Claude Bertrand

Claude Bertrand

Born: March 24, 1919
Died: December 14, 1986
in Greasque, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Claude Bertrand (24 March 1919 – 14 December 1986) was a French film, television and voice over actor.

In a career that has spanned four decades, Bertrand was best known in French film and television as a voice over actor. He was the French dub for Roger Moore, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Bud Spencer and Burt Lancaster. He also shared his voice in animation, he provided the voice of Baloo in the French version of The Jungle Book, O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood. He also voiced Captain Haddock in Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks.

He also dubbed Roger Moore into French in the James Bond series between 1973 and 1985.

Bertrand died in 1986 after suffering from cancer.

Source: Article "Claude Bertrand (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Claude Bertrand...

Le Maître d'école
Title: Le Maître d'école
Character: Charlotte's father
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: Movie
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Title: Une robe noire pour un tueur
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
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Title: Once Upon a Time... Man
Character: Le Teigneux
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: TV
Once Upon a Time… Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time. The series' opening and ending title sequences famously used Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as the main title theme music. Shortening the piece to only 2 minutes in length, the introduction uses the very beginning, which jumps into the start of the middle section and finally the dramatic ending to coincide with the destruction of Earth at the end of the intro.
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Sexuella
Title: Sexuella
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Sex comedy based on a novel by Jacques Chaumelle and the director.
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Title: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Character: Un sénateur / Le centurion (voice)
Released: June 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
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Police Python 357
Title: Police Python 357
Character: Le marchand de cochons
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay, who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese, who is handicapped. Sylvia is found murdered, and Ferrot is assigned to investigate; Ferrot is convinced that Ganay killed Sylvia because she wanted to end their relationship, but to his dismay, Ferrot discovers that the killer has placed a number of false clues that point the blame toward Ferrot.
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Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!
Title: Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!
Character: Chief M'Bulu (voice)
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her with only his faithful friend Flicka at his side. He heads for that darkest of areas
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Porthos
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
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The Refusal
Title: The Refusal
Character: Alsatian
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.
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Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
Title: Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
Character: Capitaine Haddock (voice)
Released: December 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Tintin is sent to guard Professor Calculus, who has invented a machine that can duplicate anything, and is staying in a village near the border of Syldavia and Bodouria. Rastapopoulous, an infamous and ruthless international criminal, tries to lure Calculus and Tintin away by kidnapping two children, who live nearby, in order to get his clutches on the machine.
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Love in the Afternoon
Title: Love in the Afternoon
Character: The Male Student
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
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Title: Omer Pacha
Character: Peyrac
Released: April 14, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Commissaire Haeberlin
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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And Soon the Darkness
Title: And Soon the Darkness
Character: Lassal
Released: September 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
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Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
Title: Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
Character: Captain Haddock (voice)
Released: December 13, 1969
Type: Movie
When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.
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Tintin et la SGM
Title: Tintin et la SGM
Character: Capitaine Haddock
Released: April 30, 1969
Type: Movie
This short animated advertising cartoon promotes the Société Générale des Minerais belges, a Belgian mining company. Tintin follows the company endeavours in Belgium, Congo, the USA, France and Japan.
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The Gendarme Gets Married
Title: The Gendarme Gets Married
Character: Poussin Bleu
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
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Soldier Martin
Title: Soldier Martin
Character: Galland
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
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The Knife to the Throat
Title: The Knife to the Throat
Character: Machecoul
Released: November 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.
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The Secret of Mayerling
Title: The Secret of Mayerling
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1949
Type: Movie
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.
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L'échafaud peut attendre
Title: L'échafaud peut attendre
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.