François Pacôme, the French voice of Barney Stinson in “How I met your mother”, has died

“Maria must have been waiting for him up there” wrote a user on X (formerly Twitter) this Sunday. His comment comes following the publication Jean-François Guyot, journalist at AFP, who announced on Saturday the death of François Pacôme whose voice was well known since he dubbed many characters in series or films.

Aged 59, he died on Friday November 1st. “of illness” specifies the journalist's tweet.

Voice actor and actor

François Pacôme was notably the French voice for several years of the essential Barney Stinson, played by actor Patrick Neil Harris in the series How I met your mother. According to TéléLoisirs, he also lent his voice to characters in Seven at home, Friends, Stargate SG-1, FBI: Missing, Olive and Tom and Monk. Trained at the Florent course, he also appeared on stage or in front of the camera in French series like Navarro or Under the sun.

Orphaned for several years, he was the son of two actors: Serge Bourrier, who died in 2017, and Maria Pacôme, who died in 2018. When his mother died, he revealed on RTL that the latter, knowing she was doomed by cancer, had asked him to help him die. Which he couldn't do. “ It was long, painful and not stylish. We need real reflection on the end of assisted life, because there, we are very far from dignity and humanity. he confided in the face of the ban on assisted suicide in France.