Yves Robert
Acting • Born 1920-06-21 – 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.
Filmography
80 credits
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie • 1974
le chef d'orchestre
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie • 1972
Conductor
A Bad Son
Movie • 1980
René Calgagni
The Troubles of Alfred
Movie • 1972
Parisian television viewer
Bad Liaisons
Movie • 1955
L'inspecteur Forbin
An Evening at the Music Hall
Movie • 1956
Jeff
Le Cinema de Papa
Movie • 1971
Henri Roger Langmann
The Green Mare
Movie • 1959
Zèphe Maloret
Fiancés on the Bridge
Movie • 1962
Handkerchief Seller
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Movie • 1971
Commissioner
The Crisis
Movie • 1992
M. Barelle
Waiter!
Movie • 1983
Simon, dance teacher
Les Dieux du dimanche
Movie • 1949
Guillot
Paris Incident
Movie • 1950
Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
Love and the Frenchwoman
Movie • 1960
Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Movie • 2005
Self
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Vive la sociale !
Movie • 1983
Jojo, le père
The Man with Connections
Movie • 1970
The Father
Public School
Movie • 1965
L'oncle Henri
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Movie • 1979
Le père de Louise
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
Movie • 1994
Léo
School for Love
Movie • 1955
Clément
Dear Louise
Movie • 1972
Magnéto, cycle merchant
Signed, Arsène Lupin
Movie • 1959
La Ballu
Les Bonnes Manières
Movie • 1952
The Crook
Movie • 1970
Commissioner
Hail the Artist
Movie • 1973
le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
Money Money Money
Movie • 1972
Defense counsel
Les Truands
Movie • 1956
Amédée Benoît / Son père
Repeated Absences
Movie • 1972
Le père de François
Bebert and the Train
Movie • 1963
Chaussin
The Annuity
Movie • 1972
Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
Infernal Symphony
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Virgile
Movie • 1953
Esposito
The Little Professor
Movie • 1958
Dr Aubin
Men Think Only of That
Movie • 1954
Veteran / Walker
The Judge and the Assassin
Movie • 1976
Professeur Degueldre
La Grande Paulette
Movie • 1974
The first gangster
Anthony's Crime
Movie • 1989
Pilou
Clerambard
Movie • 1969
Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
Le nez au vent
Movie • 1995
Raphaël
Follow That Man
Movie • 1953
Inspector Paulhan
Women Are Talkative
Movie • 1958
Christian
Idiot in Paris
Movie • 1967
Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
The Passion of Slow Fire
Movie • 1961
Bartender
The Grand Manoeuvre
Movie • 1955
Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
The Twin
Movie • 1984
l’homme dans l'ascenseur
The Red Rose
Movie • 1951
Yves Gérard
Bibi Fricotin
Movie • 1951
Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"
Little Marcel
Movie • 1976
Commissioner Mancini
Le Tampon du capiston
Movie • 1950
Pastini
Special Section
Movie • 1975
Émile Bastard
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Movie • 1951
Charlot, le voyou
There Is the Brunette
Movie • 1958
Le mécanicien
The Fenouillard Family
Movie • 1961
'Le Coq' (uncredited)
Cléo from 5 to 7
Movie • 1962
The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Movie • 1958
Le photographe lors du mariage
King of Hearts
Movie • 1966
General Baderna (uncredited)
Le Pèlerinage
Movie • 1962
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Movie • 1979
Workman
The Terror with Women
Movie • 1956
Journalist Labarge
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Movie • 1951
Accordionist
The Most Beautiful Month
Movie • 1968
Le cheminot
Éclats de famille
Movie • 1995
Léon
Billy Ze Kick
Movie • 1985
Alcide
The Right of the Maddest
Movie • 1973
Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
Le rose et le blanc
Movie • 1982
Le barman des Caraïbes
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV • 1990
Self
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self