Antoine de Caunes

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Antoine de Caunes
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Antoine de Caunes at 2013 César Awards
Born (1953-12-01) 1 December 1953 (age 70) [1]
Paris, France [1]
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Television presenter, actor, director
Spouse
Daphné Roulier
​
(m. 2007)​
Children3, including Emma de Caunes
Parent(s) Georges de Caunes
Jacqueline Joubert

Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. [2] [3] [4] [5] 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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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+. [6]

In 1988, De Caunes started making an English-language version of his French music programme Rapido , for Janet Street-Porter's youth and entertainment [7] programming strand DEF II, with new episodes of Rapido usually being broadcast as part of DEF II's Wednesday night schedule [8] [9] [10] on BBC2. [11] [12] He then went on to create the long-running magazine programme Eurotrash for Channel 4, with this humorous post-pub entertainment show [7] co-presented by Jean Paul Gaultier for the few series and featuring regular spots for European stars like Lolo Ferrari. [13] 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.

From 2013 until 2015, he hosted the daily evening show Le Grand Journal on Canal+.

He provided voices in the Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt . [14]

De Caunes launched a new magazine Vieux, about issues faced by the elderly, in May 2024. [15]

He is a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Solidarité sida  [ fr ] (AIDS Solidarity). [16]

Filmography

Film acting

Television acting

Directing

Voice work

Discography

Two CD titles, Il a pas peur de personne, Film Music by BO from the animated show Lucky Luke televised on France 3 and sold in 2001 by Sony Music.

Songwriter [27] [28]

Participation

Bibliography

Antoine de Caunes wrote his first book published with Éditions Albin Michel in the collection Rock & Folk in the Magma groupe:

He wrote two novels about the conquests of the New York private detective, Sam Murchinson:

Several collections of his speeches Nulle part ailleurs were published; texts written with Albert Algoud:

He also wrote a dictionary:

Radio shows

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