It was called “Mr. Cinema” because of the program of the same name that he has hosted for over ten years. The director Pierre Tchernia, one of the pioneers of French television, has died at the age of 88, in the night from Friday to Saturday in Paris, announced his agent and his son.
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“He is gone in peace”
“The state of health of papa has degraded it for 8 days, he died at 3 o’clock in the morning in our arms,” explained Antoine Tchernia. “He is gone in peace surrounded by his family,” says his agent, Artmedia.
“The disappearance of Mr. Cinema is in sadness the lovers” according to Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes film festival. “It has made the general public addicted to movies, without noticing”. François Hollande recalled that he was “the living memory of French television”. The facilitator Arthur, who had made a call to the dinosaur on his show Kids tv, from 1994 to 2006, salutes the memory of its Stone – “Magic” Tchernia. Laurent Ruquier also, crying “The friend public number 1″.
The reference film television
Born in Paris on January 21, 1928, Pierre Tchernia had participated, at the ORTF, with the creation of the first television news in 1949 that he had then left in 1955 to become a presenter of variety shows (key fields, The salt box). He has also presented the Eurovision contest. From 1966 to 1988, he was imposed as the reference film of the television, with a series of broadcasts in which he distinguished himself by imposing his culture and his taste for the seventh art, Mr. Cinema Tuesday cinema.
In this edition of Mr. Cinema of September 19, 1976, we see Pierre Tchernia summarize the movie news before hosting the candidate set proposed by the program, in which players must answer questions on the seventh art to win in turn the title of “Mr. Cinema”.
“A director lucid”
the Son of Polish migrants (his real name is Tcherniakowski), he discovered the cinema with his mother in a dark room, of Levallois, where he grew up. Adult, it is also spent behind the camera. He directed The Life (1972) with Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claude Brasseur, or even The face of another (1979) with Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, as well as some cartoons. His voice remains as famous, it has often provided the narration of several Asterix in cinema, cartoons or films in real images.
“His physique round was hiding, in reality, a stage director and lucid,” said Gilles Jacob.
According to The Point, Pierre Tchernia was assigned, the year of his departure from the Children’s tv: “What I want simply, it is only by multiplying the number of channels does abêtissent not too much…” A desire which is not, frankly, become a reality in 2016.
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