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 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
 *  (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)