Thursday, January 11, 2024

Laurence Badie obit

Laurence Badie, actress with a unique voice, has died at the age of 96

 

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Highlights: Laurence Badie, actress with a unique voice, has died at the age of 96. Dubbing cartoons, game shows, classical repertoire, boulevard theatre and cinema, the actress had the gift of making people laugh. Without necessarily knowing her face, generations remember the high-pitched voice she lent to the character of Vera (Velma) in Scooby-Doo. She was part of the heyday of the Académie des neuf, the successful lunchtime television show in the 1980s.

A television figure in the 1980s, actress Laurence Badie died Thursday at age 96, her agent announced. Dubbing cartoons, game shows, classical repertoire, boulevard theatre and cinema, the actress had the gift of making people laugh, with a high-pitched and singular tone of voice.

A television star in the 1980s, actress Laurence Badie died Thursday at the age of 96, her agent announced. Dubbing cartoons, game shows, classical repertoire, boulevard theatre and cinema, the actress had the gift of making people laugh, with a high-pitched and singular tone of voice.

Actress Laurence Badie, a television star in the 1980s, known for her unique voice and who also had a long career in theatre and film, died on Thursday at the age of 96, her agent told AFP. She "died this (Thursday) morning at the age of 96 in Brittany," Goavec said.

The actress had a knack for making people laugh

Dubbing cartoons, game shows, classical repertoire, boulevard theatre and cinema, actress Laurence Badie had the gift of making people laugh, with a high-pitched and singular tone of voice. Without necessarily knowing her face, generations remember the high-pitched voice she lent to the character of Vera in Scooby-Doo. Older people remember this petite and cheeky blonde, a laughing little face with a snub nose, who was part of the heyday of the Académie des neuf, the successful lunchtime television show in the 1980s.

In her long career, she has also appeared in more than a hundred films, series and television movies. Often secondary roles, but sometimes with great filmmakers, from Sacha Guitry to François Truffaut, Vincente Minelli, Alain Resnais and Vittorio De Sica.

Tagged in "Forbidden Games"

Her full name was Laurence Dolores Badie-Lopes and she was born on June 15, 1928 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. She studied for a year at HEC but preferred theatre. And took lessons with the actor Julien Bertheau. During an audition, she gets her brushes tangled up and lets out an "Oh!". "You have to take the one who said ''," says the director, a certain Georges Wilson, who invites her to Jean Vilar's TNP (Théâtre National Populaire), where she stays for nearly ten years.

He already had a predilection for comic roles. "The best years of my life! This is where I learned everything, in contact with the great actors: Gérard Philipe, Philippe Noiret, Maria Casarès." She also worked for the cinema, where she was spotted in René Clément's Jeux Interdits (1952). She was soon given the role of a maid. "As people lack imagination, as soon as I had to play a little maid, I was hired. I've played a lot of them."

Boulevard theatre would be his world for decades. She played in plays by Guitry but, above all, the public flocked for a year and a half to see her alongside Louis de Funès in Oscar, directed by Pierre Mondy. On the voice side, in addition to Vera in Scooby-Doo, she is the French voice of many other cartoon characters such as Casper the friendly ghost or the dog Rocky.

 

Selected filmography

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1952            Forbidden Games                  

1953    The Virtuous Scoundrel                    

Follow That Man                

1954    Les Impures                       

1956    La Traversée de Paris                

1963    Muriel             

Enough Rope               

1964    The Soft Skin                     

1967    Woman Times Seven                

1970            Cannabis                     

1974    How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby                      

1982            Bankers Also Have Souls               

2015    The law of Alexandre            Madame Timbaut            TV series (1 episode)

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