Cast
Yves Robert
Acting
Cast
Yves Robert
Known for
Acting
Born
1920-06-21
From
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Died
2002-05-10
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.
★7.7
MOVIE1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
★6.0
MOVIE1965
Public School
as L'oncle Henri
★7.1
MOVIE1970
The Crook
as Commissioner
★7.0
MOVIE1972
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Conductor
★6.6
MOVIE1972
The Annuity
as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
★6.8
MOVIE1959
Signed, Arsène Lupin
as La Ballu
★4.9
MOVIE1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
★5.1
MOVIE1955
School for Love
as Clément
★4.6
MOVIE1972
Repeated Absences
as Le père de François
★6.5
MOVIE1974
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as le chef d'orchestre
★6.4
MOVIE1955
Bad Liaisons
as L'inspecteur Forbin
★6.1
MOVIE1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
MOVIETBA
La naissance du Grand Blond
as Self ( archive footage )
★6.5
MOVIE1971
Le Cinema de Papa
as Henri Roger Langmann
★7.1
MOVIE1975
Special Section
as Émile Bastard
★6.8
MOVIE1976
The Judge and the Assassin
as Professeur Degueldre
★6.7
MOVIE1972
Money Money Money
as Defense counsel
★6.8
MOVIE1958
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Le photographe lors du mariage
★5.6
MOVIE1983
Waiter!
as Simon, dance teacher
★10.0
MOVIE1976
Little Marcel
as Commissioner Mancini
★5.4
MOVIE1973
Hail the Artist
as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1966
King of Hearts
as General Baderna (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1949
Les Dieux du dimanche
as Guillot
★5.6
MOVIE1987
Infernal Symphony
as Narrator (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1967
Idiot in Paris
as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Follow That Man
as Inspector Paulhan
★7.4
MOVIE1980
A Bad Son
as René Calgagni
★5.9
MOVIE1971
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Commissioner
★4.7
MOVIE1979
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le père de Louise
★6.4
MOVIE1963
Bebert and the Train
as Chaussin
★5.6
MOVIE1959
The Green Mare
as Zèphe Maloret
★6.0
MOVIE1968
The Most Beautiful Month
as Le cheminot
★5.5
MOVIE1983
Vive la sociale !
as Jojo, le père
★5.6
MOVIE1979
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Workman
★6.9
MOVIE1992
The Crisis
as M. Barelle
★5.9
MOVIE1972
The Troubles of Alfred
as Parisian television viewer
★5.6
MOVIE1985
Billy Ze Kick
as Alcide
★5.4
MOVIE1961
The Fenouillard Family
as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1953
Virgile
as Esposito
★5.5
MOVIE1972
Dear Louise
as Magnéto, cycle merchant
★10.0
MOVIE1956
The Terror with Women
as Journalist Labarge
★7.5
MOVIE2020
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
★5.5
MOVIE1969
Clerambard
as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
as Accordionist
MOVIE1952
Les Bonnes Manières
★6.5
MOVIE1962
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Handkerchief Seller
★10.0
MOVIE1982
Le rose et le blanc
as Le barman des Caraïbes
★6.4
MOVIE1973
The Right of the Maddest
as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
★5.7
MOVIE1956
Les Truands
as Amédée Benoît / Son père
★3.9
MOVIE1958
The Little Professor
as Dr Aubin
★7.0
MOVIE1974
La Grande Paulette
as The first gangster
★4.7
MOVIE1951
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Charlot, le voyou
★7.0
MOVIE2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1954
Men Think Only of That
as Veteran / Walker
★6.7
MOVIE1961
The Passion of Slow Fire
as Bartender
★6.0
MOVIE1984
The Twin
as l’homme dans l'ascenseur
★5.7
MOVIE1994
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
as Léo
★5.7
MOVIE1956
An Evening at the Music Hall
as Jeff
★5.0
MOVIE1958
Women Are Talkative
as Christian
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1951
The Red Rose
as Yves Gérard
★6.0
MOVIE1970
The Man with Connections
as The Father
★5.5
MOVIE1950
Le Tampon du capiston
as Pastini
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Le Pèlerinage
★5.7
MOVIE1951
Bibi Fricotin
as Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"
★5.3
MOVIE1989
Anthony's Crime
as Pilou
★8.5
MOVIE1995
Éclats de famille
as Léon
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Paris Incident
as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
★5.8
MOVIE1958
There Is the Brunette
as Le mécanicien
★9.0
MOVIE1995
Le Nez au vent
as Raphaël