Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Bernard- Pierre Donnadieu ( born July 2, 1949 in Paris, † December 27, 2010 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines ) was a French actor and voice actor.

Life

Donnadieu studied literature and theater at the University of Paris III ( Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle ) in Paris.

In 1975, he played in the theater company of Robert Hossein in Reims, including the pieces House of Bernarda Alba and night shelter; his partners were Gérard Desarthe and the young Isabelle Adjani. In the further course of his career, the later mainly focused on film and television, Donnadieu always returned to the theater stage. He played in November 1995 in the world premiere of the play Mardi ( Tuesday ) by Edward Bond at the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris. In 1999, he embodied, under the direction of Georges Wilson, the merchant LoPachin in a production of the comedy The Cherry Orchard in Paris; his associates were George Wilson (as Leonid Gayev ) and Marina Vlady (as landowner Ranjewskaja ). In 2008, he was seen at the Paris Théâtre du Rond-Point in the piece you cristal à la fumée de Jacques Attali. In 2008 and 2009 he played theater at the National Theatre in Nice.

In the cinema, he was seen in the mid- 1970s, first in partially tiny supporting roles in films by renowned directors, including as a bartender in The Tenant by Roman Polanski, as Claude Blame in A touch of tenderness by Claude Lelouch, as crooks in the thriller The body of My Enemy by Henri Verneuil, a café owner in the romantic drama My first love and as a teacher in life is a novel by Alain Resnais.

His first real movie role, he starred in the action film The Professional, where he took over the role of the sub- inspector Farges as an opponent of Jean -Paul Belmondo. In 1982 he was in the period film The Return of Martin Guerre, the title character of the missing soldiers Martin Guerre. In the 1980s, he was often occupied in the cinema as a brutal villain and criminal, among other things, barbare on the side of Bernard Giraudeau, as diabolical crime boss in the crime drama Rue (1984); for this role in 1985 he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the César. In this role he also embodied the trade " Angel of Death " Malaggione in the spy thriller The (1983 ) 1988 or the psychopathic father Raymond Lemorne disappeared in the thriller The Vanishing. In the historical film The Passion of Beatrice ( 1987) embodied Donnadieu, directed by Bertrand Tavernier the inwardly torn knights and generals François de Corte Mart, which fails to process his traumatic youth experiences and tried as a brutal father, the purity of his daughter (Julie Delpy ) to preserve.

In the 1990s, Donnadieu took over also sympathetic roles, such as the Israeli molecular biologist Dr. Eli Kaplan in the miniseries, but with the clowns, the tears came from a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel, lovers and often historical figures. He was Charlemagne in a French television documentary; he embodied Mirabeau in the television series petticoats of the Revolution (1989 ), the Lieutenant Colonel Henry in the television film The Dreyfus Affair (1995), Napoleon Bonaparte in the TV movie Austerlitz, Napoleon's long march to victory (2006), the European politician Jean Monnet in the TV movie Nous nous sommes tant Haïs (2007) and the French politician Roger Salengro in the TV movie L'affaire Salengro ( 2009).

He had his last film role in 2008 in the film drama Paris, Paris - Monsieur Pigoil on the road to happiness as a real estate broker Galapiat. In 2010 he played Hermann Goering in a television adaptation of the play you cristal à la fumée; a role that had already played the Donnadieu on stage before.

Donnadieu was very active as a voice actor in France. He lent his voice among other things, Harvey Keitel, Dennis Hopper, Kurt Russell, Ron Perlman and Manfred Zapatka. In the animated movie Cars, he said the role of the old race car Doc Hudson in the French dubbed version.

Donnadieu died at the age of 61 years near Versailles prostate cancer. His daughter, Ingrid Donnadieu is also an actress.

Filmography (selection)