Bernard Alane is a French actor and singer, born on December 25, 1948, in Paris. While his career spans theater, film, and television, he is particularly renowned for his extensive voice work, dubbing numerous foreign films and animated series into French. In his early career, he was known for on-screen roles in films like Hibernatus and Mon oncle Benjamin, but he later became a prominent figure in dubbing. He was also a pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française from 1972 to 1973 and has been nominated twice for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In the realm of animation and dubbing, Alane is the regular French voice for several Hollywood actors, including Stanley Tucci, Stephen Tobolowsky, and the late Ray Liotta. He is also widely recognized for his long-standing roles in French-dubbed versions of major animated franchises. Notably, he is the voice of Owl in various Winnie the Pooh media, a role he has held since 1997, and has voiced characters in Disney films such as the Peddler in Aladdin and Clopin in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In French original productions, he is well known as the voice of Averell Dalton in the Lucky Luke animated series and films, and as the voice of the druid Getafix (Panoramix) in recent Astérix animated films, starting with Astérix: The Domain of the Gods. His other notable animation voice roles include Mishima in The Suicide Shop and Atcham in the Dofus and Wakfu series, which are part of the Krosmoz universe.

Bernard Alane provided the French voice for the character Gorō Ōtaki in the 2021 series Godzilla Singular Point. This role is part of his broader career as a voice artist specializing in the French adaptation of foreign animated content, which encompasses a wide range of international productions, including those from Japan. His contributions to the field are marked by a consistent presence and a vast portfolio of characters across both original French animation and dubbed versions of global animated works.