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Yves Robert
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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 bout…
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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.
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Yves Robert's Filmography
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self
Éclats de famille
as Léon
Le Nez au vent
as Raphaël
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
as Léo
The Crisis
as M. Barelle
Anthony's Crime
as Pilou
Infernal Symphony
as Narrator (voice)
Billy Ze Kick
as Alcide
The Twin
as l’homme dans l'ascenseur
Waiter!
as Simon, dance teacher
Vive la sociale !
as Jojo, le père
Le rose et le blanc
as Le barman des Caraïbes
A Bad Son
as René Calgagni
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Workman
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le père de Louise
Little Marcel
as Commissioner Mancini
The Judge and the Assassin
as Professeur Degueldre
Special Section
as Émile Bastard
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as le chef d'orchestre
La Grande Paulette
as The first gangster
Hail the Artist
as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
The Right of the Maddest
as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Conductor
Repeated Absences
as Le père de François
Dear Louise
as Magnéto, cycle merchant
Money Money Money
as Defense counsel
The Troubles of Alfred
as Parisian television viewer
The Annuity
as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
Le Cinema de Papa
as Henri Roger Langmann
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Commissioner
The Crook
as Commissioner
The Man with Connections
as The Father
Clerambard
as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
The Most Beautiful Month
as Le cheminot
Idiot in Paris
as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
King of Hearts
as General Baderna (uncredited)
Public School
as L'oncle Henri
Bebert and the Train
as Chaussin
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Handkerchief Seller
No Poster
Le Pèlerinage
The Passion of Slow Fire
as Bartender
The Fenouillard Family
as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
Signed, Arsène Lupin
as La Ballu
The Green Mare
as Zèphe Maloret
The Little Professor
as Dr Aubin
Women Are Talkative
as Christian
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Le photographe lors du mariage
There Is the Brunette
as Le mécanicien
The Terror with Women
as Journalist Labarge
An Evening at the Music Hall
as Jeff
Les Truands
as Amédée Benoît / Son père
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
Bad Liaisons
as L'inspecteur Forbin
School for Love
as Clément
Men Think Only of That
as Veteran / Walker
Virgile
as Esposito
Follow That Man
as Inspector Paulhan
Les Bonnes Manières
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Charlot, le voyou
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
as Accordionist
The Red Rose
as Yves Gérard
Bibi Fricotin
as Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"
Paris Incident
as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
Le Tampon du capiston
as Pastini
Les Dieux du dimanche
as Guillot
La naissance du Grand Blond
as Self ( archive footage )