His voice was recognizable by all French fans of Dragon ball. The actor Éric Legrand, who lent his voice to Vegeta in the French version of the series Dragon Ball ZInspired by the homonym manga of Akira Toriyama, he died this Thursday, May 22.
His death was announced by several of his former collaborators, including actor Marc SAEZ and actor Patrick Borg, who called the character of his son Goku in the French version of Dragon Ball Z.
“Goodbye to my friend. For months, we have written on WhatsApp every day until Monday, May 19, we transferred it to a palliative care service … You stopped answering me,” said Patrick Borg on Facebook, without specifying the reasons for the actor’s death.
“More than 45 years of friendship and 40 years together in ‘Dragon Ball Z’. You will miss your fans … but you will be especially surprising!
Owen Wilson French voice
Famous in the world of dubbing, where he had begun in the late 1970s, Éric Legrand was also the French voice of American actor Owen Wilson, whom he had doubled more than a dozen films.
He had also lent his voice to John Slatter, Billy Zane, Cameron Daddo, Alexis Denisof, Frank Whaley, Reed Diamond or Lou Diamond Phillips, John Pyper-Ferguson and Michael Varan.
In addition to Vegeta, Éric Legrand had also doubled several other characters in the saga Dragon ball Like Yamcha. It was also the French voice of the hero of Zodiac knightsSeiya
Source: BFM TV
