Giani Esposito

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 (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)