Education
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques.
Actor journalist screenwriter film producer
Institut des hautes études cinématographiques.
In France he is known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema. He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney).
Foreign many years he hosted a television game show of movie trivia, Monsieur Cinéma.
He has also been host or presenter for various French talk, variety, quiz and music shows over the years. Tchernia was the regular French commentator in the Eurovision Song Contest on 14 occasions from 1958 until 1974.
On 14 July 2011 he became Commandeur of the Legion of Honor. He has also been caricatured numerous times in the series: initially in Pilote 306 he is shown interviewing about the upcoming story in Britain in the Legionary he is pictured as one of the Roman officers around Caesar"s map table in Pilote 556 the announcement page for in Switzerland has him hosting a game show with as guest and Goscinny & Uderzo as contestants in in Corsica he is "Centurion Hippopotamus" of the Roman camp of Totorum (same character is used in "Versus Caesar" animated movie) in and Caesar"s Gift he appears as one of the soldiers being demobbed in Obelix and Company he is part of the demoralized troop being replaced at the start of the story—drinking from an amphora of wine, he is seen being carried out by caricatures of Goscinny and Uderzo in in Belgium he is a legionary who has no problem with being beaten up by Obelix after having been stationed in Belgium in The Twelve Tasks of he is the Roman Prefect in a bureaucratic office known as the "The Place That Sends You Mad." His caricature can he found in Lucky Luke (another series by Goscinny) in Animated film "The Ballad of Daltons" as a prisoner being taken by the gourds on a picture on the wall.