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.
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+.
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, a humorous post-pub entertainment show which he co-presented with Jean Paul Gaultier from 1993 to 1996. It featured 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 (AIDS Solidarity).
Filmography
Film acting 1989: Pentimento – Charles 1996: – Jérôme 1997: – Antoine 1997: – Alex 1998: L'homme est une femme comme les autres – Simon Eskenazy 1999: Au cœur du mensonge – Germain-Roland Desmot 1999: – Claude 2000: – Pierre Nivel 2001: Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert – The narrator 2002: – The captain of the KKK 2002: Les Clefs de bagnole – an actor refusing to play in a Baffie film 2006: – Julien Rossi 2007: Mr. Bean's Holiday – Television presenter 2008: – Julien 2008: 48 heures par jour – Bruno 2009: – Simon Eskenazy 2010: Mumu – The Colonel 2021: Kaamelott: The First Chapter – Dagonet
Television acting 1987: Objectif: Nul – Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff 1988-1992: Rapido – series presenter 1993–2007: Eurotrash – series presenter 1998: Bob le magnifique (made-for-television movie) by Marc Angelo – François Morin / Bob Saint Clar 2002: Les Amants du bagne (made-for-television movie) by Thierry Binisti – Albert Londres 2006-2008: Kaamelott (television series) – Dagonet 2007: Off Prime (television series, season 1, episode 2) – as himself 2010: Du hard ou du cochon! (television series, episode 3) – Fluck 2012: Bref (television series, episode 53) by Kyan Khojandi et Bruno Muschio – as himself 2013: L'homme à la tête de kraft (short film) by Thierry Dupety and Sandra Joubeaud 2013: Dangereuses retrouvailles (made-for-television movie) by Jérôme Debusschère – Paul Aubras 2013: Hitchcock by Mocky, episode: "Le don d'Iris"
Directing 1997: T'en as ? 2001: aka Love Bites 2002: Monsieur N. 2006: Désaccord parfait 2008: Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec 2011: Yann Piat, chronique d'un assassinat (made-for-television movie)
Voice work 1999: Stuart Little by Rob Minkoff – Stuart Little (French language version) 2001: La Route d'Eldorado by Don Paul and Eric Bergeron – Miguel 2001: Le Vélo De Ghislain Lambert by Philippe Harel – The Narrator 2001-2002: The New Adventures of Lucky Luke (series) – Lucky Luke 2002: Stuart Little 2 by Rob Minkoff – Stuart Little 2004: Voyage autour du soleil (made-for-television movie), docu-fiction on the space conquest 2007: La France made in USA (made-for-television movie) – The Narrator 2011: Illegal Love by Julie Gali, documentaire – Mark Leno 2012: Cendrillon au Far West by Pascal Hérold – The Prince
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 1983: Tchaou et Grodo 1984: Au pays des quat'z'amis 1984: Y'en a qui (Marie Dauphin) 1984: X-Or 1985: Clémentine 1985: Cobra 1985: L'Empire des Cinq 1986: Lady Oscar 1986:
Participation 2009 - On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler !, album in homage to Boris Vian. Cantate des boîtes
Bibliography Antoine de Caunes wrote his first book published with Éditions Albin Michel in the collection Rock & Folk in the Magma groupe: Magma, 187p., 1978. He wrote two novels about the conquests of the New York private detective, Sam Murchinson: C'est bon, mais c'est chaud (1990) C'est beau mais c'est triste (1998) Several collections of his speeches Nulle part ailleurs were published; texts written with Albert Algoud: Vous permettez que je vous appelle Raymond ?, 1990. Pas mal pour un lundi, 1990. J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites, 1991 Une ambulance peut en cacher une autre, 1992. Bien entendu, je plaisante, 1993. Le Petit Gildas illustré, 1993. He also wrote a dictionary: Dictionnaire Amoureux du Rock, Plon, 2010
Radio shows Popopop, since August 2017, every weekday at 3pm UK time, on France Inter, National French radio station.
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