Pierre Dourlens is a French actor known for an extensive career in theatre and voice dubbing for film, television, animation, and video games. Within the realm of anime, he is recognized for providing the French voices for several prominent characters in internationally distributed films and series.

Dourlens has been active in voice dubbing for many years, contributing to a wide range of animated works that have been released in French-speaking markets. His body of work includes roles in major theatrical anime films. He is notably the voice of Watari, the elderly assistant to the detective L, in the anime series Death Note. In the films of director Katsuhiro Otomo, Dourlens voiced the character Dr. Edward Steam in Steamboy and Duke Red in Metropolis.

His voice acting also extends to other acclaimed Japanese animated features. He provided the French voice for Commissioner Toshimi Konakawa in the surrealist film Paprika and voiced the King in Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea. Another notable role is Gikuri in the 2006 French re-dub of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Beyond Japanese anime, Dourlens has an extensive filmography in voice acting for other forms of animation. He voiced the villainous Franklin Bean in Wes Anderson's stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox and Professor Callaghan in the Disney animated film Big Hero 6. He has also been a recurring voice in the French dubs of DC Comics animated productions, famously portraying the villain Deathstroke in Teen Titans and the loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth in several Batman animated films and series.

Dourlens is widely known as the regular French voice for actor Patrick Stewart, having dubbed his performances as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, among other roles. He has also supplied the French dialogue for actors such as Raymond J. Barry, John Glover, and F. Murray Abraham. A versatile performer, his career in voice acting is complemented by a substantial body of work on stage, as well as numerous roles in video games, including Emperor Uriel Septim VII in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the character Leo Galante in Mafia II, and the elf lord Celebrimbor in the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games.