Daniel Prévost (born 20 October 1939) is a French actor, comedian and writer.
Early life

Daniel Prévost, alias Denis Forestier, was born to Micheline Chevalier and Mohand Ait Salem. His father was of Berber descent from
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Kabylie
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region), a fact which he did not discover until later life.
Daniel Prevost. Dernières nouvelles du père inconnu
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Personal life
He is the father of actors Sören Prévost, Erling Prévost and Christophe Prévost.
Career
After attending drama school in Paris, Prévost made his theatre début alongside the likes of Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
Life and career
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's '' Les ...
in ''Un certain M. Blot''. In his early beginnings he both performed alongside Boby Lapointe and became acquainted with Jean Yanne, later becoming one of the latter's favourite actors.
Although his television and cinema career began in the 1960s, it was in the 1970s that he found fame through Jacques Martin's satirical news programme ''Le petit rapporteur'', the part for which he is best known.
He excelled as an evilly leering tax inspector – "he'd audit his own mother" in Francis Veber
Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer ...
's 1998 comedy ''Le Dîner de Cons
''Le Dîner de Cons'' () is a French comedy play by Francis Veber.
Story
Pierre Brochant, a Parisian publisher, attends a weekly "idiots' dinner", where guests, who are prominent Parisian businessmen, must bring along an "idiot" whom the other ...
'' for which he won the César Award Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
* César Award, a French film award
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* Ce ...
for best supporting actor.
Filmography
Theater
References
External links
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1939 births
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors
French male stage actors
French people of Kabyle descent
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
French humorists
Best Supporting Actor César Award winners