TV Announcer Pierre Tchernia has died
Lemonde
By Masha Sery
10/8/2016
He was "Mr. Cinema " and "Public Friend
No. 1". The way this issue well befitted his wide smile and jovial
character. The director and journalist Pierre Tchernia died at the age of 88
years, announced his agent Saturday 8th October.
Retrace his career is to go back sixty years in the
history of television, the RDF (French Broadcasting) to DTT (Digital
Terrestrial Television). As three other Pierre - Desgraupes, Dumayet, Sabbagh -
Tchernia was one of the pioneers of this new media that is tentatively called
in French homes; those who, Cognac-Jay, associated their names to the first
television news in 1949 and multiplied emissions as writer, director and
animator. Not yet an industry, just a craft. The young cinephile jack of all
amused himself by inventing images how instruct lightly, distract with gaiety.
He performed skits and animation games for young and old. He loved his job,
specifically for the diversity and freedom it gave him.
Son of a Ukrainian immigrant worker in France, Pierre
Tcherniakowski was the last in a family of four children. He grew up in
Courbevoie and discovered early a passion for the 7th art cinema in his
neighborhood. He was twelve years old when he was bedazzled in 1940 by John
Ford’s “Stagecoach”. After graduation, he enrolled at the Technical School of
Film and photography business. He obtained a pass mark in sensitometry but
managed to integrate in the second year the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic
Studies (IDHEC currently FEMIS). His promotion had Claude Sautet and Alexandre
Tarta.
Radio-TV
In 1947, Pierre Tchernia made his radio debut in Test
Club, led by Jean Tardieu. For listening in "Un mauvais quart d’heure à
passer," Pierre Sabbagh looking for employees recruited him for the news. He
commented on 16 mm silent pictures, for a few thousand viewers. The young
reporter covered the Auto Shows and household arts. He celebrated the arrival
of spring and Valentine's Day. During the first fifteen years he spent in
television, until the onset of the second string, Pierre Tchernia was
multi-dimensional: voice of health magazines and variety shows. When direction
was invented, Pierre Tchernia realized in 1956, major reports of a mine shaft
in Lens, in a peasant top of a lighthouse in the Express Paris - Lille . "la
pure télévision ", "la télévision dont on avait envie," he said.
He also animated the first color broadcast, " Arc-en-ciel", dedicated
to a parachute regiment.
He then collaborated on " L’Arroseur arrosé",
"Cinq colonnes à la “une”". He replaced Jean Nohain to "36
chandelles" and succeeded in 1965 to Gilles Margaritis "La Piste aux
étoiles." The same year, he designed with his friends, Robert and Jacques
Grello Rocca, the first satirical news program. In "La Boîte à sel"
appearing with the young Poiret and Serrault, Raymond Devos and Philippe
Noiret. It appeared on Sunday at noon, live from Buttes Chaumont. Too sassy for the
Ministry of Information of the time who demanded to read the texts in advance.
The team refused, and decided to stop rather than bend to censorship. Period of
boldness and enthusiasm: "It was a pretty special time for all the world
was hooked: the public to see, us to see. All children of the local school of
the Third Republic, we were smiling teachers, "he wrote in his memoirs
published in 2003.
With him, we discovered the joys of the circus, the
productions of Walt Disney television series “Zorro”. Pierre Tchernia loved Tex
Avery and the fireworks, the music hall and the right words. "We cannot,
even forcing his ugly nature, do not like Pierre Tchernia because it is a man -
nay, it is a man is a child - a child whose pass time is primarily to us to
share enjoyment, his tastes, his friendships, "wrote Henri Jeanson
Dialogue in Aurora December 24, 1968. he added:" From the child his
candor, illusions and dreams . He still believes in Santa Claus. To think, he just
has to look in her mirror."
Love the big and
small screen
He knew how to make catching his love of cinema and in
1949, thanks to the program series "Les Rois de la nuit". Created at
the initiative of the leader of the Centre National Cinematography (CNC) to
address the disaffection of the spectators, he led for more than twenty years,
"Monsieur cinéma" (1966-1988), who mixed film clips, interviews and
games. On his show marched all types of actors and French directors. A just
reward: the program appears in a scene for Night François Truffaut. Him succeed
"Jeudi cinéma" and "Mardi cinéma".
"I belong to the generation that made TV because the
movies did not open their doors. And by television, we did not know we were
going to hurt the cinema we loved so much. (...) The TV has stolen enough
audience for that tried to render him a little, "tell Pierre Tchernia in
May 1987. As Patrick Brion, Claude-Jean Philippe, Alain Bévérini and Henry
Chapier, he managed to reconcile his love of the big and small screen, ensuring
the promotion of the former by the latter. He introduced the Cannes Film
Festival and the Césars for several years.
"Magic
Tchernia"
He was very popular with viewers, Pierre Tchernia erected
friendship as a cardinal virtue. He honored the affection of Lino Ventura and
René Goscinny who caricatured her figure imperator of 1.87 meter in five
Asterix albums. For his friend, the trooper of Branquignols and filmmaker
Robert Dhéry, Tchernia wrote the scenarios of American Beauty and Allez France!
After the realization that cinema lovers did turn his old cabaret accomplice,
Michel Serrault, in four feature films, social comedies benevolent tone. These
stories of dual or split disordered by burlesque, these domestic conflicts
bringing together the cream of French cinema, met a great success. In Le Monde,
Jean de Baroncelli The Life annuity called it a "film noir tinged in
pink."
For television, Stone signed Tchernia successful
adaptations of Marcel Ayme, one of his favorite authors. From 1980, he no
longer recognized television that he had loved so much. The obsession of the
ratings. Too much money. Not enough to live. Pierre Tchernia hated zapping.
"The best program is the Tour de France," he thought. Younger
generations discovered this affable man who rocked the childhood of their
parents through the "Children of TV" on TF1 where, from 1994, he
presented the archives of the small screen. A second youth offered to respected
dean the facilitator Arthur nicknamed "Magic Tchernia". In 2002, it
reestablished with his acting debut in the role of narrator centurion and Caius
Gaspachoandalus in Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra Alain Chabat. The legionary
wore his beautiful quintal. Pierre Tchernia retired in 2006.
TCHERNIA,
Pierre (Pierre Tcherniakowski)
Born: 1/29/1928,
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Died: 10/8/2016,
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Pierre Tchernia’s
westerns – writer, songwriter, voice actor:
Lucky Luke: Daisy Town – 1971 [writer, song lyrics]
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons – 1978 [writer]
Asterix In America – 1994 [writer, narrator]
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