Yves Robert

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.

Known For

le chef d'orchestre

Le Retour du Grand Blond

Conductor

Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire

René Calgagni

Un mauvais fils

Parisian television viewer

Les Malheurs d'Alfred

L'inspecteur Forbin

Les mauvaises rencontres

Jeff

Folies-Bergère

Henri Roger Langmann

Le Cinéma de papa

Zèphe Maloret

La Jument verte

Handkerchief Seller

Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires)

Commissioner

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

M. Barelle

La Crise

Simon, dance teacher

Garçon !

Guillot

Les Dieux du dimanche

Sergeant Gaston Chauvin

Trois télégrammes

Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")

La Française et l'Amour

Self

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Self (archive footage)

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

Jojo, le père

Vive la sociale !

The Father

Le Pistonné

L'oncle Henri

La Communale

Le père de Louise

Ils sont grands, ces petits

Léo

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

Clément

Futures vedettes

Magnéto, cycle merchant

Chère Louise

La Ballu

Signé Arsène Lupin

Les Bonnes Manières

Commissioner

Le Voyou

le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)

Salut l'artiste

Defense counsel

L'Aventure c'est l'aventure

Amédée Benoît / Son père

Les Truands

Le père de François

Absences répétées

Chaussin

Bébert et l'Omnibus

Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)

Le Viager

Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Narrator (voice)

Scherzo Infernal

Esposito

Virgile

Dr Aubin

Le Petit Prof

Veteran / Walker

Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça…

Professeur Degueldre

Le Juge et l'Assassin

The first gangster

La grande Paulette

Pilou

Le crime d'Antoine

Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)

Clérambard

Raphaël

Le nez au vent

Inspector Paulhan

Suivez cet homme

Christian

Les femmes sont marrantes...

Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM

Un idiot à Paris

Bartender

La Mort de Belle

Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons

Les Grandes Manœuvres

l’homme dans l'ascenseur

Le Jumeau

Yves Gérard

La Rose rouge

Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"

Bibi Fricotin

Commissioner Mancini

Le Petit Marcel

Pastini

Le Tampon du capiston

Émile Bastard

Section spéciale

Charlot, le voyou

Deux sous de violettes

Le mécanicien

La Brune que voilà

'Le Coq' (uncredited)

La Famille Fenouillard

The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

Cléo de 5 à 7

Le photographe lors du mariage

Ni vu… Ni connu…

General Baderna (uncredited)

Le Roi de cœur

Le Pèlerinage

Workman

Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf

Journalist Labarge

La terreur des dames

Accordionist

Juliette ou La Clef des Songes

Le cheminot

Le mois le plus beau

Léon

Éclats de famille

Alcide

Billy Ze Kick

Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer

La Raison du plus fou

Le barman des Caraïbes

Le rose et le blanc