Coming from the world of rugby, at the age of 19, he began a career in the music hall . For four years, he toured the Parisian cabarets and then went to Brussels where he hosted the evenings of "Broadway", "Parisiana" and, above all, "La Gaîté".
He was a French actor and humorist from Gaity (a former cabaret in Brussels).
Committed to Belgian Radio Television (RTB), he hosted the programs Music-parade , Chansons à la carte, and L'Escarpolette launched by Nicolas Résimont.
A great friend of Jacques Brel , Édouard Caillau played a role in his films 'Le Far-West', and 'Franz'.
In Biarritz , in the Square Jean-Baptiste Lassalle, there is a small monument to his memory: he regularly came to play boules there .