Marc Cassot

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"And then they told me I was about to voice a firetruck robot from space"

Marc Cassot (June 16, 1923 - January 21, 2016) was a French actor, director and voice director.

During his 70 years-long career, he participated in numerous theater plays, films and TV series.

In addition to this, he also made a lot of dubbing since the 50s, having been the regular voice of Paul Newman and Philip Baker Hall and one of the occasional voices of Steve McQueen and Christopher Lee. He was also the voice of Adam West's Batman.

He dubbed both Michael Gambon and Richard Harris as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter saga (keeping a voice continuity for French audiences), Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films and Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben in the original Spider-Man trilogy, among various other voice roles in cinema, animation and TV series.

In animation, he notably dubbed Preston B. Whitmore in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its sequel, Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ramsis Dendup in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Hovis in The Tale of Despereaux.

He also directed several French dubbings, including Saturday Night Fever, The Blues Brothers, Footloose and the first two Indiana Jones films.

Voice roles

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

• Sentinel Prime

Notes

• Marc Cassot was most likely chosen to dub Sentinel Prime because he dubbed Leonard Nimoy as Spock in the 2009 Star Trek movie. The Canadian French dub did the same, casting Jean Brousseau as Sentinel Prime.

External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:fr|fr:}}Marc Cassot|{{#if:Wikipedia entry|Wikipedia entry|Marc Cassot}}]] (French)
• IMDb entry