Count de Tournay — The Scarlet Pimpernel Character Profile

About Count de Tournay

A French aristocrat targeted for execution during the Reign of Terror. Used as bait by Chauvelin to trap the Pimpernel, he is successfully bribed out of prison and escapes to England alongside Armand St. Just.

Character Facts

Played by

O.B. Clarence

Appears in

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Count de Tournay — Alliance Rescuer & Rescued — Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard)

  Protagonist and a key aristocrat he saves from execution.

• Count de Tournay — Conflict Captor & Prisoner — Chauvelin (Raymond Massey)

  Revolutionary official holding a targeted aristocrat.

• Count de Tournay — Alliance Fellow Prisoners — Armand St. Just (Walter Rilla)

  Co-prisoners united by the rescue mission.

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More characters from The Scarlet Pimpernel

• Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard)
• Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon)
• Chauvelin (Raymond Massey)
• The Prince of Wales (Nigel Bruce)
• The Priest (Bramwell Fletcher)
• Sir Andrew Ffoulkes (Anthony Bushell)
• Armand St. Just (Walter Rilla)
• Robespierre (Ernest Milton)
• Suzanne de Tournay (Joan Gardner)
• Countess de Tournay (Mabel Terry-Lewis)
• Jellyband (John Turnbull)
• Col. Winterbottom (Edmund Breon)