Yves Robert

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.

Cast

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

le chef d'orchestre

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Troubles of Alfred

Parisian television viewer

L'inspecteur Forbin

An Evening at the Music Hall

Le Cinema de Papa

Henri Roger Langmann

Fiancés on the Bridge

Handkerchief Seller

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

Simon, dance teacher

Les Dieux du dimanche

Sergeant Gaston Chauvin

Love and the Frenchwoman

Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

Self (archive footage)

Vive la sociale !

The Man with Connections

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

Le père de Louise

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

School for Love

Magnéto, cycle merchant

Signed, Arsène Lupin

Les Bonnes Manières

Hail the Artist

le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)

Money Money Money

Defense counsel

Amédée Benoît / Son père

Repeated Absences

Le père de François

Bebert and the Train

Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)

Infernal Symphony

Narrator (voice)

The Little Professor

Men Think Only of That

Veteran / Walker

The Judge and the Assassin

Professeur Degueldre

La grande Paulette

The first gangster

Anthony's Crime

Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)

Follow That Man

Inspector Paulhan

Women Are Talkative

Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM

The Passion of Slow Fire

The Grand Manoeuvre

Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons

l’homme dans l'ascenseur

Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"

Commissioner Mancini

Le Tampon du capiston

Special Section

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

Charlot, le voyou

There Is the Brunette

The Fenouillard Family

'Le Coq' (uncredited)

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Le photographe lors du mariage

General Baderna (uncredited)

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

The Terror with Women

Journalist Labarge

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

The Most Beautiful Month

Éclats de famille

The Right of the Maddest

Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer

Le rose et le blanc

Le barman des Caraïbes

Crew

Pardon Mon Affaire

Screenplay, Director, Producer

War of the Buttons

Director, Producer, Writer

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Director, Producer, Screenplay

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Director, Screenplay, Producer

My Mother's Castle

Director, Screenplay

My Father's Glory

Director, Writer

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Director, Writer, Producer

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Writer, Director

The Crying Woman

Bebert and the Train

Director, Writer

Very Happy Alexander

Director, Screenplay, Story, Dialogue, Adaptation

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Signed, Arsène Lupin

Director, Writer

Hail the Artist

Director, Writer

Les Bonnes Manières

The Man with One Red Shoe

Original Film Writer

Director, Screenplay

Terreur en Oklahoma

Adaptation, Idea

Trocadero Lemon Blue

The Troubles of Alfred

Fernand cherche du boulot

Men Think Only of That

The Fenouillard Family

Director, Writer

The Woman in Red

Original Film Writer

Director, Writer

The Prodigal Daughter

Winged Migration

Associate Producer

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

Repeated Absences

Little Magicians

Un étrange voyage