Dominique Collignon-Maurin (born April 1st, 1949) is a French actor and voice actor.
He is part of the Maurins, a well known family of French entertainers and artists. He is the son of actress Mado Maurin and the younger half-brother of late actor Patrick Dewaere.
While he's been very active on stage, he's mostly known for his voice work and dubbing work. He dubbed Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the original Star Wars trilogy, and he has dubbed Nicolas Cage in pretty much everything since The Cotton Club. Other actors he regularly dubs include Willem Dafoe, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline and James Woods. He's also the first French voice actor to have dubbed Bruce Willis, in Blind Date, before Patrick Poivey took over with Die Hard.
His best known animation role is perhaps Hades in the French dub of Disney's Hercules. He is also The Other Darrin for the narration of the last three Harry Potter audiobooks in French since the passing of the previous narrator, Bernard Giraudeau, in 2010.
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- Typecasting: A very specific case: He dubs Willem Dafoe... but only in the films of Wes Anderson, without exception (in release order: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch and Asteroid City). Éric Herson-Macarel voices Dafoe everywhere else otherwise. And there's Bill Murray's businessman in The Darjeeling Limited too.
