Roger Carel, legendary

voice actor

, died on September 11, 2020 at the age of 93, here during the 2012 Henri-Langlois

Awards ceremony

in Vincennes -

BENAROCH / SIPA

This is the voice

 !

He was perhaps the best known, and most loved, voice in France.

The voice actor of all the voice actors, who has left his mark on entire generations of spectators and embodied characters as mythical as Asterix, Micky, C-3PO, Alf, Winnie the Pooh, Captain Cave… Do you want more?

Maesto from

Once Upon a Time ... Life

, Kermit the Frog from The

Muppet Show

,

Benny Hill

, Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, but also Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis, Peter Sellers.

Actor and voice actor Roger Carel died on September 11, he was 93 years old.

The information was confirmed to the

Parisian

 then to AFP by his son and by the town hall of Aigre, where the actor died.

“We did not wish to communicate on his death, to preserve his wife, greatly upset.

We did not want her to be bombarded with messages from people in the profession, or journalists, explains her son.

His funeral took place Thursday in the strictest family privacy.

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