Bernard Noël Vetel, known professionally as Bernard Alane, was born on 25
December 1948 in Paris, France, and began his career on the stage in 1962. In
1969 director Édouard Molinaro cast him as Paul Fournier, known as the
Hibernated, in the film Hibernatus. He became a television star in 1975 with the
serial Les Compagnons d’Eleusis, and he later played the title role in Zadig ou
la Destinée (1981), while continuing to work regularly in the theatre. He
provided the spoken and sung voice of the peddler in Aladdin (1992), and from
Winnie l’ourson 2 (1997) he became the French voic...