Antoine de Caunes

Antoine de Caunes

Born: December 1, 1953
in Paris, France
Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French 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 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+.

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.

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.

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 3.0.

Movies for Antoine de Caunes...

La Génération des Enfants du rock
Title: La Génération des Enfants du rock
Released: February 16, 2024
Type: Movie
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L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Title: L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix
Title: Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary on Astérix's illustrator Uderzo, led by Antoine de Caunes with interviews from various French celebrities.
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Title: Mostra, Venise
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
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Tell Me Iggy
Title: Tell Me Iggy
Character: Self
Released: May 23, 2022
Type: Movie
This new intimate documentary looks at the extraordinary journey of the 75-year-old American rocker, who has come back from everything, and especially from the worst, but with his capacity for wonder intact.
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Title: Neuf Mecs
Character: Gustave
Released: March 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Neuf mecs - Le film
Title: Neuf mecs - Le film
Character: Gustave
Released: March 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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César Awards, de Caunes Era
Title: César Awards, de Caunes Era
Character: Self - Archive
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Antoine de Caunes will host the 47th Cesar ceremony, the big party that celebrates French cinema. The man is experienced in this exercise of master of ceremonies since he will officiate for the tenth time in his career since 1996. The 68-year-old TV presenter looks back on the best memories of the Césars, meetings with actors, filmmakers, small sketches with the guests... Antoine de caunes shares the secrets of a successful presentation.
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Title: Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Character: Dagonet
Released: July 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Following the end of the acclaimed tv series, King Arthur will oppose Lancelot's army to get the throne back after his flee to Rome.
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Canal+ Replay
Title: Canal+ Replay
Character: Mr. Replay / Les Deschiens / La Minute Blond / Bref / Plateaux
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings.
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Title: True Story With
Character: Self
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: TV
A six-part series with YouTube stars Natoo, Cyprien, Norman, Ludovik, Mcfly & Carlito, meeting with French celebrity guests such as Jonathan Cohen, Antoine de Caunes and Julie Gayet.
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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
Title: Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
Character: Self
Released: December 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).
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Title: Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English?
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 2018
Type: TV
Comedian Al Murray travels to some of England's nearest neighbours to explore some of their gripes with the English, with the help of a comedian from each nation he visits.
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Title: La Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: TV
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La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé
Title: La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Crac Crac
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: La Gaule d'Antoine
Character: Self
Released: December 13, 2017
Type: TV
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Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Title: Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Chronicling the definitive story behind the creation of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's "Born to Run" album, this exclusive documentary incorporates rarely seen archival film shot inside the studio, recent band interviews and intimate footage of the artists at work.
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The Jews
Title: The Jews
Character: Antoine de Caunes
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.
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Title: L'émission d'Antoine
Character: Self - Host
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: TV
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CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Title: CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.
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Maboul de Séoul
Title: Maboul de Séoul
Character: Self - Host
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
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Dangereuses retrouvailles
Title: Dangereuses retrouvailles
Character: Paul Aubras
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
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En tatanes à Manhattan
Title: En tatanes à Manhattan
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Eleven years after the trauma of Sept. 11 , Antoine de Caunes, is going to take the pulse of New York and check if the metropolis is still the center of global creativity. He paces Manhattan but Brooklyn , Staten Island or Rockaway Beach , Queens , where he does not hesitate to wet the shirt for an introductory session to surf. This appointment with Liberty in New York unleashed led the Wall Street along the movement " Occupy Wall Street ", which celebrates its first anniversary . Then he goes to meet the kings of the night. His wanderings led him to meet a candidate for president , king of the absurd , organic cooks who cultivate their gardens in the city center or a naturalist in Central Park.
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Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
Title: Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
Character: Le Prince (voice)
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Cinderella is transformed for a night at the royal ball, but finds herself battling a band of gorilla pirates who have kidnapped Prince Vladimir and the Duchess. Will she have time to save the day and fall in love before the clock strikes twelve?
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Baba de Barcelone
Title: Baba de Barcelone
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Bref
Character: Antoine de Caunes
Released: August 29, 2011
Type: TV
Short videos showing typical funny moments in French life, depicting way of life, being, laughing, habits, and using slang vocabulary. Specially recommended for Parisians and / or people who lived there.
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Toqué de Tokyo
Title: Toqué de Tokyo
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 15, 2010
Type: Movie
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Chorus : La première émission Rock d'Antoine de Caunes
Title: Chorus : La première émission Rock d'Antoine de Caunes
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
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Mumu
Title: Mumu
Character: Le Colonel
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.
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He's My Girl
Title: He's My Girl
Character: Simon Eskenazy
Released: December 3, 2009
Type: Movie
A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
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En Berline à Berlin
Title: En Berline à Berlin
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: Movie
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48 Hours a Day
Title: 48 Hours a Day
Character: Bruno Tellier
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
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Tu peux garder un secret ?
Title: Tu peux garder un secret ?
Character: Julien
Released: May 7, 2008
Type: Movie
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Mr. Bean's Holiday
Title: Mr. Bean's Holiday
Character: Anchorman
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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A Perfect Friend
Title: A Perfect Friend
Character: julien rossi
Released: April 26, 2006
Type: Movie
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
Title: De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
Character: Various characters
Released: October 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Kaamelott
Character: Dagonet
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
In this off beat account of King Arthur's quest for the Grail, virtually every journey, battle or adventure is stopped dead in its tracks by the knights of the round table's most worldly traits : cowardice, greed, idiocy or misplaced chivalry. As a consequence, instead of epic adventures we are treated with the characters' pragmatic and anachronistic take on each and every event in the Grail legend, true to the purest sitcom tradition.
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Title: De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Various (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs".
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Les amants du bagne
Title: Les amants du bagne
Character: Albert Londres
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Blanche
Title: Blanche
Character: Le capitaine KKK
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
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Eurotrash Unzipped
Title: Eurotrash Unzipped
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: November 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Naughty moments from the long-running Channel 4 show about how naughty those Europeans are. Includes clips featuring first series co-presenter and fashion supremo Jean-Paul Gaultier, and tv comedian Graham Norton. Hosted as ever by the evergreen and debonair Antoines de Caunes.
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Title: The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
Character: Lucky Luke (voice)
Released: September 16, 2001
Type: TV
The cowboy who draws a gun faster than his shadow is back! Lucky Luke, the famous wandering cowboy fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling Dalton brothers. He rides Jolly Jumper, "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by Rantanplan, "the stupidest dog in the universe".
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Title: Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Character: Narrateur
Released: September 14, 2001
Type: Movie
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.
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Title: As An Aside
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 8, 2001
Type: TV
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.
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Return to Algiers
Title: Return to Algiers
Character: Pierre Nivel
Released: April 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
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Chili con carne
Title: Chili con carne
Character: Claude
Released: September 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Living in perfect harmony with three former boy friends, three kids from these boy friends and her grand mother, Irène came to France from Chili twenty years ago.It would be broken with the arrival of Claude.
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The Color of Lies
Title: The Color of Lies
Character: Germain-Roland Desmot
Released: January 13, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
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Title: Rex the Runt
Character: Euro MP (voice)
Released: December 21, 1998
Type: TV
Rex the Runt is an animated claymation television show produced by Aardman Animations for BBC Bristol in association with EVA Entertainment and Egmont Imagination. Its main characters are four plasticine dogs: Rex, Wendy, Bad Bob and Vince. The series began with a short, Ident, in 1989 directed by Richard Goleszowski. After a long gestation period this developed into two unaired shorts and then thirteen ten-minute episodes that first aired over two weeks on BBC2 from December 1998. A second thirteen episode series aired from September 2001 on the same channel. As well as the core cast guest voices included Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.
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Title: Rex the Runt
Character: Stinky Basil (voice)
Released: December 21, 1998
Type: TV
Rex the Runt is an animated claymation television show produced by Aardman Animations for BBC Bristol in association with EVA Entertainment and Egmont Imagination. Its main characters are four plasticine dogs: Rex, Wendy, Bad Bob and Vince. The series began with a short, Ident, in 1989 directed by Richard Goleszowski. After a long gestation period this developed into two unaired shorts and then thirteen ten-minute episodes that first aired over two weeks on BBC2 from December 1998. A second thirteen episode series aired from September 2001 on the same channel. As well as the core cast guest voices included Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: So Graham Norton
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 1998
Type: TV
So Graham Norton was a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.
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A Song for Eurotrash
Title: A Song for Eurotrash
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: May 12, 1998
Type: Movie
A satirical look at Eurovision featuring cover versions of classic songs.
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Man Is a Woman
Title: Man Is a Woman
Character: Simon Eskenazy
Released: March 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
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Bob le magnifique
Title: Bob le magnifique
Character: François Morin
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A journalist with various personal problems invents an adventure hero whose adventures he recounts in a daily soap opera.
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Title: The Gods Must Be Daring
Character: Alex
Released: April 30, 1997
Type: Movie
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
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For a Good Cause
Title: For a Good Cause
Character: Daniel
Released: February 5, 1997
Type: Movie
When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.
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Two Dads and One Mom
Title: Two Dads and One Mom
Character: Jérôme
Released: April 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...
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Never Twice
Title: Never Twice
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
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Title: Eurotrash
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: TV
The likes of Antoine de Caunes, Jean Paul Gaultier, Davina McCall, and Lolo Ferrari are your guides to the weird and wonderful in Europe and beyond. How else would you learn about pubic hairdressers, the Penis Olympics, or the latest Japanese sex toys?
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Title: Lucky Luke
Released: March 20, 1992
Type: TV
Lucky Luke is the sheriff of a merry and unruly frontier settlement. Jolly Jumper is not only Lucky’s trusty horse, but also the brains of Daisy Town. The four Dalton Brothers are the sworn enemies of Lucky Luke, who is constantly trying to thwart their devilish plans and their spectacularly clumsy escapes from the Daisy Town Jail. This fractious band finds itself caught up in a series of misadventures, crossing paths with hordes of wacky friends and fiendish enemies.
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Title: Amnesty International's Big 30
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1991
Type: Movie
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
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Pentimento
Title: Pentimento
Released: December 13, 1989
Type: Movie
In this frothy comedy, Lucie never knew her father, but she somehow finds out he has recently died and is to be buried on a certain day at a certain cemetary. In a belated attempt to connect with her roots, she rushes to the cemetary and joins a funeral gathering. She gets to know the people at the ceremony and is soon embroiled in an art smuggling scheme and has some (probably incestuous) romantic feelings for a young man she believes may be her brother. Eventually she finds out that she went to the wrong part of the cemetary and that these people are not her kin.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Les Enfants Du Rock
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: TV
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The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris
Title: The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: January 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Recorded live in Paris for Chrous TV. Malcolm Owen would be dead six months after the filming of this concert, but the legacy of The Ruts live on through the works of the artists they'd influenced over the years. Songs include: "Jah War" "Babylon's Burning" and "In a Rut".
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Title: Cérémonie des César
Released: April 3, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Le Meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Pine d'huitre, Ouin Ouin, etc...
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV