Cast & creator
Antoine de Caunes
Best known for Sacrée soirée, Vivement dimanche, Champs-Elysées
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.
Also known as: Paul Persavon
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film credits
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television credits
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1976–2027 · acting roles
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Filmography (118)
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Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
C à vous
Self - Guest
2009
Kaamelott
Dagonet
2005
Nulle part ailleurs
Self - Co-Host
1987
Eurotrash
Self - Presenter
1993
The Apartment
Self - Guest
2001
Salut les Terriens !
Self - Guest
2006
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
2006
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Self - Host
2023
Quelle époque !
Self - Guest
2022
So Graham Norton
Self
1998
Bref
Antoine de Caunes
2011
Téléthon
Self
1987
Cérémonie des César
Self - Host
1976
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Anchorman
2007
The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke (voice)
2001
Super Plan
Self - Host
2025
La Boîte à secrets
Self
2019
Un monde, un regard
2021
Rex the Runt
Euro MP (voice)
1998Rex the Runt
Stinky Basil (voice)
1998
Lucky Luke
1992
Profession
2017
Hot Ones
Self - Guest
2022
Le Débarquement
2013
Off Prime
Self
2007Le Figaro La Nuit
2022
Mostra, Venise
Self - Host
2022Mostra, Venise
Writer
2022
Aujourd'hui la vie
Self
1982
Cannes
Self - Host
2023Cannes
Writer
2023
True Story with
Self
2020
He's My Girl
Simon Eskenazy
2009
Serge à Paris
2024
Bonsoir !
Self - Guest
2018
Neuf Mecs
Gustave
2022
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Dagonet
2027
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
Self
2018
Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate the English?
Self
2018
Crac Crac
Self
2017
The Jews
Antoine de Caunes
2016
La Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé
Self
2018
Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
Le Prince (voice)
2012
The Color of Lies
Germain-Roland Desmot
1999
The Original+
Self - Presenter
2025
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
2002
Amnesty International's Big 30
Self
1991
Antoine de Caunes : La vie rêvée d'un enfant du rock
Self
2025
Les amants du bagne
Albert Londres
2004
La Gaule d'Antoine
Self
2017
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Dagonet
2021
Man Is a Woman
Simon Eskenazy
1998
Décrypté (Ciné-Séries)
Self - Guest
2024
Love Bites
Director
2001
On the Road to SNL
Self - Guest
2025
Two Dads and One Mom
Jérôme
1996
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Self
2014
Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980
Director
2008
The Car Keys
Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
2003
Eurotrash Unzipped
Self - Presenter
2001
Mumu
Le Colonel
2010
Pentimento
Charles
1989
Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Director
2012
Twice Upon a Time
Screenplay
2006Twice Upon a Time
Producer
2006Twice Upon a Time
Director
2006
Nine Men
Gustave
2022
Monsieur N.
Director
2003
Never Twice
1995
Vieillir et jouir sans entraves
Self - Actor / Host / Writer / Director
2026
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Narrateur
2001
Coluche
Director
2008Coluche
Writer
2008
Return to Algiers
Pierre Nivel
2000
Les Enfants Du Rock
Self - Host
1982
Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix
Self : Narrator (voice over)
2023
Tell Me Iggy
Self : Interviewer
2022Tell Me Iggy
Thanks
2022
L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
Self
2023
The Dark Side of Porn: Death of a Porn Star
Self
2005
Blanche
Le capitaine KKK
2002
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Various (archive footage)
2004
Canal+ Replay
Mr. Replay / Les Deschiens / La Minute Blond / Bref / Plateaux
2021
48 Hours a Day
Bruno Tellier
2008
En route pour le SNL
Self - Guest
2025
Maboul de Séoul
Self - Host
2013
Bruuuuuce By Antoine
Self - Host
2024
A Song for Eurotrash
Self - Presenter
1998
La Génération des Enfants du rock
Self (voice)
2024
L'affaire Swagg Man : Hip-hop, influence et bitcoin
Self
2025
L'émission d'Antoine
Self - Host
2016
Toqué de Tokyo
Self - Host
2010
La véritable histoire des hippies
Narrator (Self )
2025
César Awards, de Caunes Era
Self
2022
Illegal Love
Self (voice over)
2011
Can You Keep a Secret?
Julien
2008
40
Self
2024
La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé
Self
2018
Dangereuses retrouvailles
Paul Aubras
2013
For a Good Cause
Daniel
1997
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Self
2017
Chorus : La première émission Rock d'Antoine de Caunes
Self - Host
2010
L'Homme à la tête de kraft
Antoine
2013
A Perfect Friend
julien rossi
2006
De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
Various characters
2005
Chili con carne
Claude
1999
The Stranglers: The Raven Tour live in Paris
Director
1979
Bob le magnifique
François Morin / Bob St Clar
1998L'Émission Impossible
Producer
1992
Dictionnaire amoureux du Tour de France
Self
2025
En tatanes à Manhattan
Self - Host
2012
The Gods Must Be Daring
Alex
1997
The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris
Self - Presenter
1980Baba de Barcelone
Self
2011En Berline à Berlin
Self - Host
2009