Giani Esposito

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 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 a 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 to the French actress Pascale Petit and they had a girl, Doushka Esposito (born in 1963), today a 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 (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)

External links

• Giani Esposito at IMDb