He had shot with great directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville ( Bob the flambeur ), Édouard Molinaro ( Le Gang des otages ) or even Jacques Becker ( Touchez au grisbi ) ...
The actor and producer Daniel Cauchy died at the age of 90, swept away by the coronavirus. Father of Didier Cauchy (also an actor who remained famous for his role in the series La Crim ' ), his death caused a shock wave in the world of French cinema already very hard hit by the covid-19 pandemic.
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The photographer Jean-Marie Périer, with whom Daniel Cauchy was very friendly paid him an overwhelming tribute on Instagram. "Daniel left last night, " he wrote Friday, May 8. I will not spread my sentence, but it turns out that he was a true friend since always. It was he who made me start in the small medium of advertising films, first a film actor then a producer, it is therefore thanks to him that I was able to support my family for years. He was a man with a humor who was matched only by his loyalty, I will always regret it. ”
Born in 1930 in Paris, Daniel Cauchy took his first steps in cinema at the very beginning of the 1950s.
A "mouth" of French cinema
Familiar figure of French cinema, a "mouth" as they say in the profession, he was popular in the 1950s and 60s. Second precious role in popular heritage films, Daniel Cauchy will be engaged twice by Jean-Pierre Melville who plays him in When you read this letter (1953) and Bob the flambeur (in 1956). Cauchy also toured three times with André Berthomieu ( The Portrait of his father, In self-defense, Sacred Youth ). As for Jacques Becker, he offered him the role of Fifi in Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), alongside Jean Gabin.
A year later, André Cayatte engaged him in the legal drama Le Dossier noir. Édouard Molinaro, he greatly appreciates the actor. He hired him in three of his films, Arsène Lupine contre Arsène Lupine , in 1961, the spy film Les Ennemis, in 1962, and Le Gang des otages, in 1973.
Daniel Cauchy will also play with Louis de Funès in 1964 in Jean Girault's Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez . He made his last film appearance in Les Acteurs , by Bertrand Blier in 2000.