- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- January 29, 1928
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- October 8, 2016
Pierre Tchernia
Pierre Tcherniakowski (29 January 1928 – 8 October 2016), better known as Pierre Tchernia, was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France, he was known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema. Born in Paris as Pierre Tcherniakowski, he was the youngest of four children. His father, a Ukrainian immigrant, was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. He grew up in Courbevoie. In 1940, at age 12, he saw John Ford's Western Stagecoach and was inspired to work in cinema. After graduation, he enrolled in a film and photography technical school, and then joined the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies. He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney). For many y…
Filmography
movieKourou et l'épopée spatiale française
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieLes Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019 · Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
movieThe Clouzot Scandal
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieDe Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima
movieReadymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima
2010 · Writer
movieAsterix at the Olympic Games
2008 · Le narrateur (voice)
movieBravo Charlot!
2007 · Self
movieAsterix and the Vikings
2006 · Le narrateur (voice)
moviePaul Grimault, image par image
2003 · Self
movieHow we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · Self - Actor
movieAsterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · Caius Gaspachoandalus / Le narrateur
Le Club : Claude Jade
movieLe Club : Claude Jade
2001 · Self
movieTintin voyageur du siècle
2001 · Narrateur
tvVivement dimanche
1998 · Self
tvLes Enfants de la télé
1994 · Self - Co-Host
movieHéloïse
1991 · Narrateur, Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
movieL'Huissier
1991 · Director
Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé
tvNouvelles de Marcel Aymé
1990 · Adaptation, Dialogue, Director
tvLes Nuls, l'émission
1990 · Self - Guest
movieTurning Table
1988 · The Mockingbird (voice)
movieBonjour l'angoisse
1988 · Writer, Director
tvTéléthon
1987 · Self
tvSacrée soirée
1987 · Self
tvNulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
movieAsterix in Britain
1986 · Adaptation
movieLes Rois du gag
1985 · Presenter of the Césars
movieAsterix vs. Caesar
1985 · Writer
tvL'Académie des 9
1982 · Self
tvChamps-Elysées
1982 · Self
movieLe Voyageur imprudent
1982 · Director, Adaptation
movieSigné Furax
1981 · Un agent de l'Obélisque
movieThe Other One's Mug
1979 · Director
movieLa Grâce
1979 · Director, Writer
movieLucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
1978 · Other
movieLe Passe-muraille
1977 · Director
movieThe Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay
tvCérémonie des César
1976 · Self - Host
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieLa Gueule de l’emploi
1974 · Le colleur d'affiches
movieThe Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974 · Director, Screenplay
tvMidi trente
1972 · Self
movieThe Annuity
1972 · Director, Writer
movieDaisy Town
1971 · Screenplay, Adaptation, Lyricist
Samedi soir
tvSamedi soir
1971 · Self
tvLe Francophonissime
1969 · Présentation
movieAsterix and Cleopatra
1968 · Screenplay
movieThe Little Bather
1968 · Le président du jury (uncredited), Screenplay
movieLa Bonne Peinture
1967
movieDeux Romains en Gaule
1967 · Voix-off, Director
tvSi Perrault m'était conté
1966 · Self
movieKiller Spy
1965 · Interviewer
movieThe Counterfeit Constable
1964 · Director, Writer
movieLe Café liégeois
1963 · Director
movieCarom Shots
1963 · Legris, nouveau cadre supérieur de 321 (uncredited), Adaptation
movieWar of the Buttons
1962 · Bédouin, rural warden
movieA Horse for Two
1962 · Other agent who arrests the suitcase thief
movieThe American Beauty
1961 · Announcer, Director, Screenplay
movieOn purge bébé
1961 · Horace Truchet
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self - Host
L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle
movieL'Anglais tel qu'on le parle
1959 · Le commissaire de police
movieThere Is the Brunette
1958 · Guissauguet - le client
movieLe Violon de l'orphéon
1957 · Narrator (voice), Writer
tvEn direct de...
1956 · self
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
Messieurs les farfelus
movieMessieurs les farfelus
— · Caméo