Henri Émile Georges Marie Désiré Virlogeux (March 22, 1924 - December 19, 1995) was a French actor and voice actor.
He first ambitioned to study law, then chose acting, learning with the lessons of Charles Dullin and taking up stage comedy acts in Parisian cabarets. He then collaborated on stage works with the likes of Robert Hossein and Jacqueline Maillan.
He appeared in about 50 films and about a hundred TV productions (including the 1972 production adapting The Accursed Kings), and worked on the dub of several films, including no less than two prominent Star Wars roles, Grand Moff Tarkin in A New Hope and Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi. Georges Claisse would later replace him as Palpatine starting in 1999.
Selected roles (acting):
- Arsène Lupin vs Arsène Lupin (1962) as Ganimard
- OSS 117: Shadow of Evil (1964) as Leasock
- The Sucker (1965) as a gangster
- The Saint Lies in Wait (1966) as Oscar Chartier
- The Tattoo (1968) as Dubois
- Arsène Lupin (1971) as Herlock Sholmes
- The Accursed Kings (1972) as Pope John XXII
- The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret (1989 series) as Lognon
Selected French voice/dubbing roles:
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) as the armorer
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Grandpa Potts
- Amarcord (1973) as the lawyer
- Barry Lyndon (1975) as Captain Feeny
- The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) as Getafix / Iris the hypnotist
- The Duellists (1977) as the one-eyed man
- Star Wars:
- A New Hope (1977) as Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin
- Return of the Jedi (1983) as Emperor Sheev Palpatine
- Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978) as Tom O'Connor
- Vincent (1982) as the narrator
- Pirates (1986) as Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red
- The Land Before Time (1988) as the narrator / Rooter
