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Yves Robert

Acting

🎂 1920-06-21

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.

Cast credits(80)

Self

1982

Self

1972

Self

1956

Self

1959

Self

1974

Self

1987

Self

1975

Self

1972

Self

1971

Self

1990

Self

1990

Le dragueur Ă  moustache (segment "Le Mariage")

1960

The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

1962

Simon, dance teacher

1983

Zèphe Maloret

1959

M. Barelle

1992

Conductor

1972

Professeur Degueldre

1976

Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM

1967

Le photographe lors du mariage

1958

Clément

1955

le chef d'orchestre

1974

René Calgagni

1980

General Baderna (uncredited)

1966

Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons

1955

Émile Bastard

1975

Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)

1972

le téléspectateur parisien

1972

Handkerchief Seller

1961

l’homme dans l'ascenseur

1984

Magnéto, cycle merchant

1972

Self (archive footage)

2020

Accordionist

1951

Defense counsel

1972

Pastini

1950

Léo

1994

Commissioner

1970

Jeff

1956

Amédée Benoît / Son père

1956

Guillot

1949

Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)

1969

Chaussin

1963

Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)

2017

'Le Coq' (uncredited)

1961

Workman

1979

La Ballu

1959

Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"

1951

Esposito

1953

L'inspecteur Forbin

1955

Commissioner

1971

Inspector Paulhan

1953

Le père de Louise

1979

Le contrĂ´leur des Chemin de Fer

1973

Bartender

1961

The Father

1970

le metteur en scène de théâtre (non crédité)

1973

Le père de François

1972

Henri Roger Langmann

1971

Dr Aubin

1958

Commissioner Mancini

1976

Sergeant Gaston Chauvin

1950

Alcide

1985

Christian

1958

Journalist Labarge

1956

Charlot, le voyou

1951

L'oncle Henri

1965

Veteran / Walker

1954

Jojo, le père

1983

1962

Yves Gérard

1951

Pilou

1989

Self

2005

Le cheminot

1968

Narrator (voice)

1987

1974

1952

Léon

1995

Le barman des CaraĂŻbes

1982

Le mécanicien

1958

Raphaël

1995

Writing (25)

Directing (25)

Production (17)