Giani Esposito

French actor and singer (1930–1974)

Giani Esposito
Born	(1930-08-23)23 August 1930 Etterbeek, Belgium
Died	1 January 1974(1974-01-01) (aged 43) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Other names	Gianni Esposito Giovanni Esposito
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1951–1973

Giani Esposito (23 August 1930 – 1 January 1974) was a French^[1] film actor and singer-songwriter.

Esposito was born from the union of a French mother with an Italian father in Etterbeek (Belgium), and he died from viral hepatitis in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He appeared in 50 films between 1951 and 1973.

As singer-songwriter, between 1958 and 1973, he recorded numerous albums marked with spirituality and poetry. His biggest success is The Clowns (Les Clowns, 1957), several covers by Raymond Devos, Jeanne-Marie Sens, Hervé Vilard and Bernard Lavilliers.

He was married with the French actress Pascale Petit and they had a girl, Doushka Esposito (born in 1963), today singer, and younger, under the name of Douchka, she was ambassadress of Walt Disney's productions on the French television.

Partial filmography

Skipper Next to God (1951) – Un passager juif (uncredited)
My Wife Is Formidable (1951) – Le barman de l'hôtel (uncredited)
Leathernose (1952) – Un jeune invité
Agence matrimoniale (1952) – (uncredited)
My Husband Is Marvelous (1952) – Un journaliste
A Hundred Francs a Second (1953) – Un cheminot en grève (uncredited)
La môme vert-de-gris (1953) – Le capitaine du bateau
Quay of Blondes (1954) – Un tueur
The Women Couldn't Care Less (1954) – Man at the Poker Game (uncredited)
Cadet Rousselle (1954) – Monseigneur
Huis clos (1954) – Diego – le disciple de Garcin
French Cancan (1955) – Prince Alexandre
Black Dossier (1955) – Jean de Montesson
Les mauvaises rencontres (1955) – Pierre Jaeger
Les Hussards (1955) – Pietro
Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956) – Sandro Galli
Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1956) – Vani
The Schemer (1957) – Claude Watroff
Les Misérables (1958) – Marius Pontmercy
Le bel âge (1960) – Claude
Normandie – Niémen (1960) – Lemaître
Vers l'extase [fr] (1960) – Jérôme
Paris Belongs to Us (1961) – Gerard Lenz
Cross of the Living (1962) – Yan
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc (1964) – Ettore
Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1964) – Ettore
The Sea Pirate (1966) – Napoléon
Il grande colpo di Surcouf (1966) – Napoléon
The Decameron (1971)

Discography

Les Clowns (1959)
Jardiniers qui doutez de l'arbre de vie (1967)
Un noble rossignol à l'époque Ming (1968)
Les ombres sont chinoises (1970)
Paris, le désert (1972)

References

^ Death certificate n° 7/1974 of Giani Esposito on French site Les Gens du Cinéma

External links

Giani Esposito at IMDb

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