Maurice Sarfati

Maurice Sarfati (1931-2013) was a French actor and writer who scripted some of the later episodes of 1, Rue Sésame, the first French co-production of Sesame Street.
Sarfati was primarily an actor, with film work beginning in the 1950s, including the 1956 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (with Philippe Clay, as Frollo's brother Jehan) and the first in the Jean Gabin series of Maigret films Maigret tend un piège (as assisting inspector Lapointe). He had a rare starring role in La P... sentimentale (1958, as a high school student enamoured of a prostitute) but otherwise continued in support, including the English language films The Journey (with Yul Brynner and Robert Morley) and Lost Command. Later films include the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac and Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme (2013, his final performance).
On TV, Sarfati recurred on Arsène Lupin joue et perd and the miniseries Mazarin as well as scripting several television plays. He voiced the comics hero Tintin in a series of 1960s records and later worked extensively in dubbing, as the French voice of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Al Pacino in the TV version of The Godfather, and Tony Danza on Who's the Boss? He dubbed Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, Robin Williams in The Survivors, Alan Arkin in The In-Laws, Reni Santoni in Dirty Harry, and Omar Sharif in Top Secret! In animation, Sarfati dubbed the Big Bad Wolf in The Three Little Pigs, Reed Richards on the 1994 The Fantastic Four, Drax and others on Silver Surfer, and Tom and others on Tom and Jerry. He directed the dub of the anime series Nicky Larson and voiced most of the villains, while other anime roles include Inspector Lestrade on Sherlock Hound and the narrator on Kimba the White Lion.
==External links==
*IMDb
*French animation dub credits
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