Acting
Antoine de Caunes
FR, EN cinema · 66 credits
Born
1 December 1953 (age 72)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Also known as Paul Persavon
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, comedian, actor, journalist, 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 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+. In 1988, De Caunes started making an English-language version of his French music programme Rapido, for Janet Street-Porter's youth and entertainment programming strand DEF II, with new episodes of Rapido usually being broadcast as part of DEF II's Wednesday night schedule on BBC2. He then went on to create the long-running magazine programme Eurotrash for Channel 4, with this humorous post-pub entertainment show co-presented by Jean Paul Gaultier for the few series and featuring regular spots for European stars like Lolo Ferrari. 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. De Caunes launched a new magazine Vieux, about issues faced by the elderly, in May 2024. He is a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Solidarité sida (AIDS Solidarity). Source: Article "Antoine de Caunes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
Vieillir et jouir sans entraves
as Self - Actor / Host / Writer / Director
En route pour le SNL
as Self - Guest
The Original+
as Self - Presenter
La véritable histoire des hippies
as Narrator (Self )
La Génération des Enfants du rock
as Self (voice)
40
as Self
Bruuuuuce By Antoine
as Self - Host
Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix
as Self : Narrator (voice over)
Nine Men
as Gustave
Tell Me Iggy
as Self : Interviewer, Thanks
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
as Dagonet
Canal+ Replay
as Mr. Replay / Les Deschiens / La Minute Blond / Bref / Plateaux
The Jews
as Antoine de Caunes
Dark Desire
as Paul Aubras
Maboul de Séoul
as Self - Host
Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
as Le Prince (voice)
En tatanes à Manhattan
as Self - Host
Illegal Love
as Self (voice over)
Toqué de Tokyo
as Self - Host
Mumu
as Le Colonel
He's My Girl
as Simon Eskenazy
En Berline à Berlin
2009
En Berline à Berlin
as Self - Host
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Julien
48 Hours a Day
as Bruno Tellier
Coluche
Director, Writer
Mr. Bean's Holiday
as Anchorman
A Perfect Friend
as julien rossi
Twice Upon a Time
Director, Producer, Screenplay
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
as Various characters
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
as Various (archive footage)
Les amants du bagne
as Albert Londres
The Car Keys
as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
Monsieur N.
Director
Blanche
as Le capitaine KKK
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
as Narrateur
Eurotrash Unzipped
as Self - Presenter
Love Bites
Director
Return to Algiers
as Pierre Nivel
The Color of Lies
as Germain-Roland Desmot
Chili con carne
as Claude
Man Is a Woman
as Simon Eskenazy
A Song for Eurotrash
as Self - Presenter
Bob le magnifique
as François Morin / Bob St Clar
For a Good Cause
as Daniel
Two Dads and One Mom
as Jérôme
Pentimento
as Charles
The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris
as Self - Presenter
