Michel Vigné
Michel Vigné (b. August 10, 1956) is a French actor specialized in dubbing.
He is the regular French voice of Mickey Rourke, Michael Wincott and Ron Perlman, and one of the voices of Sylvester Stallone, Danny Trejo, William Forsythe, Steven Seagal, Hulk Hogan, Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen, Chow Yun-fat, Nick Nolte, Patrick Swayze, Faran Tahir, Robert Patrick and Dolph Lundgren. He also dubbed Al Pacino in Carlito's way, John Travolta in Pulp Fiction and Sauron in The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Among his many roles in animation are Alex Murphy / RoboCop in RoboCop: The Animated Series, Rod Ross in Death Note, Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Skipper in the Planes films, the Watcher in What If...? and Green Lantern in various animated films and series.
Regarding video games, he dubbed the narrator in Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Branden in Batman: Arkham Origins, Crach an Craite in The Witcher 3, Unkar Plutt for the LEGO Star Wars games, and he reprised his role of Green Lantern in the Injustice games.
On July 28, 2024, he announces that he will significantly slow down his career, annoyed by the current working conditions in the realm of dubbing.[1]
Voice roles
[edit]Beast Wars: Transformers
[edit]- Dinobot
- Inferno (except for his first appearance in Spider's Game)
- Clone One
- Starscream
- Vok disguised as Unicron
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (video game)
[edit]Transformers: War for Cybertron (video game)
[edit]- Brawl
- Decepticon Soldiers
- Decepticon Rocket Soldiers
- Additional voices
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
[edit]Notes
[edit]- In the French dub of Beast Wars, Michel Vigné gave Starscream a very foppish accent, in addition to the very formal language he uses. That way of speaking is pretty distant from both the original version and the two voices he had in the French dub of the original cartoon. However, that is strangely pleasant to hear.
- Actually, he will soon after give that exact same voice to Inferno for the rest of the show, since he takes over the role just after the Possession episode.
- He briefly dubbed Grimlock for the cameo of War of the Dinobots in the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, in which Mathilda tries to watch The Transformers on TV.
- In 2023, when reminded about his role of Dinobot in Beast Wars, Michel Vigné said that he remembers the dubbing of the series as a great memory, working together with friends and having a lot of fun.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Certaines déconvenues récentes m'ont fait prendre conscience des changements sociétaux profonds qui se sont opérés dans mon métier."—Michel Vigné, Facebook, 2024/07/28
- ↑ "Animutants est un grand souvenir, que des amis, nous travaillions ensemble à cette époque. Nous nous sommes beaucoup amusés."—Michel Vigné, Twitter, 2023/06/08
