Yves Robert
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.
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Fotos
Películas (100)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020 · Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005 · Self
Winged Migration
2001 · Associate Producer
Éclats de famille
1995 · Léon
Le Nez au vent
1995 · Raphaël
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994 · Léo, Director
The Crisis
1992 · M. Barelle
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992 · Director, Writer
My Mother's Castle
1990 · Director, Screenplay
My Father's Glory
1990 · Director, Writer
Anthony's Crime
1989 · Pilou
Frequent Death
1988 · Producer
Infernal Symphony
1987 · Narrator (voice)
L'Été 36
1986 · Director, Writer
Little Magicians
1986 · Director
Billy Ze Kick
1985 · Alcide
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985 · Original Film Writer
The Twin
1984 · l’homme dans l'ascenseur, Director, Writer
The Woman in Red
1984 · Original Film Writer
Waiter!
1983 · Simon, dance teacher
Vive la sociale !
1983 · Jojo, le père
Le rose et le blanc
1982 · Le barman des Caraïbes
The Prodigal Daughter
1981 · Producer
Un étrange voyage
1981 · Producer
A Bad Son
1980 · René Calgagni
Courage fuyons
1979 · Director, Screenplay
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979 · Workman
The Hussy
1979 · Producer
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
1979 · Le père de Louise
Martin and Lea
1979 · Producer
The Crying Woman
1979 · Producer
Trocadero Lemon Blue
1978 · Producer
The Little Wheedlers
1978 · Producer
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977 · Director, Writer, Producer
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Fill 'er Up with Super
1976 · Executive Producer
Little Marcel
1976 · Commissioner Mancini, Producer
The Judge and the Assassin
1976 · Professeur Degueldre
That Kid
1976 · Producer
Special Section
1975 · Émile Bastard
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 · Producer
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974 · le chef d'orchestre, Director, Producer, Screenplay
La Grande Paulette
1974 · The first gangster
Hail the Artist
1973 · le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited), Director, Writer
The Right of the Maddest
1973 · Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972 · Conductor, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Repeated Absences
1972 · Le père de François, Producer
Dear Louise
1972 · Magnéto, cycle merchant
Money Money Money
1972 · Defense counsel
The Troubles of Alfred
1972 · Parisian television viewer, Writer
The Annuity
1972 · Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
Le Cinema de Papa
1971 · Henri Roger Langmann
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971 · Commissioner
The Crook
1970 · Commissioner
The Man with Connections
1970 · The Father
Le Grand Amour
1969 · Producer
Clerambard
1969 · Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited), Director, Writer
The Most Beautiful Month
1968 · Le cheminot
Very Happy Alexander
1968 · Director, Screenplay, Story, Dialogue, Adaptation
Idiot in Paris
1967 · Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
King of Hearts
1966 · General Baderna (uncredited)
Funny Money
1966 · Director
Public School
1965 · L'oncle Henri
The Buddies
1965 · Director, Writer
Bebert and the Train
1963 · Chaussin, Director
War of the Buttons
1962 · Director, Producer, Writer
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962 · Handkerchief Seller
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
Le Pèlerinage
1962
The Passion of Slow Fire
1961 · Bartender
The Fenouillard Family
1961 · 'Le Coq' (uncredited), Director, Writer
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960 · Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959 · La Ballu, Director
The Green Mare
1959 · Zèphe Maloret
The Little Professor
1958 · Dr Aubin
Women Are Talkative
1958 · Christian
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 · Le photographe lors du mariage, Writer, Director
There Is the Brunette
1958 · Le mécanicien
The Terror with Women
1956 · Journalist Labarge
An Evening at the Music Hall
1956 · Jeff
Les Truands
1956 · Amédée Benoît / Son père
Hello Smile!
1956 · Adaptation
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955 · Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
Bad Liaisons
1955 · L'inspecteur Forbin
School for Love
1955 · Clément
Fernand cherche du boulot
1954 · Director
Men Think Only of That
1954 · Veteran / Walker, Director
Virgile
1953 · Esposito
Follow That Man
1953 · Inspector Paulhan
Les Bonnes Manières
1952 · Director
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951 · Charlot, le voyou
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951 · Accordionist
Terreur en Oklahoma
1951 · Adaptation, Idea
The Red Rose
1951 · Yves Gérard
Bibi Fricotin
1951 · Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"
Paris Incident
1950 · Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
Le Tampon du capiston
1950 · Pastini
Les Dieux du dimanche
1949 · Guillot
La naissance du Grand Blond
· Self ( archive footage )
