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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 21, 1920
Died
May 10, 2002
Place of Birth
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Yves Robert
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Biography
Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. From ages 12–20 he set type as a typographer, then studied mime in his early 20s. In 1948 he made his motion picture debut with one of the secondary roles in the film, Les Dieux du dimanche. Within a few years, Robert was writing scripts, directing, and producing. Yves Robert's directorial efforts included several successful comedies for which he had written the screenplay. His 1962 film, La Guerre des boutons won France's Prix Jean Vigo. His 1972 film Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1973. In 1976, Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, starring his wife, earned him international acclaim. Robert's 1973 devastating comedy Salut l'artiste is considered by many performers to be the ultimate film about the humiliations of the actor's life. In 1977, he directed another comedy, Nous irons tous au paradis, which was nominated for a César Award for Best Film. In 1990, Robert directed two dramatic films, My Mother's Castle (Le château de ma mère) and My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon Père). Based on autobiographical novels by Marcel Pagnol, they were jointly voted "Best Film" at the 1991 Seattle International Film Festival, and received rave reviews. Over his career, he directed more than twenty feature-length motion pictures, wrote an equal number of scripts, and acted in more than seventy-five films. Although his last major role was perhaps in 1980, A Bad Son by Claude Sautet, as the working-class father of a drug-dealer, he continued acting past 1997. Robert played opposite Danièle Delorme in the 1951 play Colombe (Dove) by Jean Anouilh. They married in 1956, and jointly formed the film production company La Guéville in 1961. La Guéville also released several films by Monty Python and Terry Gilliam, which was very influential into establishing the comedy troupe to French audiences. He died in Paris on 10 May 2002 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery with the epitaph "A man of joy ...", where visitors leave buttons of many colors.[citation needed]He was survived by Danièle and two children, Anne and Jean-Denis Robert, by first wife, actress Rosy Varte. That month's Cannes Film Festival paid homage to his contribution to French film. Source: Article "Yves Robert" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
7.0
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
7.0
Self
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
8.0
Léon
Éclats de famille
1995
0.0
Raphaël
Le nez au vent
1995
5.5
Léo
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994
6.9
M. Barelle
The Crisis
1992
8.3
Self
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
6.2
Self
Stars 90
1990
3.5
Pilou
Anthony's Crime
1989
Credits
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.5
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self
2005
7.0
Éclats de famille
as Léon
1995
8.0
Le nez au vent
as Raphaël
1995
0.0
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
as Léo
1994
5.5
The Crisis
as M. Barelle
1992
6.9
Les Nuls, l'émission
as Self
1990
8.3
Stars 90
as Self
1990
6.2
Anthony's Crime
as Pilou
1989
3.5
Infernal Symphony
as Narrator (voice)
1987
5.5
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Billy Ze Kick
as Alcide
1985
4.8
The Twin
as l’homme dans l'ascenseur
1984
6.0
Waiter!
as Simon, dance teacher
1983
5.5
Vive la sociale !
as Jojo, le père
1983
5.1
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Le rose et le blanc
as Le barman des Caraïbes
1982
0.0
A Bad Son
as René Calgagni
1980
7.4
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Workman
1979
5.6
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le père de Louise
1979
4.3
Little Marcel
as Commissioner Mancini
1976
0.0
The Judge and the Assassin
as Professeur Degueldre
1976
6.8
Special Section
as Émile Bastard
1975
7.1
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as le chef d'orchestre
1974
6.5
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
La grande Paulette
as The first gangster
1974
0.0
Hail the Artist
as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
1973
5.3
The Right of the Maddest
as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
1973
5.8
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Conductor
1972
7.0
Repeated Absences
as Le père de François
1972
4.3
Dear Louise
as Magnéto, cycle merchant
1972
5.1
Money Money Money
as Defense counsel
1972
6.7
The Troubles of Alfred
as Parisian television viewer
1972
5.8
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
The Annuity
as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
1972
6.6
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Le Cinema de Papa
as Henri Roger Langmann
1971
6.3
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Commissioner
1971
5.9
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
The Crook
as Commissioner
1970
7.1
The Man with Connections
as The Father
1970
5.8
Clerambard
as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
1969
5.2
The Most Beautiful Month
as Le cheminot
1968
4.0
Idiot in Paris
as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
1967
6.5
King of Hearts
as General Baderna (uncredited)
1966
6.9
Public School
as L'oncle Henri
1965
5.0
Bebert and the Train
as Chaussin
1963
6.3
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
1962
7.7
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Handkerchief Seller
1962
6.5
🎬
Le Pèlerinage
1962
7.0
The Passion of Slow Fire
as Bartender
1961
6.6
The Fenouillard Family
as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)
1961
5.1
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
1960
4.5
Signed, Arsène Lupin
as La Ballu
1959
6.8
The Green Mare
as Zèphe Maloret
1959
5.5
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
The Little Professor
as Dr Aubin
1958
2.7
Women Are Talkative
as Christian
1958
3.5
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Le photographe lors du mariage
1958
6.9
There Is the Brunette
as Le mécanicien
1958
5.0
The Terror with Women
as Journalist Labarge
1956
0.0
An Evening at the Music Hall
as Jeff
1956
4.9
Les Truands
as Amédée Benoît / Son père
1956
4.5
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
1955
6.0
Bad Liaisons
as L'inspecteur Forbin
1955
6.0
School for Love
as Clément
1955
4.8
Men Think Only of That
as Veteran / Walker
1954
5.8
Virgile
as Esposito
1953
4.2
Follow That Man
as Inspector Paulhan
1953
6.1
Les Bonnes Manières
1952
0.0
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Charlot, le voyou
1951
3.0
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
as Accordionist
1951
7.0
The Red Rose
as Yves Gérard
1951
5.1
Bibi Fricotin
as Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"
1951
5.0
Paris Incident
as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
1950
0.0
Le Tampon du capiston
as Pastini
1950
1.0
Les Dieux du dimanche
as Guillot
1949
0.0