Antoine de Caunes
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 Singer Kid Carpet (left) and Antoine de Caunes (right) in London |
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| Born | December 1, 1953 Paris |
| Occupation | Television presenter and film actor and director |
| Children | Emma de Caunes |
| Parents | Georges de Caunes and Jacqueline Joubert |
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953 in Paris, France) is a television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes.
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[edit] Career
He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and Space Sheriff Gavan (known in France as X-Or).
His early TV appearances included Chorus (1975), the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, and then his breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+.[1]
De Caunes came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC2 television series Rapido, notable for his catchphrase, in the thickest of French accents, "Rap, Rap, Rap, Rapiiiidoo". He then went on to create the long-running adult entertainment programme Eurotrash with Jean-Paul Gaultier for Channel 4. He also presented a short-lived chat show on Channel 4 called Le Show. In addition he appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies, which he claimed to be "a French lollipop, on a very British stick."
He provided voices in Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt.
He has been a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Soirées de l'humour — Solidarité sida.
[edit] Film actor
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- Pentimento (1989)
- Les deux papas et la maman (1996)
- C'est pour la bonne cause! (1997)
- La divine poursuite (1997)
- L'homme est une femme comme les autres (1998)
- Au coeur du mensonge (1999)
- Chili con carne (1999)
- Là-bas... mon pays (2000)
- Le vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001) (narrator)
- Blanche (2002)
- Les clefs de bagnole (2003)
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
[edit] Film director
- T'en as? (2000)
- Scénario sur la drogue (2000)
- Les Morsures de l'aube (2001)
- Monsieur N. (2003)
- Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Les Morsures de L’Aube, filmfestivals.com
[edit] External links
- Antoine de Caunes at the Internet Movie Database
- Eurotrash at Channel 4 - Adult content
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