It was the director Lionel Auguste who announced his death on Facebook, an announcement then confirmed by the actor’s wife and children. Benoît Allemane, actor with a prolific career known for having been the French voice of the American actor Morgan Freeman, of the magician Gandalf or even for having participated in Guignols of the Info, died Sunday January 5 at the age of 82.
On television, he began his career in the mid-1960s. Over the years, he had been the French voice of Morgan Freeman from the 1990s, recalls Allociné. He had also participated for nearly twenty years in Info sourcesbetween 1998 and 2018 according to IMdb, and had dubbed a host of characters, including the magician Gandalf in the film The Hobbit: The Return of the King of Cantalreleased in 2015.
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Video game fans will also have heard his work in Warcraft III or even in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. Recently, he played Father Lataste in Magnificat or the doctor Vernon in Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe.
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