Yves Robert
Date of birth: 1920-06-21
Place of birth: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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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The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974-11-12
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy,"
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972-12-06
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret serv
A Bad Son
1980-10-14
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is a
The Troubles of Alfred
1972-03-08
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a
Bad Liaisons
1955-10-25
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by
An Evening at the Music Hall
1956-11-19
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star o
Le Cinema de Papa
1971-02-10
Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His fath
The Green Mare
1959-10-29
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war
Fiancés on the Bridge
1962-04-11
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971-02-10
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the obje
The Crisis
1992-12-02
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries t
Waiter!
1983-11-09
After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seasi
Les Dieux du dimanche
1949-02-09
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He
Paris Incident
1950-11-02
Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second nig
Love and the Frenchwoman
1960-09-16
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005-12-07
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020-11-30
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodi
Vive la sociale !
1983-10-05
A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.
The Man with Connections
1970-04-15
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Ta
Public School
1965-10-07
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class f
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
1979-03-14
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994-01-12
After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently
School for Love
1955-06-15
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor
Dear Louise
1972-09-06
Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent deat
Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959-11-11
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings com
Les Bonnes Manières
1952-06-11
The Crook
1970-11-20
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Hail the Artist
1973-12-06
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeki
Money Money Money
1972-05-04
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to person
Les Truands
1956-04-27
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belong
Repeated Absences
1972-11-01
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Bebert and the Train
1963-12-03
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his li
The Annuity
1972-01-19
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017-09-01
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970
Infernal Symphony
1987-09-16
The chance encounter between a rebel devil and a nubile angel.
Virgile
1953-11-18
Sweet Virgil believes himself to be a victim of the same bad luck that has pursued parents, grandpar
The Little Professor
1958-09-26
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945,
Men Think Only of That
1954-06-13
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman o
The Judge and the Assassin
1976-03-10
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suici
La grande Paulette
1974-04-24
This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Im
Anthony's Crime
1989-06-28
A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.
Clerambard
1969-02-17
When a cruel man is visited by Saint Francis and convinced to change his ways, his family believes h
Le nez au vent
1995-06-15
Raphael, aged 70, commits suicide. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror and of life, in
Follow That Man
1953-02-27
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases.
Women Are Talkative
1958-06-04
Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial
Idiot in Paris
1967-03-22
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris.
The Passion of Slow Fire
1961-03-02
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses path
The Twin
1984-10-10
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To
The Red Rose
1951-02-06
The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous
Bibi Fricotin
1951-01-03
To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the s
Little Marcel
1976-04-06
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group o
Le Tampon du capiston
1950-08-03
Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capist
Special Section
1975-04-23
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy governm
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951-10-31
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire ag
There Is the Brunette
1958-01-01
Germain Vignon is a used car dealer whose eloquence is such that he could sell the lousiest banger t
The Fenouillard Family
1961-01-04
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962-04-11
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958-04-23
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridicul
King of Hearts
1966-12-21
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI
Le Pèlerinage
1962-01-01
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979-06-04
Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her
The Terror with Women
1956-11-23
Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his s
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951-05-18
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One
The Most Beautiful Month
1968-06-26
The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Li
Éclats de famille
1995-09-02
Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has com
Billy Ze Kick
1985-12-18
Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads
The Right of the Maddest
1973-03-27
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who
Le rose et le blanc
1982-01-06