Name
Pierre Tchernia
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1928-01-29
Deathday
2016-10-08 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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.
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Known For
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- 2001 Le Club : Claude Jade as Self
- 1981 Signé Furax as Un agent de l'Obélisque
- 1963 Carom Shots as Legris, nouveau cadre supérieur de 321 (uncredited)
- 1957 Le Violon de l'orphéon as Narrator (voice)
- 1985 Les Rois du gag as Presenter of the Césars
- 2008 Asterix at the Olympic Games as Le narrateur (voice)
- 2006 Asterix and the Vikings as Le narrateur (voice)
- 1962 A Horse for Two as Other agent who arrests the suitcase thief
- 1965 Killer Spy as Interviewer
- 2007 Bravo Charlot! as Self
- 1967 La Bonne Peinture
- 2019 Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 Turning Table as The Mockingbird (voice)
- 1959 L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle as Le commissaire de police
- 1962 War of the Buttons as Bédouin, rural warden
- 1961 On purge bébé as Horace Truchet
- 1958 There Is the Brunette as Guissauguet - le client
- 1961 The American Beauty as Announcer
- 1991 Héloïse as Narrateur
- 2019 Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol as Self / Interviewer (archive footage)
- 1976 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2017 The Clouzot Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 Paul Grimault, image par image as Self
- 1968 The Little Bather as Le président du jury (uncredited)
- 1974 La Gueule de l’emploi as Le colleur d'affiches
- 2002 Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Caius Gaspachoandalus / Le narrateur
- 1967 Deux Romains en Gaule as Voix-off
- 2017 De Gaulle, the Last King of France as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 Tintin voyageur du siècle as Narrateur
- 2002 How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra as Self - Actor
- Soon Messieurs les farfelus as Caméo
- 1962 Rue du Havre
- 1966 Si Perrault m'était conté ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Nulle part ailleurs ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 L'Académie des 9 ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1994 Les Enfants de la télé ( 1 episode ) as Self - Co-Host
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Midi trente ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Apostrophes ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 Les Nuls, l'émission ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1998 Vivement dimanche ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1959 Discorama ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1956 En direct de... ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Téléthon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Sacrée soirée ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1969 Le Francophonissime ( 1 episode ) as Présentation
- 1976 Cérémonie des César ( 11 episodes ) as Self - Host
