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