There’s something unsettling about watching Terminator’s French voice disappear in Rambo’s wake. A month after Alain Dorval, the actor Daniel Beretta, famous as the voice actor of Arnold Schwarzenegger, died at the age of 77 on the night of Friday to Saturday, March 23, in Ajaccio. “He died in his sleep”states his daughter Barbara Beretta, an actress who also specializes in dubbing.
Before Daniel Beretta gave “Schwarzy” his warm and deep voice, he began his musical career in the 1960s in a duo with Richard de Bordeaux and then began to enter the stages and film sets. He also played the title role in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar He has also worked and co-written with Mireille Mathieu, Paul McCartney, Ennio Morricone and Nino Ferrer La Rua Madureira.
A figure from life in Ajaccio
In the late 1980s he began dubbing Arnold Schwarzenegger for film Double relaxationthanks to an impromptu audition over the phone where he heard the star’s voice screaming “He’s got the job!”he told – in 1994. Besides that Terminator 2, True Lies and other films by the former governor of California, Daniel Beretta also lent his voice to the character of Lumière Beauty and the Beast from Disney to video game series splinter group from Ubisoft and Japanese animated films Ghost in the Shell.
The actor, also a singer-songwriter, born in Audincourt (Doubs), “Was an Ajaccian at heartdescribes his friend Christophe Mondoloni, deputy mayor of Ajaccio. He had lived here for 50 years.. “He was very involved on a cultural level and gave good advice to island actors.”, he said again. In particular he had “created the official anthem of the Ajaccio Carnival in the 1980s” and was “Member of the board of the Palatinu Theater from 2015 to 2020”.
