Bernard Lanneau (born October 31, 1952 in Dijon) is a French actor and voice actor.
He is active on stage since 1975, and is best known for being the regular French dubbing voice of Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Alec Baldwin, and Richard Burgi. Other actors he's dubbed several times include Bruce Greenwood, Jimmy Smits, Michael Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, and Dylan Baker. He's also voiced Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
In animation, his most notable dubbing roles include Aaron in The Prince of Egypt, the Moon King in Kubo and the Two Strings, and Duckworth and Lunaris in the 2017 DuckTales series. On television, he always dubs Richard Burgi, Detective Jim Ellison on The Sentinel and Karl Mayer in Desperate Housewives among others.
Film role-wise he's had some small parts such as the narration of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec and Dr. Turpin in De Gaulle.
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- The Other Darrin:
- Was the second voice of Owen Burnett in Gargoyles (the first one being Michel Élias). Lanneau himself would then be replaced by Roland Timsit later on.
- Succeeded Dominique Collignon-Maurin for the voice of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
- Also succeeded Patrick Osmond (who passed away in 2020) from Batman and Batman Returns as Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Flash (he had become Keaton's main voice for quite some time in any case).
