actor Benoît Allemane is dead

He gave a legendary French voice to Morgan Freeman. The actor Benoît Allemane died this Sunday, January 5, 2025. It is the director Lionel Auguste who announced it on Facebook, specifying that he “had just celebrated his 82nd birthday”.

“Great actor, immensely popular voice, great gentleman, and modestly, handsome and gentle friend who had given me the honor and pleasure of participating in my three films,” he wrote on social networks.

Trained in theater

Born on December 28, 1942 in Clermont-Ferrand, Benoît Allemane died after almost 60 years of career in the theater (with more than sixty plays to his credit), on television, and in dubbing.

Benoît Allemane began his career on the stage as an amateur at 16, then studied theater at the National School of Strasbourg. He then collaborated on several occasions with the director Robert Hossein.

Star Trek, Malcolm and “The Guignols”

In the 1990s, he notably lent his voice to Morgan Freeman (The Escapees, Ruthless…), which he will double in a total of 47 films. He was also able to meet the American actor during the last Monte-Carlo Festival, underlines the specialized site AlloCiné.

Benoît Allemane also did the voice of Michael Dorn (in several Star Trek), or other actors like James Earl Jones or Brian Cox. He also played Commander Edwin Spangler in the television series Malcolm.

The actor also played the voice of Santa Claus on French television and in the cinema. For Disney, he did that of Zeus in Hercule. But also that of Charlie the Rooster in Les Looney Tunes or even Space Jam.

Voiceover for numerous documentaries and commercials, Benoît Allemane participated in the “Guignols de l’info” of Canal+.

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