Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine was an American French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe.

Edward Constantinowsky was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents, a Russian father and Polish mother. In pursuit of a singing career, he went to Vienna for voice training, but when he returned to America his career didnt take off and he started taking work as a film extra. Having failed to make a career in America, Constantine returned to Europe in the 1950s and started singing and performing in Parisian cabarets. He was noticed by Edith Piaf, who cast him in the musical La ptite Lili. Constantine also helped Piaf with translations for her 1956 album La Vie En Rosedith Piaf Sings In English, so that he has songwriting credits on the English versions of some of her most famous songs .

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