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Death of William Pinville, cult voice-over of “Questions for a champion” on France 3
TELEVISION – He was one of the most recognizable voices on French television. William Pinville, cult voice-over of Questions for a champion, died Tuesday, confirmed this Thursday, November 21 to Parisian and at BFMTV the TV Conseil agency, responsible for communications for the France 3 game.
William Pinville appeared every day on the show to present the candidates, take stock of the prize pool or even present the gifts offered to participants – often encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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If his voice was much better known than his face, he made an appearance on the set in 2015 to replace the former host of the game Julien Lepers as a joke for April 1st. You can rewatch that moment above.
Radio, dubbing, commercials…
His voice adorned the show and accompanied viewers between 1992 and 2016. He left France 3 at the same time as Julien Lepers, dismissed by France Télévisions. Since then, it is the journalist Samuel Étienne who presents Questions for a champion, game broadcast since 1988 on television.
Originally, William Pinville was a radio host who worked for radio TSF, Pacific FM and Rire et Chansons in particular. Apart from his voice activity Questions for a champion, who occupied “25 to 50%” of his time as he declared in The Parisian in 2011, he was also doing dubbing for audio books or in advertisements.
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