The French actor Benoît Allemane, famous for having lent his inimitable voice to Morgan Freeman, Santa Claus and Charlie the Rooster, passed away this Sunday January 5 at the age of 82.
He was one of the greatest legends of French dubbing. Whether or not you ever heard his name spoken, you inevitably knew the timbre of his deep, warm, caring and comforting voice. After almost 60 years of career in the theater, on television and therefore in the field of dubbing, the actor Benoît Allemane died this Sunday, January 5 at the age of 82.
Born in 1942 in Clermont-Ferrand, he began his career at the age of 16 on stage in small plays. Having studied theater at the National School of Strasbourg, he soon took on more ambitious projects and collaborated on several occasions with Robert Hossein.
A complete and eclectic actor, equally at ease in the theater as in front of the camera, he is mainly known to the general public for his remarkable work in the world of dubbing.
Famous for having lent his voice to Morgan Freeman in the early 90s (in Les Évadés and Impitoyable, for example), he also plays other English-speaking actors such as James Earl Jones or Brian Cox. On television, fans of the Malcolm series necessarily remember his inimitable vocal interpretation of Commander Edwin Spangler (played by Daniel von Bargen).
On the animation side, Benoît Allemane has largely contributed to rocking our childhood memories, since he notably lent his voice to Santa Claus (in television spots and at the cinema in L'Apprenti Père Noël), to Super Baloo in the eponymous series, to Charlie the Rooster in Looney Tunes and to Zeus in Disney's Hercules.
While Benoît Allemane had the opportunity to meet Morgan Freeman in the flesh during the last Monte-Carlo Festival, he was kind enough to come on the set of Voix Ouf to discuss this meeting with us, as well as the rest of his magnificent career (see above).
