Kaminka, Didier

(April 22, 1943, Paris, France - )

   While studying at the Faculty of Sciences and L'Ecole Normale Supérieure, he received some acting experi­ence playing with the University Theatre. He started as a stage actor before writing a TV short (1966 A qui le Tour?, Pierre Prévert). Producer Pierre Braunberger befriended him and offered him work as a dialogist on Fantasia chez les Ploucs / Il rompiballe . . . rompe ancora (Gérard Pirès, France / Italy) and a short (En attend­ant l'Auto ... , Giselle Braunberger), both shot in 1970. He co-wrote many movies (1971 Biribi, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, Daniel Moosmann, France / Tunisia; 1973 Je sais rien . . . mais je dirai tout, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, also actor, Pierre Richard; Bête mais discipline, Claude Zidi, as co-dialogist; Les Sous-Doués, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Claude Zidi; 1982 Pour Cent Briques, t'as plus rien . . . , as author of original play, co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Edouard Molinaro; Les Sous-Doués en Vacances, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 1983 Banzaï, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, also actor; 1984 Les Ripoux / UK: Le Cop / USA: My New Partner, as dialogist, Claude Zidi;J'ai ren­contré le Père Noël / UK and USA: Here Comes Santa Claus, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Christian Gion; Le Garde du Corps, as co-screenwriter, dialogist, also actor, François Leterrier; 1985 Les Rois du Gag, as screenwriter, dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 1986 I Love You, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Marco Ferreri; Yiddish Connection, as adapter, dialogist, Paul Boujenah; 1987 Association de Malfaiteurs, as dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 1990 Ripoux contre Ripoux / UK: Le Cop 2 / USA: My New Partner II / My New Partner at the Races, as dialogist; 1991 La Totale!, as dialogist, Claude Zidi; 1993 Profil bas, as dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 2001 La Boîte, as dialogist, Claude Zidi; 2003 Ripoux 3, as co-dialogist, Claude Zidi). A film actor since 1969, he played mainly supporting roles in comedies.

 Filmography

1975 ◘ Trop, c'est trop / USA: Too Much Is Too Much (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1987 ◘ Tant qu'il y aura des Femmes (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Les Cigognes n'en font qu'à leur Tête (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Promotion Canapé (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1992 ◘ A quoi tu penses-tu? (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1996 ◘ Ma Femme me quitte / USA: My Woman Is Leav­ing Me (also screenwriter, dialogist)