Jacques Georges Maline, aka Georges Aminel (11 October 1922 – 29 April 2007) was a French stage, film and television actor of Martinican origins.
His deep voice made him a particularly sought after voice actor, and he went on to dub a number of Baritones of Strength and deep-voiced (very deep, even) villains in French, the most famous being Darth Vader starting with The Empire Strikes Back. note
As one may notice, his actor's name is an anagram of his birth name.
Notable French dubbings include:
- Orson Welles
- The narrator in King of Kings
- Raoul Nordling in Is Paris Burning?
- Le Chiffre in Casino Royale
- General Dreedle in Catch-22
- Welles as himself in F for Fake
- The narrator in History of the World Part I
- Yul Brynner
- Ramses II in The Ten Commandments
- Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven
- James Earl Jones
- Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope
- Darth Vader in Star Wars (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith)
- Thulsa Doom in Conan The Barbarian
- James Coburn
- Samuel Potts in Major Dundee
- Yaphet Kotto
- J. T. Parker in Alien
- Donald Sutherland
- Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in M*A*S*H
- Guy Stockwell
- Draco in The War Lord
- Cesar Romero
- The Joker in Batman (1966) (1st voice) and Batman: The Movie
- Keye Luke
- Mr. Wing in Gremlins
- Mel Blanc
- Sylvester in Looney Tunes (original dubbing) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
