Dominique Paturel

Dominique Paturel (born April 3, 1931 in Le Havre ) is a French actor.

After training as an actor in Paris, he was engaged on various stages in the French capital from 1955. He often played at the Théâtre National Populaire , mostly directed by Jean Vilar ( The Miser , The Unstoppable Rise of Arturo Ui ) and Jean-Louis Barrault .

Dominique Paturel made his film debut in 1960 in Le Capitan by André Hunebelle in the role of a young nobleman from the provinces. His first movie starring role was given in the episode Der Zorn in the episode film The Seven Deadly Sins (1962), followed by another episode film ( The Devil and the Ten Commandments ) . Dominique Paturel was often cast in leading roles in the mid-1960s: He was the star of the agent film FBI Agent Cooper - The Tex case by Maurice Labro and was the leading actor as Philippe in the psychological thriller Incident on the Riviera .

In addition to his films, Dominique Paturel was particularly popular in the 1960s as a leading actor in several television series. In addition to his Lorin in Le chevalier de Maison Rouge , the Anselme de Galoubet in Le trompette de la Bérésina and the Chaverny in The Adventures of the Chevalier de Lagardère , all of which are adventure series, he played the main male role of the young husband Dominique in the series Course for Marital Happiness . His most popular role at the time was that of D'Artagnan in the miniseries D'Artagnan in 1969 .

In the 1970s he mainly shot for television, for example as Karl Neuberger, hero of the mystery series Pour Vermeer . He had his rare film roles as one of the three Pygmalions of the young Juliette ( Claude Jade ) in Jacques Nahum's Maître Pygmalion (1975) and as Maître Rhune alongside Annie Girardot in André Cayatte's Indictment: Murder (1978). In the 80s, his cinema roles became rarer after his Ralph in Claude Goretta's The Denial and he shot almost exclusively for television, for example in a few guest roles on the series Commissioner Moulin . He also starred in television series such as Sommergewitter (1989) and Die große Kapriole (1989). His later cinema roles include the supporting role of boxing coach Lucien Roupp in La vie en rose (La Môme) (2007).

Dominique Paturel has often been the narrator's voice since the early 1970s, for example in the films Love for Cash , The Preoccupied Girls , and La maffia du plaisir . He was also the voice of Baron Münchhausen in the cartoon The Baron von Münchhausen . From then on he also lent his voice as a voice actor to the actors Terence Hill and Michael Caine . He was also George Peppard's voice on The A-Team and Larry Hagman's voice on Dallas .

Filmography (selection)

• 1960: My sword for the king (Le Capitan)
• 1962: The Seven Deadly Sins (Les Sept Péchés capitaux)
• 1962: The Devil and the Ten Commandments (Le Diable et les Dix Commandements)
• 1963: Mon oncle Benjamin (TV movie)
• 1963: The third concert ( Le troisième concerto , TV film)
• 1963: FBI Agent Cooper - The Tex Case (Coplan prend des risques)
• 1963: La Foire aux cancres
• 1963: Le chevalier de Maison Rouge (TV series)
• 1965: Incident on the Riviera (Le Faux Pas)
• 1965: Course for Marital Happiness ( Le bonheur conjugal , TV series)
• 1966: Le trompette de la Bérésina (TV series)
• 1967: The Adventures of the Chevalier de Lagardère (TV series)
• 1969: D'Artagnan
• 1972: François Gaillard (TV series)
• 1972: Les chemins de fer (TV movie)
• 1973: Pour Vermeer
• 1975: Maître Pygmalion
• 1977: Research dans l'intérêt des familles (TV series)
• 1978: Indictment: murder (L'amour en question)
• 1978: Les amours sous la Révolution: Les amants de Thermidor (TV movie)
• 1981: The Denial (La Provinciale)
• 1984: Hélas, Alice est lasse (TV movie)
• 1989: Summer thunderstorm ( Orages d'été , TV series)
• 1989: The great caper ( La grande cabriole , TV series)
• 1991: The Millionaire ( La Milliardaire , TV movie)
• 1996: Cancoon (TV series)
• 2004: Vipère au poing
• 2007: La vie en rose (La Môme)
• 2011: Carré blanc

Web links

• Dominique Paturel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Photo Dominique Paturel at Unifrance