Antoine de Caunes

Infobox actor
name = Antoine de Caunes


caption = Singer Kid Carpet (left) and Antoine de Caunes (right) in London. Photo by Sandrine Pothin-Noir.
birthdate = birth date and age|1953|12|1
birthplace = 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.

He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including "Cobra" and "X-Or".

He first appeared in front of the camera with the series "Les Enfants du rock", again for A2, before making a breakthrough with "Nulle part ailleurs" for Canal+.

De Caunes came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC2 television series "Rapido" before starting 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". He also 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.

Film actor

* "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)

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)

External links

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* [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/E/eurotrash/Rapido_trash/ Eurotrash at Channel 4] - Adult content

Persondata
NAME = de Caunes, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Film director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH = 1 December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH = Paris
DATE OF DEATH =
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