Perrette Pradier

Perrette Pradier

Born: April 17, 1938
Died: January 16, 2013
in Hanoi, Vietnam
Perrette Pradier (born Perrette Marie Mathilde Chevau; 17 April 1938 – 16 January 2013) was a French actress and dubbing director. She is best known for her work as a voice actress which earned her the nickname of "Queen" or "High Priestess" of dubbing.

Pradier was born in Hanoi, French Indochina. Two years after making her film début, in 1961, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as "Amenita" in the Sacha Guitry film, "Stop Thief." That year she gained further recognition for her role as "Constance Bonacieux" in two films based on the Three Musketeers. Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in a number of films in her native France, then was contracted for Hollywood productions that included the Fred Zinnemann film Behold a Pale Horse (1964) starring luminaries Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif. She returned to English-language filming in the Universal Studios thriller, House of Cards (1968) with Orson Welles and George Peppard.

In her long career, Perrette Pradier has also worked in live theatre, appearing in plays such as La Bonne Addresse as well as the longest running French play ever produced, Boeing Boeing. In 1994, she was the voice of "Sarafina" in the French version of the Walt Disney Studios animated feature film, The Lion King.

Pradier died of a heart attack on 16 January 2013, aged 74, in Rueil-Malmaison, France, a month after being operated for an aneurysm.

Source: Article "Perrette Pradier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Monstres... Pas si monstrueux!
Title: Monstres... Pas si monstrueux!
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: Movie
We are used to see terrifying monsters on screen... But they are not always as bad! These five short films offer an overview of the most terrible creatures on the planet, in a new light filled with tenderness and humor!
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Ernest & Celestine
Title: Ernest & Celestine
Character: Head Nurse Mouse (voice)
Released: December 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.
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Pumpkins and Old Lace
Title: Pumpkins and Old Lace
Character: Charlotte (Voix)
Released: March 3, 2011
Type: Movie
The perfect "Granny or Grandpa" poster face is what the photographer from Discra, an adult diaper company, hopes to find as he approaches a retirement home, camera in hand. A quick look at a couple of "nice old folks" and that should be it. But it's just the beginning of the story (or rather stories). While the folks he meets are a bit long in the tooth, they have a lot to say. With Pumpkins and Old Lace, Juliette Loubières joins the classic tradition of puppet animation films, creating a sincere, whimsical fairy tale with a moral that reminds us that old age is sometimes a mask guarding the treasures of our souls.
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Totally Spies! The Movie
Title: Totally Spies! The Movie
Character: Madame Scritch (voice)
Released: July 22, 2009
Type: Movie
An origin story of how three high school girls became, like, totally spies.
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The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
Title: The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
Character: Madame Purpur (voice)
Released: July 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
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The Big Bang
Title: The Big Bang
Character: Una (voice)
Released: March 6, 1987
Type: Movie
In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV.
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Title: Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
Character: Massmédia
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: TV
The Arkadians are a civilization that survived a great cataclysm and moved to the center of the earth, thriving under the power of their artificial sun, The Tehra, until one day it began to fail. In desperation, the Arkadians broke the ancient law and entered the Forbidden Archives to search for an answer. They used their special powers and created a messenger to the people above, naming her Arkana. She meets up with Matt and Rebecca, two ordinary kids from the surface world, Bic and Bac, two strange anteaters from Arkadia, and Spartakus, a mysterious warrior. Together they search the worlds of the strata for a way to save a people and possibly the world.
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Title: Lucky Luke
Character: Various voices
Released: October 20, 1984
Type: TV
Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
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Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Title: Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Character: (voice)
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
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Comme une femme
Title: Comme une femme
Character: Julie Sotto
Released: January 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself.
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Title: Les Jeux de 20 heures
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 1976
Type: TV
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
Title: Fifteen Year Old Captain
Character: Clara Marlowe (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All accept this arrangement, even Negoro - whose resentment will add treachery to circumstances already difficult to take the ship to safe harbour. To a point the task may prove impossible...
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Milady
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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Title: Le Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer
Character: sylvie
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
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Title: Le Temps de vivre... Le Temps d'aimer
Character: Sylvie
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
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Céleste
Title: Céleste
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
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La Brune que voilà
Title: La Brune que voilà
Character: Anne-Marie
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
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House of Cards
Title: House of Cards
Character: Jeanne-Marie
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
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Judoka-Secret Agent
Title: Judoka-Secret Agent
Character: Dominique Berg
Released: July 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Anne-Marie
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: Si Perrault m'était conté
Character: Carabine
Released: January 3, 1966
Type: TV
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That Man in Istanbul
Title: That Man in Istanbul
Character: Elisabeth Furst
Released: August 11, 1965
Type: Movie
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
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L'amour à la chaîne
Title: L'amour à la chaîne
Character: Corinne
Released: August 11, 1965
Type: Movie
Catherine Guérande (Valeria Ciangottini), a 19-year-old attractive Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love affair. She did not count on Pornotropos (Jean Yanne), a brutal racketeer who runs the profitable business of model agencies, cabarets, and camping sites, backed by Thanatos (Jean-Marie Fertey), his brother, who runs the mugging and murder side of their business. Pornotropos is not taking it well that a freelancer is around reducing his profits, and he sets his girls to harass and beat her up. Catherine does not take his mistreatment and moves to another brothel. But luck has it that an old man (Roger Karl) dies in her room, and that he was the owner of a marketing agency. Paul (Jacques Destoop), a young and handsome executive in his company, decides to investigate the shady causes of death of his late boss, and when Paul meets Catherine it's love at first sight.
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Title: OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Character: Consuela Moroni
Released: July 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
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Behold a Pale Horse
Title: Behold a Pale Horse
Character: Maria, Hussy
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Title: Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Character: Lisa Lambert
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
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Blague dans le coin
Title: Blague dans le coin
Character: Betty
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
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Young Girls of Good Families
Title: Young Girls of Good Families
Character: Catherine
Released: July 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez
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Crime Does Not Pay
Title: Crime Does Not Pay
Character: Hélène
Released: July 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
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The Burning Court
Title: The Burning Court
Character: Lucie Desgrez
Released: March 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
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La colère
Title: La colère
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment of "Les sept péchés capitaux")
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: La Speakerine (segment "La colère")
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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The Game of Truth
Title: The Game of Truth
Character: Florence Geder
Released: November 26, 1961
Type: Movie
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Title: Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Character: Constance Bonacieux
Released: October 25, 1961
Type: Movie
To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Milady de Winter kidnaps both D'Artagnan and Constance, in order to spur a war between the French and the English, as per the Cardinal's wish.
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The Fighting Musketeers
Title: The Fighting Musketeers
Character: Constance Bonacieux
Released: October 4, 1961
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.
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Paris Loves
Title: Paris Loves
Character: Françoise Morel
Released: February 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
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The Nabob Affair
Title: The Nabob Affair
Character: Amenita
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Serge, alias Count Fornari, is hired by a mysterious employer to try to steal the Nabob, an exceptionally valuable diamond that Jeannette, alias Aménita (Perrette Pradier), the companion of a billionaire, wears as a locket. She covets the diamond and steals it from the safe. About to be caught in the act, she keeps it hidden in a handkerchief in her hand and manages to conceal it in Serge's pocket during the hotel ball. When she rejoins the billionaire, he asks her to open her hand, but the diamond is gone. The result is a chase full of misunderstandings and twists and turns between the three protagonists.
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The Wretches
Title: The Wretches
Character: Louise Martin
Released: May 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering from the loss of their only son in an automobile accident that happened some time in the distant past. Thelma tends to drown her sorrows in alcohol, while Jess is introspected and morose. After they hire a maid to help out with the housework, she falls for the taciturn Jess. Her interest seems to be only a simple attraction, yet appearances, as it turns out, are deceiving.
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There Is the Brunette
Title: There Is the Brunette
Character: Sonia
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Germain Vignon is a used car dealer whose eloquence is such that he could sell the lousiest banger to a guy that does not even have a driver's license. He is not bad either at chatting up girls. Indeed, since his blonde wife left him, Germain has seduced no fewer than four brunettes. And as, besides being a ladies'man, he has a heart of gold, Germain is unable to break up with any of them, hence a complicated sentimental life. But this delicate balance is threatened the day an outraged stranger comes to him and orders him to leave his wife alone. One small problem is that the man has forgotten to specify the name of the lady in question. So, which of his four mistresses - Christine, Sophie, Anne-Marie or Sonia - should he leave?
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV