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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
January 29, 1928
Died
October 8, 2016
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Pierre Tcherniakowsky
- Pierre Rochefort
- Monsieur Cinéma
Pierre Tchernia
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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 years he hosted a television game show of movie trivia, Monsieur Cinéma (in French). He was also host or presenter for various French talk, variety, quiz and music shows over the years such as La Clé des champs. Tchernia was the regular French commentator in the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 occasions from 1958 until 1974. On 14 July 2011, he became Commandeur of the Legion of Honor. Source: Article "Pierre Tchernia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
2019
8.0
Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The Clouzot Scandal
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
5.2
Le narrateur (voice)
Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
8.0
Self
Bravo Charlot!
2007
6.1
Le narrateur (voice)
Asterix and the Vikings
2006
7.0
Self
Paul Grimault, image par image
2003
7.0
Self - Actor
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
7.4
Caius Gaspachoandalus / Le narrateur
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
Credits
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
as Self (archive footage)
2019
8.0
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
as Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
2019
8.0
The Clouzot Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.5
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Asterix at the Olympic Games
as Le narrateur (voice)
2008
5.2
Bravo Charlot!
as Self
2007
8.0
Asterix and the Vikings
as Le narrateur (voice)
2006
6.1
Paul Grimault, image par image
as Self
2003
7.0
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
as Self - Actor
2002
7.0
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
as Caius Gaspachoandalus / Le narrateur
2002
7.4
🎬
Le Club: Claude Jade
as Self
2001
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Tintin voyageur du siècle
as Narrateur
2001
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Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
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Les Enfants de la télé
as Self - Co-Host
1994
4.4
Héloïse
as Narrateur
1991
4.0
Les Nuls, l'émission
as Self - Guest
1990
8.3
Turning Table
as The Mockingbird (voice)
1988
7.3
Téléthon
as Self
1987
5.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
Les Rois du gag
as Presenter of the Césars
1985
5.7
L'Académie des 9
as Self
1982
6.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Signé Furax
as Un agent de l'Obélisque
1981
4.8
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
7.3
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
9.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
La Gueule de l’emploi
as Le colleur d'affiches
1974
2.6
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Le Francophonissime
as Présentation
1969
0.0
The Little Bather
as Le président du jury (uncredited)
1968
6.6
La bonne peinture
1967
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Deux Romains en Gaule
as Voix-off
1967
6.5
Si Perrault m'était conté
as Self
1966
8.0
Killer Spy
as Interviewer
1965
5.0
Carom Shots
as Legris, nouveau cadre supérieur de 321 (uncredited)
1963
6.1
War of the Buttons
as Bédouin, rural warden
1962
7.2
A Horse for Two
as Other agent who arrests the suitcase thief
1962
6.0
The American Beauty
as Announcer
1961
6.0
On purge bébé
as Horace Truchet
1961
8.0
Discorama
as Self - Host
1959
0.0
🎬
L'anglais tel qu'on le parle
as Le commissaire de police
1959
0.0
There Is the Brunette
as Guissauguet - le client
1958
5.0
Le Violon de l'orphéon
as Narrator (voice)
1957
0.0
En direct de...
as self
1956
0.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
🎬
Messieurs les farfelus
as Caméo
N/A
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