Goodbye Benoît Allemane (January 12, 2025)

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Sad news today: French voice actor Benoît Allemane passed away on Sunday. To say that M. Alleman was prolific would be an understatement; he performed the French voices for characters from Doctor Claw to Baloo and in the process dubbed countless film and genre roles over the years. He was likely best known as the official French voice of actor Morgan Freeman, who paid tribute to him on Instagram.





You can find an obituary here. He is best known to Wing Commander fans, however, as the French voice of Captain William Eisen in localized releases of Wing Commander III and IV. Here's a briefing from Wing Commander IV showing his dub work in action:


Our thoughts are with M. Allemane's family, friends and fans.

Thank you to Sergorn for reporting this news.

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Original update published on January 12, 2025
 
RIP, all of the actors are getting up there I guess. We almost never hear about dub actors, I know at least the Japanese voice for Shotglass in the MegaDrive port died some years ago (he was a big shot that voiced the original Space Battleship Yamato, among other things). Do all of the foreign ports have such impressive casts?
 
It varies from country to country! For Wing Commander III and IV, Origin managed the French and German locs and the quality was extremely good. (EA famously couldn't decide what to do with Origin's very polished localization group and fired and rehired them several times over the course of the mid-90s.)
 
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