Gérard Rinaldi

Gérard Rinaldi (February 17, 1943 – March 2, 2012) was a French actor, musician, lyricist, artistic director and singer with Les Charlots.
Career
Death
Rinaldi died of lymphoma on March 2, 2012. He was 69. A few days later, holding back his tears Jean Sarrus (Les Charlots) paid homage to his friend and had this to say about him : "Gérard was the soul of Les Charlots. He excelled in everything he did : he had this wonderful singing voice, but mostly as a writer, that's what he liked to do above everything else : writing songs. I admired his great sense of humor and his ability to laugh about everything, all the time. As he was dying, he even made us laugh about his cancer, I saw him on his hospital bed and he just tried to make me laugh in spite of the morphine kicking in. I'm going to miss him a lot." Luis Rego (Les Charlots) also reacted to his friend's death, saying that he was very sad and had a lot of admiration for Gérard Rinaldi : "he was so gifted that he would have had a great career even without Les Charlots".
Ten days after Rinaldi's death, the theatre world was reunited at Le Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris for a special homage. Ex-members of Les Charlots Jean Sarrus, Jean-Guy Fechner and Richard Bonnot (Rinaldi's replacement in the group from 1986 to 1992) were present to pay their respects. Actors Gérard Jugnot, Marie-Anne Chazel, Marie-Pierre Casey, Marthe Villalonga and many others paid their respects to their friend.
The Théâtre de la Michodière was chosen for the homage, because Rinaldi had appeared there four times in his stage career 1986 Double Mixte, 1992 La Puce à L'Oreille, 1994 Bobosse, 2004 Le Canard à l'Orange.
Partial filmography
La grande java (1971) - Philippot
Daisy Town (1971)
Les Bidasses en folie (1971) - Gérard
Stadium Nuts (1972) - Gérard
Les Charlots font l'Espagne (1972) - Gérard
The Big Store (1973) - Gérard
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973) - Un soldat (uncredited)
(1974) - Planchet
(1974) - Planchet
Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974) - Gérard
Trop c'est trop (1975)
Bons Baisers de Hong Kong (1975) - Gérard
Et vive la liberté! (1978) - Gérard
Les Charlots en délire (1979) - Gérard de
Les Charlots contre Dracula (1980) - Gérard
Le retour des bidasses en folie (1983) - Un bidasse
Charlots connection (1984) - Gérard
Descente aux enfers (1986) - Elvis
La vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1986) - Francis Clément
Funny Boy (1987) - Lambros
Feu sur le candidat (1990) - Le flic à RTL
Al centro dell'area di rigore (1996) - Oreste
Quelqu'un de bien (2002) - Directeur thalasso 1
Après la pluie, le beau temps (2003) - José Bretelle
Roles of note
Watership Down - Hazel (French dub)
The Great Mouse Detective - Ratigan (French dub)
An American Tail - Henri (French dub)
The Little Mermaid (1989 film) - Chef Louis (French dub)
A Goofy Movie - Goofy (French dub)
Balto - Steele (French dub)
An All Dogs Christmas Carol - Charlie Barkin (French dub)
Rocko's Modern Life - Heffer (French dub)
Tarzan - Clayton (French dub)
The Simpsons - Mr. Burns (French dub)
Father of the Pride - Larry (French dub)
References
1943 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from cancer in France
Deaths from lymphoma
French people of Italian descent
French male voice actors
Male actors from Paris
Singers from Paris
20th-century French male singers