Laurence Badie and her inimitable voice have left us, the actress was 96 years old. A great lady of the theater, her voice was known to several generations because she played Vera in the first animated series “Scooby-Doo”.
Above all, a woman of the theater at the TNP and performer of numerous Shakespeare plays on stage, the actress Laurence Badie died on January 11 at the age of 96, announced AFP (via BFM).
Pop culture fans knew her voice from having heard her in the role of Vera in the animated series Scooby-Doo and its sequels (Ghostly yours, signed Scoubidou, Scoubidou Show, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo) for a decade.
A huge career in the theater
Laurence Badie began her stage career in the late 1940s, taking part in plays from the pens of classic playwrights such as William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of King Richard II), Molière (The doctor despite Himself), Anton Chekhov (That crazy Platonov) or Beaumarchais (The Marriage of Figaro).
In the decades to come, she tended to favor the works of more modern authors, such as Sacha Guitry (The Fox and the Frog, Don’t Listen Ladiesetc.), Laurent Ruquier (if we had to redo it) and Isabelle Mergault (Love on a platter).
At the cinema with the biggest
Parallel to his career on the stage, Laurence found his first roles in the cinema in 1952, in The Life of an Honest Man by Sacha Guitry, Follow This Man by Georges Lampin and especially Jeux Interdites by René Clément, based on a novel by François Boyer.
In this war drama set during the 1940 exodus in France, she plays Berthe Dollé alongside Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey and Lucien Hubert. Building on this success, the fashionable young actress multiplies supporting roles under the leadership of prestigious French and foreign directors.
Among the latter, we can cite Henri Decoin (Razzia sur la chnouf, 1955), Vincente Minnelli (The Passionate Life of Vincent Van Gogh, 1956), Gilles Grangier (Maigret sees red, 1963, The Man with the Buick, 1968) , Alain Resnais (Muriel or the time of a return, 1963, The War is over, 1966, My uncle from America, 1980), Claude Autant-Lara (The Crossing of Paris, 1956), François Truffaut (The Soft Skin , 1964), Vittorio De Sica (Seven Times a Woman, 1967), Jean-Claude Brialy (Les Volets Clos, 1972), Jean-François Davy (Surprise Sock, 1978) or Fred Zinnemann (And Came the Day of Vengeance, 1964 ).
From the 1980s, Laurence Badie became rarer on the big screen, even if we can see her furtively in comedies (a genre that she greatly favors) The Visitors 2: The Corridors of Time (1998), Donnant donne (2009 ) and La Croisière (2010, his last cinema performance).
Television and dubbing
The native of Boulogne-Billancourt is more active on stage, playing in plays from the famous show At the theater tonightbut also in countless episodes of series such as The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret, Papa Poule, Le Miel et les Abeilles and Scènes de households.
With her particular high voice, Laurence Badie is also present in the field of dubbing. She thus lends her voice to Vera Dinkley from Scoubidou (one of the five protagonists of the famous animated program Hanna-Barbera, who is also the most intelligent of the group), as well as to characters from the cartoons or animated series Joë chez lesbees, Tarzoon, the Shame of the Jungle, Muscleman, Daddy Long Legs, Kuzco, the Megalomaniac Emperor, The Riddles of Atlantis, The Animals of the Threepenny Wood, Rox and Rouky 2 or even Justin and the Legend of the Knights for cite only them.