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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Known for
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Midi trente
Self
Stars 90
Self
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
Léo
Women Are Talkative
Christian
Paris Incident
Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
An Evening at the Music Hall
Jeff
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
Bibi Fricotin
Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"
The Annuity
Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
Waiter!
Simon, dance teacher
School for Love
Clément
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Conductor
Dear Louise
Magnéto, cycle merchant
Repeated Absences
Le père de François
King of Hearts
General Baderna (uncredited)
Les Truands
Amédée Benoît / Son père
The Crook
Commissioner
Love and the Frenchwoman
Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
Special Section
Émile Bastard
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
le chef d'orchestre
Idiot in Paris
Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
The Twin
l’homme dans l'ascenseur
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Accordionist
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Workman
The Green Mare
Zèphe Maloret
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Le photographe lors du mariage
Bebert and the Train
Chaussin
Clerambard
Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
The Judge and the Assassin
Professeur Degueldre
The Passion of Slow Fire
Bartender
Money Money Money
Defense counsel
Virgile
Esposito
The Troubles of Alfred
Parisian television viewer
Le Tampon du capiston
Pastini
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Commissioner
Public School
L'oncle Henri
A Bad Son
René Calgagni
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
Hail the Artist
le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
Bad Liaisons
L'inspecteur Forbin
The Crisis
M. Barelle
The Terror with Women
Journalist Labarge
Le rose et le blanc
Le barman des Caraïbes
Fiancés on the Bridge
Handkerchief Seller
Signed, Arsène Lupin
La Ballu
The Grand Manoeuvre
Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
The Right of the Maddest
Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
Éclats de famille
Léon
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Le père de Louise
Le Cinema de Papa
Henri Roger Langmann
The Little Professor
Dr Aubin
Follow That Man
Inspector Paulhan
The Red Rose
Yves Gérard
The Fenouillard Family
'Le Coq' (uncredited)
La grande Paulette
The first gangster
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Self
The Most Beautiful Month
Le cheminot
The Man with Connections
The Father
Le Pèlerinage
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Charlot, le voyou
Le nez au vent
Raphaël
Little Marcel
Commissioner Mancini
Billy Ze Kick
Alcide
Men Think Only of That
Veteran / Walker
Infernal Symphony
Narrator (voice)
Les Dieux du dimanche
Guillot
Anthony's Crime
Pilou
Les Bonnes Manières
Vive la sociale !
Jojo, le père
There Is the Brunette
Le mécanicien
Champs-Elysées
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Sacrée Soirée
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Discorama
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Samedi soir
Self
Les Nuls, l'émission
Self