The actor Lionel Auguste announced with sadness the disappearance of his friend Benoît Allemane this Sunday, January 5. Famous for his dubbing talents, he was 82 years old with a sixty-year career in the theater. A look back at the long and rich career of this dubbing legend.
Benoît Allemane in theater, television and cinema
Since he was 16, Benoît Allemane had worked as an actor in the theater, where he collaborated around ten times with Robert Hossein. His last piece Who killed Takehiro?was launched in 2023. He was the adapter, director and main actor. A few roles in the cinema have sometimes punctuated his career: we have notably seen him in Visitors 2 in 1998 and in I accuse by Roman Polanski in 2019. On television, he appeared on France 3 in 2007 in the soap opera More beautiful life and the series Host familybut also on TF1 in detective series Julie Lescaut in 2002 and Alice Nevers, the judge is a woman on TF1 in 2019. Note that during his career, he contributed to Info sources on Canal+, or took the microphone on Radio-Monte-Carlo to present the show The whole truth from 1975 to 1980 then co-hosting Signs of destiny with Françoise Hardy.
Unforgettable dubbing on all screens
But it is in dubbing that Benoît Allemane made his mark on the general public, by iconically playing Morgan Freeman in around fifty feature films since 1992. In June 2024, he was finally able to meet the American actor in person at the Festival of Monte Carlo. He was also the voice of actors James Earl Jones, Brian Cox, but also of the characters Edwin Spangler, the commander in the cult sitcom MalcolmGellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 1, Ugluk in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towersthe narrator of Ice Age 5: The Laws of the Universe: the narrator … Benoît Allemane also lent his voice to the character of Zeus in the famous cartoon HerculeBaloo in the animated series derived from Jungle Book. or even Charlie Le Coq in Looney Tunes. But above all, he was THE voice of Santa Claus in France in most advertisements, and even on the short-lived television channel La Chaîne du Père Noël or in the cartoons Santa’s Apprentice in 2010 then in the sequel entitled Santa’s Apprentice and the Magic Snowflake in 2013. We also owe the voice of the character Alex Louis Armstrong in the animated universe Fullmetal Alchemist. In video games, we could hear it in 2006 in Kingdom Hearts 2 or in the shoes of Zavok in the games Sonic the Hedgehog.
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