Actor Dominique Paturel, French voice of JR Ewing in

Dallas

, a cult 1980s soap opera, died at the age of 90, his family said on Tuesday.

“My uncle died on Monday evening at the hospital in Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor).

He had been suffering from diabetes for some time and had to have an amputation.

His general condition has deteriorated lately,” informed his nephew, Loïc Paturel.

The funeral will take place Friday, at 2:30 p.m., in Pordic (Côtes-d'Armor), "the family cradle, where he will be buried", he continued.

"He was one of the last to have played under the direction of Jean Vilar"

“He was one of the last to have played under the direction of Jean Vilar [illustrious director, founder of the Avignon festival].

He had nearly 80 plays to his credit and around thirty films.

He was part of this generation that knew how to do everything,” adds Loïc Paturel.

But his uncle was best known to the general public for the dubbing of JR, an unscrupulous character from the American series

Dallas

, played on screen by Larry Hagman.

“I had tremendous luck.

Perhaps, thanks to the dubbing, I had this choice to be able to accept or refuse theater or television projects which did not suit me”, he had said one day to the site Objectif Cinéma.

The French voice of many iconic characters

Dominique Paturel, who is not related to the singer and actress Sabine Paturel, dubbed a hundred characters.

He was the French voice of Michael Caine, Terence Hill, Robert Duvall, Frank Sinatra and Vittorio Gassman.

It can also be heard in the French versions of films such as

The Winner, Patton, Barry Lyndon, The President's Men, Elephant man, Mad Max 2, Millenium

and many iconic American series such as

Colombo, Les Invahisseurs, Agence all risks, Desperate Housewives

.

Previously, in the 1960s and 1970s, he was a familiar face on the small screen thanks to series like

Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

or

D'Artagnan

.

In the cinema, it has been directed by renowned directors, such as Christian-Jaque, André Cayatte or Philippe de Broca.

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