Daniel Russo

Daniel Russo

Birth : 1948-05-13, Paris, Ile-de-France, France

History

Daniel Russo is a French actor and screenwriter born May 13, 1948 in Paris. Originally from Marseille, Daniel Russo was born in Paris during a trip by his parents. These having divorced at the beginning of the 1950s, his mother obtained custody of him but had him placed at the age of four in residential care. His father finally obtained custody in Marseilles where he was brought up. Passionate about drawing and painting, he joined the Boulle school and became an interior decorator, working with his father who intended him to take over the family business. At the same time, he does theater to correct his diction following an accident that broke his jaw at thirteen. Decorating Robert Lamoureux's apartment one day, the latter invites him to see him play and introduces him to the magic of the stage. He then entered the Ecole de la rue Blanche and then the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art (Promo 1974) where he won four prizes. At the same time, he was a rock guitarist in the Magic Stars, then Les Proverbes (pretending to be Antoine's group), performing at rock concerts in the Paris region. He joined Jacques Fabbri's theater company, with whom he appeared on the TV show Tutti Fabbri broadcast on the 1st channel from Sunday January 13, 1974. He appeared for the first time in cinema in 1976 in The Judge and the Assassin by Bertrand Tavernier in a small role as a guard. In the early 1980s, he played on the boards of the Café-Théâtre des Blancs-Manteaux and began to be spotted by certain critics for the excellence of his playing, 'remarkably expressive'. Thereafter, he interpreted many small roles before the public noticed him in Génial, mes parents divorcent!, a success of Patrick Braoudé in 1990, director whom he will find for Neuf mois in 1994. With this resurgence of popularity, he chained roles with Bertrand Tavernier, Étienne Chatiliez or Gérard Oury. The collaboration with Laurent Baffie will be fruitful in the theater: Sex, Shenanigans and General Culture, Toc toc and in the play Jacques Daniel with Claude Brasseur. On television, his performances in On the Edge or in Suzie Berton are noticed. He plays in the series Trois pères à la maison on M6 and La vie est à nous. Then he played Pierre Bérégovoy in the TV movie A Man of Honor in 2009. He lent his voice for many dubs, including the French voices of Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Bob Hoskins, John Travolta, Matt Dillon. He gave up this field in the mid-2000s.

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Daniel Russo
Daniel Russo

Movies

Si on savait
Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Isaac Benichou
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters - Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène and Laure - decide to organize a big surprise party in their family home in Chinon. They also decide to invite, each, the parents of their respective husbands - Rachid Benassem, David Benichou, Chao Ling and Charles Koffi.
The Loan
Dentro di te c'è la terra
The rocks and the sea while on vacation in the Aeolian islands, the suspended time of the Apulian countryside, the faraway perspective of a girl following her image on the social networks, the closeup perspective of a black immigrant welcomed into a home. After L’uomo doppio, an intimate diary written by Terlizzi as he films everyday, existential glimpses of life, as though they were the heart of a labyrinth without walls, in which the observer pauses, serene and slightly amazed.
On refait le boulevard
Le Choix de Cheyenne
Jacques Daniel
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
Self
Retenez bien ma gueule !
Self
Hier est un autre Jour !
Pierre Maillard
Les tourtereaux divorcent
Marcel
The Three Brothers: The Return
Le beau-père de Michael
Three brothers are reunited on the occasion of the death of his mother. The three are in a difficult stage of their lives due to economic difficulties: Bernard is a failed actor, Didier pretends to be a professor of philosophy when, in fact, is selling sex toys and Pascal lives off a rich sexagenarian. Accompanied by Sara, the teenage daughter of Bernard, they live surprising encounters while new problems appear.
Les François
Fanny
Félix Escartefigue
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her mother and Marius's father, César, persuade her to accept the romantic advances of a much older man. To save face, Fanny accepts to marry Honoré Panisse, a rich merchant of the Vieux Port, 30 years her senior who will recognize her son.
Marius
Escartefigue
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.
Il faut marier maman
Gérard
La guerre du Royal Palace
Maxime Verdier
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.
Lunch Versus Dinner
Jean-Michel
J'ai peur d'oublier
Paul
Changer la vie !
Pierre Bérégovoy
A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.
Tromper n'est pas jouer
Death List
Paul Sax
Former cop Michael Lombardi is accused of murder, and only his brother, Roman, is convinced of his innocence. Now the suspicion is moving to Roman when his superiors make an important discovery.
Un viol
Maxime Gallet
Un Homme d'honneur
Pierre Bérégovoy
Courgette, C'est mieux la vie quand on est grand
Raymond
A young boy accidentally kills his alcoholic mother and is sent to live in a foster home.
Le temps de la désobéissance
Édouard Vigne
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.
TOC TOC
Vincent
The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.
On ne prête qu'aux riches
Lucien
Marion lives alone with her 15-year-old son, Sébastien. Enrolled in an expensive private school, he does not give complete satisfaction to his mother, who bleeds to pay for his studies. A medical secretary, she is fired without warning by her boss. When her neighbor and friend, Claudie, also in financial difficulty, receives a visit from a bailiff, they decide to change their lives.
Bien dégagé derrière les oreilles
Henri Castarède
Everything goes awry between Suzy and Henri who run a hairdressing salon together. Fed up with a routine that has been lasting for ages, Suzy wants a drastic change, which is not to her husband's liking, all the more as she tells him she intends to divorce. Under these circumstances, they decide to separate both the salon and their apartment into two parts. It does not take long before all the villagers take sides, either with Suzy or with Henri.
The Antidote
Guillaume Marty
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
93, rue Lauriston
Henri Lafont
93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?
Suzie Berton
Marco
The Car Keys
Daniel
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Marche et rêve ! Les homards de l'utopie
Returning to his beloved native Marseille, Carpita focuses on three unemployed dockworkers who try to earn their keep by selling seafood.
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
L'homme d'affaires
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...
Sexe, magouilles et culture générale
Franck Petit, an unscrupulous and vulgar producer, has been in charge of "Culture pour tous", a very popular game show, for years. But for some time now, the ratings have been dropping significantly. Paulette is responsible for this, a contestant who has been winning for eighteen weeks and who no longer appeals to viewers, whether they are housewives, teenagers or even young dynamic executives. A solution is needed to solve the problem: eliminate her. To achieve this, Frank Petit decides to use all means, even the most vile, hoping to impose, instead, the young and sultry Cindy.
Second life
Ronnie
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his friend, what color should he buy shoes for? Life for him is an eternal dilemma. But one day, fate made a choice for him. Vansan crashes into an advertising post by car and makes a leap in time for 16 years in advance. Now at about forty, he heads a large corporation, is married to a woman with whom he is barely familiar, has a teenage son who is constantly bold to him, and an early-ripened daughter. And he has absolutely no idea what to do with all this. Realizing that he has become everything that he always despised, Vansan is desperate to go back and make the right choice. But can he turn back the clock? ..
Route de nuit
Guido
Marc, a truck driver appreciated by all his colleagues, lives with his son Lucas, 14 years old. Widowed, he assumes the parental responsibilities alone. However, he spends most of his time on the road. One day, on his way to Marseille with Lucas, a car runs a stop sign and there is an accident. Lucas gets out of it with a few scratches, but Marc falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he learns from the doctors that his optic nerve has been affected. Little by little, he loses his visual acuity until he becomes blind. Marc accepts the news and begins a different life, surrounded by his family...
Jeudi 12
Roussier
The Boys II
Laurent
Our Boys are back a year after their last adventures. This time around, the players of Quebec's most popular garage league travel to Chamonix, France, to take part in an international amateur hockey tournament.
Bingo!
André
Vincent, a great connoisseur of racing and poker, and therefore in debt, lives in a hotel, as does André who is writing his first novel. Vincent's lenders are getting more and more urgent. To repay he must participate in a big game.
Grève party
Monsieur Jean
While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.
Droit dans le mur
Jean-François
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.
Le garçon d'orage
Marcellin
Marcellin runs the vineyards on the property where he lives with his mother. Since the death of his fiancée he thinks only of his work, until the day Willie is caught stealing grapes. The young man will stay and work in the vineyard to pay his debt. Between them, the friendship slowly turns into love, making the bad tongues of the village speak until the drama that will separate them.
The Ideal Man
Paul
A volleyball professional has a hard time choosing between three different men in her life.
The Target
Jean-Pierre Bellac
A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.
Oui
Can sex make you less of an asshole? One summer, nine friends stop thinking about their sex life in the wrong way and all learn to give pleasure and to give themselves, all manage to delight and make their partner enjoy.
Delphine 1, Yvan 0
Monsieur Hattus
C'est une histoire d'amour banale présentée comme un match de foot ordinaire. Ce sont donc Thierry Roland et Jean-Michel Larqué qui commentent, avec leurs mots (d'amour) et leurs noms (d'oiseaux), la première année de vie en couple de Delphine et Yvan, filmés pas à pas, dans leurs ébats et leurs éclats.
Fantôme avec chauffeur
Marcel Bourdon
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Mémoires d'un jeune con
Damien
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role model as a 18-year-old boy.
Ma femme me quitte
Alain
Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.
Happiness Is in the Field
André le patron de l'hotel
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
The Horseman on the Roof
Maître Rigoard
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Fresh Bait
Jean-Pierre
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
L'homme de mes rêves
A garage owner arranges for his friend, an apprentice playwright, to meet a famous Parisian actor whose car has broken down in their village.
Neuf mois
Georges
Samuel est psychanalyste. Toute la journée, il voit des patients exprimer des griefs, en particulier des adolescents rebelles qui méprisent leurs parents. Cette situation l'a conduit à voir d'un mauvais œil l'idée de sa paternité. C'est alors que sa compagne Mathilde lui annonce qu'elle est enceinte. Terrifié par l'idée, Samuel vit les neuf mois de grossesse de Mathilde plutôt comme un cauchemar, et les conseils de son ami Marc, homme à femmes mais célibataire endurci, n'arrangent rien à son angoisse. De leur côté, Georges et Dominique, la sœur de Marc, déjà parents de trois filles, affrontent sans inquiétude la quatrième grossesse de Dominique. L'expérience des uns va finalement avoir raison des appréhensions des autres, et entre les deux couples vont se tisser de solides nœuds d'amitié.
Faites comme chez nous
Director
Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She returns from the United States to meet her father. With the complicity of his brother, guardian of the Monjambier's property, Georges decides to settle in the luxurious villa and to play the rich owner not to disappoint his daughter. Things get complicated when, on the one hand, two gangsters on the run take refuge in the villa, and on the other hand, Mr. Monjambier decides to try his luck with his secretary and also arrives at the villa to spend a fraudulent weekend.
Le grand jeu
A business owner has a consuming passion for gaming. He has lost almost everything and decides to sell his apartment. To do this, he must drive his wife away and put his driver in the confidence.
Great, My Parents Divorce!
père Christian
Julien, a boy in the sixth grade, was badly depressed by the divorce of his parents. But he soon found that half of the class had come from broken families.
Allo, Maman !
Life and Nothing But
Lieutenant Trévise
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Mangeuses d'hommes
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Two shipwrecked castaways discover the island they have landed upon is shared by three beautiful women living alone… who are rather hungry! (IMDb)
Angel Dust
Melchior
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
The Joint Brothers
Harky
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
Black Mic Mac
Rabuteau
This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand, let alone immigrants. In desperation, they turn to their best option to resolve this dilemma: they call for a sorcerer from home. The sorcerer hops on a jet to Paris to cast spells on the entrenched bureaucrat, and while en route he strikes up a conversation with a fellow passenger, mentioning his job pays quite well. The interested passenger could stand to make a few extra francs, so he decides to take the sorcerer's place. Once he arrives, this imposter has to act like he knows what he is doing, and at the same time, he had better solve the eviction problem.
Moi vouloir toi
Pierre Baillet
The sentimental tribulations of a radio host with the impresario of a rock band.
All Mixed Up
André Martin
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
Le Jeune Marié
Durbec
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
It Could Be Worse
Charles Murat
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
The Party 2
Etienne
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Au bout du chemin
l'assistant
The Bit Between the Teeth
Un commentateur TV
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Ciao, You Guys
Mario
L'exercice du pouvoir
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Commercials director
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.