Dominique Collignon-Maurin, French voice of Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars," has died

Actor Dominique Collignon-Maurin, a French-language dubbing personality best known for being the voice of Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) in Star Wars , died in Paris at the age of 76 on Monday, August 4, his nephew, actor Emmanuel Karsen, announced to Agence France-Presse.

Half-brother of Patrick Dewaere and son of actress Mado Maurin, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, who died after a long illness, 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 has also appeared in around a hundred feature films, plays, series and television films in France, including La Belle Américaine , by Robert Dhéry (1961), Les Amitiés particuliers , by Jean Delannoy (1964), Les Grandes Vacances , by Jean Girault (1967), The Princes , by Tony Gatlif (1983), The Fifth Element , by Luc Besson (1997), or Podium , by Yann Moix (2004). Dominique Collignon-Maurin has also dubbed Disney characters, notably in Finding Nemo , 101 Dalmatians and The Enchanter , and has worked in several video games.

Along 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 "little Maurins", in homage to their mother, the actress Mado Maurin, who died in 2013 at the age of 98. "He was the soul of the family," confided Emmanuel Karsen.