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3Didier Patrick Michel Floersheim (March 23, 1944 - March 4, 2016) was a French actor, voice actor and voice acting teacher.
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5He started off on stage and had many small roles on film, such as in ''The Marseille Contract'', ''[[Film/TheFrenchConnection French Connection II]]'', ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', ''Film/{{Frantic}}'' and ''Empire of the Wolves''. His main career however revolved around dubbing, he was the first regular voice of Creator/RobinWilliams (from ''Literature/SeizeTheDay'' to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', including ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'', ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' and ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'') before being gradually replaced at it by Creator/MichelPapineschi.
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7He often dubbed Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/JeffBridges and Creator/EdHarris, and dubbed Creator/GeoffreyRush (Captain Barbossa in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''), Creator/KurtRussell (Snake Plissken in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', R.J. [=MacReady=] in ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}''), Creator/MichaelRooker (Hal Tucker in ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', Merle Dixon in ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}''), Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/ChristopherWalken, Creator/JohnDoman, Creator/MandyPatinkin, Creator/ChrisCooper (Alexander Conklin in ''Film/TheBourneSeries''), Creator/MichaelChiklis (Ben Grimm/The Thing in ''Film/FantasticFourDuology'') and Creator/PeterWeller (Alex Murphy in ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'') several times. He was also the very first French dubbing voice of Creator/MelGibson, in ''Film/MadMax1'' and ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'', before Creator/JacquesFrantz took over.
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9!!Tropes & Trivia in his works:
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11* {{Typecasting}}: He voiced a lot of AffablyEvil villains, due to how mellow (yet still wicked) his voice could sound.

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