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 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.
50 acting credits · 14 directing credits
Acting · 50
Champs-Elysées
1982
Sacrée soirée
1987
Vivement dimanche
1998
Apostrophes
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Midi trente
1972
Discorama
1959
Cinépanorama
1956
Samedi soir
1971
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
L'Académie des 9
1982
Cérémonie des César
1976
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
Téléthon
1987
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
1976
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
Asterix and the Vikings
2006
The Little Bather
1968
War of the Buttons
1962
En direct de...
1956
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
Carom Shots
1963
Signé Furax
1981
The Clouzot Scandal
2017
Les Rois du gag
1985
Si Perrault m'était conté
1966
Paul Grimault, image par image
2003
Les Enfants de la télé
1994
The American Beauty
1961
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
Le Francophonissime
1969
Killer Spy
1965
Turning Table
1988
A Horse for Two
1962
There Is the Brunette
1958
La Bonne Peinture
1967
La Gueule de l’emploi
1974
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
2019
Le Violon de l'orphéon
1957
Héloïse
1991
L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle
1959
Bravo Charlot!
2007
On purge bébé
1961
Le Club : Claude Jade
2001
Tintin voyageur du siècle
2001
Messieurs les farfelus
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Directing · 14
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967
The Annuity
1972
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
The Other One's Mug
1979
The American Beauty
1961
The Counterfeit Constable
1964
Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé
1990
Bonjour l'angoisse
1988
Le Café liégeois
1963
La Grâce
1979
Le Passe-muraille
1977
L'Huissier
1991
Le Voyageur imprudent
1982
Héloïse
1991