The actor Dominique Collignon-Maurin, personality of French-speaking dubbing notably known for having been the voice of Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) in Star Warsdied in Paris at the age of 76 on Monday August 4, announced his nephew, the actor Emmanuel Karsen, at the France-Presse agency.
Half-brother of Patrick Dewaere and son of the actress Mado Maurin, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, who died of a long illness, has lent his voice, since the 1960s, in more than 200 films to Dustin Hoffman, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Gary Oldman, John Malkovich, James Woods, Roberto Benigni, Willem Dafoe…
Very prolific, the actor was also playing in France of a hundred feature films, plays, series and telefilms, of which The beautiful Americanby Robert Dhéry (1961), Special friendshipsby Jean Delannoy (1964), The big holidays, by Jean Girault (1967), Princes, De Tony Gatlif (1983), The fifth elementfrom Luc Besson (1997), or Podiumfrom Yann Moix (2004). Dominique Collignon-Maurin has also doubled Disney characters, especially in Nemo’s world, The 101 Dalmatians et Merlin the enchanterand officiated in several video games.
With Jean-Pierre Maurin, Yves-Marie Maurin, Patrick Dewaere, Jean-François Vlérick and Marie-Véronique Maurin, the actor was a member of a family of artists nicknamed the “Petits Maurin”, in homage to their mother, actress Mado Maurin, died in 2013 at 98 years old. “It was the soul of the family”said Emmanuel Karsen.
