Bernard Dhéran

French actor

Bernard Dhéran
Born	Bernard Yves Raoul Dhéran (1926-06-17)17 June 1926 Dieppe, France
Died	27 January 2013(2013-01-27) (aged 86) Marrakech, Morocco
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Actor Voice actor

Bernard Yves Raoul Dhéran (17 June 1926 – 27 January 2013) was a French actor, who was active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over six decades. Dhéran was well remembered in French cinema's as the French dub of David Niven, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Ian McKellen and Leslie Nielsen. He was also recognized in dubbing as the voice of Count Dooku in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he also dubbed Christopher Lee's performance in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.^[1]

In 1961, Dhéran was inducted into Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française.

He died at his home in Marrakech on the 27 January 2013, he had originally been commissioned to record his lines for Odin in the French dub of Thor: The Dark World, but due to his death Jean-Pierre Moulin (who is the official French dub of Hopkins) recorded the lines.

Selected filmography

The Lame Devil (1948) - Un figurant (uncredited)
Beauties of the Night (1952) - L'aviateur - Le fiancé de la caissière (uncredited)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) - Beaumarchais (uncredited)
The Big Flag (1954) - Lucien Barré
Napoléon (1955) - Bourrienne (uncredited)
Men in White (1955) - Clément
The Grand Maneuver (1955) - Un officier (uncredited)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) - Voltaire jeune
If All the Guys in the World (1956) - Saint-Savin
Ce soir les jupons volent (1956) - Bobby un amoureux de Marlène
La garçonne (1957) - Max Delaume
Miss Catastrophe (1957) - Fernand
Le grand bluff (1957) - Serge Colonna
The Inspector Likes a Fight (1957) - Barat
Vacances explosives! (1957) - Monsieur Fred
La peau de l'ours (1957) - Dr. Chauvin
Quelle sacrée soirée (1957) - L'ami de Denise
Fumée blonde (1957) - Bernard Hartman
Vacanze a Ischia (1957) - Pierre Tissot
It's All Adam's Fault (1958) - Le comte Philippe de Bergen
Christine (1958) - Le captaine Lansky
Douze heures d'horloge (1959) - Serge (voice)
Soupe au lait (1959) - René Giquel - Le riche fiancé de Francine
Rue des prairies (1959) - Le juge d'instruction Moineau
Le Bossu (1959) - Narrator
Magnificent Sinner (1959) - Stéphane Ryssakov
Classe Tous Risques (1960) - Blastone (uncredited)
Captain Blood (1960) - Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Captain Fracasse (1961) - Chevalier de Vidalenc
La Belle Américaine (1961) - M. Jean
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961) - Le procureur Henri de Villefort
Les Bricoleurs (1963) - L'inspecteur de l'auto-école
Gibraltar (1964) - Harry Williams
The Gorillas (1964) - Hubert Loisif
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1964) - Président des rédempteurs de l'assassinat
Les Bons Vivants (1965) - L'avocat de la partie civile (Lucette) (segment 'Procès, Le")
Une femme en blanc se révolte (1966) - Le brigadier de gendarmerie
Le grand bidule (1967) - Morrisson
L'homme à la Buick (1968) - Martel de la Mothe
The Young Wolves (1968) - Jean-Noël
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971) - L'automobiliste / Motorist
Le silencieux (1973) - M.Chat
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle (1975) - Récitant / Narrator (French version, voice)
On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie! (1975) - Colonel Voisin
Les princes (1983) - Le mari de Jeanne
Bernadette (1988) - Docteur Dozous / Doctor Dozous
Sandino (1991) - Stimson
Loulou Graffiti (1992) - Duplessis
Ridicule (1996) - Montalieri
Stardom (2000) - French Intellectual
L'antidote (2005) - Salanches de Foiry
Hunting and Gathering (2007) - Père de Philibert