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French actor and singer (1930–1974)

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

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• 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)

• 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)

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

• Giani Esposito at IMDb