Author of successful comedies like “Banzaï” and “Promotion Canapé”, screenwriter and director Didier Kaminka has died.

Actor, dialogue writer, screenwriter and director, he had worked with Pierre Richard, Coluche, Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Jugnot. He died last Tuesday at the age of 81.

The screenwriter, actor and director Didier Kaminka, known in particular for comedies Enough is enough, Banzaï And Sofa promotiondied on Tuesday at the age of 81, his son announced to AFP on Saturday September 28.

Didier Kaminka died following an illness at his home in Labbeville in Val-d’Oise, where he shot many scenes from his films. His son specified that a ceremony to pay tribute to him will be held on Friday October 4 in Paris.

Born April 22, 1943 in Paris, Didier Kaminka began his career as an actor at the end of the 1960s. In 1973, actor Pierre Richard asked him to co-write his third feature film I know nothing but I will tell everythingt, in which he plays a small role, according to the specialized site Cinécomédies.

Many successful comedies of manners followed, for which he wrote the dialogues, often in collaboration with the director Claude Zidi, such as The Under-Gifted (1980) with Daniel Auteuil and Michel Galabru, Banzai (1983) with Coluche or The kings of gag (1985) with Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte.

Didier Kaminka also places himself behind the camera, as with Sofa promotion (1990) that he realizes, that in front with The Sleeper Duval (2017) by Manuel Sanchez, where he plays a painter, for what constitutes his last appearance on screen.

“I salute the memory of a man of cinema with multiple talents who contributed to the heyday of French comedy in the 1970s and 1980s“, reacted the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, in a press release.