his career as well as in theatrical roles He was often cast as a villain criminal or psychopath Donnadieu was the French voice of many lead roles in Englishlanguage movies dubbed into French He studied theatre and literature at the Sorbonne Paris III Donnadieus earliest notable film roles came in 1976 with The Tenant by Roman Polanski and Second Chance French Si cétait à refaire lit If I Had to Do It All Over Again by Claude Lelouch The film which earned him wider recognition was Georges Lautners 1981 action thriller The Professional in which he had a major role appearing with JeanPaul Belmondo Other notable film roles were the title part in The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne and in George Sluizers The Vanishing for which Donnadieu won best acting awards at the 1989 Madrid Film Festival and the 1990 Porto Film Festival He was nominated for a best supporting actor César Award for his 1984 role as the dangerous criminal gang leader in Rue Barbare Barbarian Street His final film appearance was in 2008 in Christophe Barratiers Paris 36 released in France as Faubourg 36 Donnadieu appeared in many television and theatre productions He played historical figures such as HubertJoseph Henry in the LAffaire Dreyfus and Roger Salengro in LAffaire Salengro a television film directed by Yves Boisset with whom he regularly worked While his appearance and physique seemed to influence directors to cast him as malevolent characters he also had more sympathetic roles such as the lead in the drama Faut pas rire du bonheur in which his character has a romantic involvement with a woman played by Laura Morante His work dubbing French dialogue has included voicing characters portrayed by actors such as Kurt Russell Dennis Hopper and Ron Perlman In the theatre he was a frequent collaborator with Georges Wilson who directed him in several productions Donnadieu died from cancer on 27 December 2010 at age 61 Source Article BernardPierre Donnadieu from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA