Antoine de Caunes

1953-

Biography: life and films

Antoine de Caunes is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born in Paris, France on 1st December 1953.

His best films as an actor include Claude Chabrol's crime-thriller Au coeur du mensonge (1999), Alexandre Arcady's Là-bas... mon pays (2000), Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's comedy La Folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009) and Pascal Hérold's Cendrillon au Far West (2012), and whose best work as a film director include Scénarios sur la drogue (2000), Les Morsures de l'aube (2001) and Monsieur N. (2003).

Antoine de Caunes has so far appeared in 19 films, directed 5 films and scripted 2 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (2 films) and Alexandre Arcady (2).

His most frequent genres include: comedy (9 films), drama (8), comedy-drama (4), comedy-romance (3), Thriller (3) and crime-thriller (2).

Our average rating for Antoine de Caunes over all films is: 2.5

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer


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