Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Date of birth: 1949-07-02
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Bernard Donnadieu
Biography
Bernard-Pierre 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 English-language movies dubbed into French. He studied theatre and literature at the Sorbonne Paris III. Donnadieu's earliest notable film roles came in 1976 with The Tenant by Roman Polanski, and Second Chance (French: Si c'était à refaire, lit. 'If I Had to Do It All Over Again') by Claude Lelouch. The film which earned him wider recognition was Georges Lautner's 1981 action thriller, The Professional in which he had a major role, appearing with Jean-Paul Belmondo. Other notable film roles were the title part in The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne, and in George Sluizer's 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 Barratier's Paris 36 (released in France as Faubourg 36). Donnadieu appeared in many television and theatre productions. He played historical figures such as Hubert-Joseph Henry in the L'Affaire Dreyfus and Roger Salengro, in L'Affaire 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 "Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Movie Credits
The Return of Martin Guerre
1982-05-14
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B
The Vanishing
1988-10-27
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Sas
Druids
2001-01-24
In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness th
Beatrice
1987-11-11
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from Engl
Bolero
1981-05-27
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American)
Paris 36
2008-09-24
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music fro
Shadow of the Wolf
1992-03-05
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe a
L'Affaire Dreyfus
1995-05-18
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French offic
Such a Lovely Town...
1979-02-28
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery whic
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
1993-09-15
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of
Les lutteurs immobiles
1988-08-02
The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, ch
Le Pantalon
1997-12-08
Lucien is a young soldier in the French army during the First World War. Recently married and with a
Street of the Damned
1984-01-04
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron
Jeanne Devère
2011-02-10
Jeanne writes during WW II for a French clandestine journal. She is engaged to resistant leader Vict
Twice a Woman
1979-05-23
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
2007-08-29
The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and musician of the 17th century.
Fatal Lovers
1990-06-06
Following a dark story of sheep theft, Loup, nephew of Mark, the leader of a small community living
Caboose
1996-01-01
An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police inve
Urgence
1985-01-30
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because i
L'Affaire Salengro
2009-04-13
July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest
Among Wolves
1985-12-31
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists an
Blanc d'ébène
1991-01-02
The year is 1943 and the place is Balandou, a small village in Guinea. The plot revolves around Adju
Hothead
1979-02-14
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely im
The Tenant
1976-05-26
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit
The Professional
1981-10-21
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But
Run for Your Life
1997-11-10
Nicolas, 13 years old, lives in a suburb north of Paris with his mother, a cleaning lady, and his ol
Clochemerle
2004-04-06
Allons petits enfants
2005-09-17
In 1915, in the atmosphere of a French village during the First World War, we follow a teen boy who
Un petit garçon silencieux
2004-10-09
Failed Rugby player, turned medical-taxi driver, Feodor, makes friends with the strange mute child h
Judith Therpauve
1978-10-06
A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially
Flagrant désir
1986-06-11
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers mai
Jusqu'au bout
2005-01-01
Jobless after their boss fled, workers from a textile factory plan on blowing up everything if the g
Double Face
1987-04-22
The Informer
1983-04-06
The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform abou
The Death of Mario Ricci
1983-05-25
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scie
Coup de feu
1983-02-01
A César award nominated short feature.
Happiness Is No Joke
1995-12-20
What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. I
Les Condés: Policiers à Marseille
2009-01-01
Liberty Belle
1983-09-14
Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French
Max My Love
1986-10-22
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
Austerlitz, la victoire en marchant
2006-06-11
Between epic and legend, this fictional documentary recounts the longest and fastest march in the hi
Les Passeurs
2004-10-04
In the Shadow of the Wind
1986-09-25
The story is of a young man, Stevens, who returns to his native village after a five year exile caus
Dormir avec le diable
2001-01-01
Squadron
1992-10-28
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impr
Rosen-Emil
1993-08-19
The ex-gymnast and survival artist Emil falls in love with the prostitute Lissy. Through her he meet
How Much We Hated Each Other
2007-03-23
Paris, 1950. Jürgen is sent to Paris as a reporter to cover the preliminary negotiations for the est
Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983-04-20
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th
Mr. Klein
1976-09-23
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits
Miracle of Marcellino
1991-12-19
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned b
Christian
1989-09-01
Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Chr
The Body of My Enemy
1976-10-13
A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former
Du cristal à la fumée
2010-01-06
A staging of Jacques Attali's play "From Crystal to Smoke" by Daniel Mesguich.
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990-05-02
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and a
Jean Moulin
2002-07-15
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements