Claude Préfontaine

Claude Préfontaine (1933-2013) was a Canadian actor and voice artist who dubbed Statler in Les Muppets, the Québécois French dub of The Muppets. His son Charles Préfontaine dubbed Waldorf. The elder Préfontaine also dubbed Mr. Slate in The Flintstones. 
Préfontaine was a Quebec actor prominent in theater, television, and film starting in the 1950s (primarily in French). He was a regular on the 1961 early soap opera Sous le signe du lion (and as a different character on the revived version, 1997 to 2001). He appeared on early anthologies, had guest roles in the 1990s on Scoop and Arsène Lupin, and was in the 2002 miniseries Napoléon (with Isabella Rossellini). English-language credits include playing joint premier of Canada Georges-Etienne Cartier on the historical series The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway (with Gerard Parkes and others) and the movies Some Girls (with Jennifer Connelly) and Black Robe.
As a voice actor, Préfontaine dubbed James Cromwell in The Green Mile and others, Christopher Lloyd in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Robert Hardy in the Harry Potter movies, Ian McKellen in X-Men, Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol, Charles Dance in Gosford Park, and Philip Baker Hall in The Sum of All Fears. He started his dubbing career in cartoons and puppet series in the 1970s, heard in Hanna-Barbera series The Flintstones (The Great Gazoo) and Yogi's Gang (Doggie Daddy). Other cartoon dubs include Transformers, Babar: The Movie, and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (the king).
==External links==
*IMDb
*Dubbing credits
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Category:International Voice Actors