RIP Emmanuel Karsen

 

Death of Emmanuel Karsen, the French voice of Sean Penn and Norman Reedus

RTL

9/12/2025

 

The French dubbing world has just lost one of its great voices: that of Emmanuel Karsen, whom you heard in the films starring Sean Penn, and in the series The Walking Dead, via the character of Daryl, played by Norman Reedus.

The voice of Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Norman Reedus, the voice actor Emmanuel Karsen, a dubbing personality, died on Thursday of illness at the age of 62, his agent Audrey Pécôme announced to AFP.

Also an art director, with more than 250 films and series to his credit in front of and behind the camera, Emmanuel Karsen has also lent his voice to Ian Tracey or John Leguizamo and to many video game characters, including "Call of Duty".

A musician and singer, Mr. Karsen has performed for several years with his band "Les Heroics". He has also been featured in plays.

Emmanuel Karsen, whose real name was Emmanuel Bourdeaux, was the nephew of actor Dominique Collignon-Maurin, voice of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Son of the actress Mado Maurin and half-brother of Patrick Dewaere, Dominique Collignon-Maurin died at the beginning of August, also of illness, at the age of 76.

KARSEN, Emmanuel (Rmmanuel Bourdeaux)

Born: 3/23/1963, Paris, Île-de-France, France

Died: 9/11/2025, France

 

Emmanuel Karsen’s westerns – voice actor:

Winchester ’73 – 1950 [? DVD release French voice of Dan Duryea]

Tombstone – 1983 [French voice of Michael Biehn]

The Proposition – 2005 [French voice of Garry Waddell]

Sukyaki Western Django – 2007 [French voice of Teruyuki Kagawa]

Appaloosa – 2008 [French voice of Luce Rains]

Hell on Wheels (TV) -0 2011 [French voice of Bolen]

Django Unchained – 2013 [French voice Cooper Huckabee]

Godless (TV) – 2017 [French voice of wanderer hiding in cabin]

Westworld (TV) 2016-2018 [French voice of Bradley Fisher]