
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.
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Acting (68 movies)

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972

A Bad Son
1980

The Troubles of Alfred
1972

Bad Liaisons
1955

An Evening at the Music Hall
1956

Le Cinema de Papa
1971

The Green Mare
1959

Fiancés on the Bridge
1961

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971

The Crisis
1992

Waiter!
1983

Les Dieux du dimanche
1949

Paris Incident
1950

Love and the Frenchwoman
1960

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020

Vive la sociale !
1983

The Man with Connections
1970

Public School
1965

These Kids Are Grown-Ups
1979

Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994

School for Love
1955

Dear Louise
1972

Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959

Les Bonnes Manières
1952

The Crook
1970

Hail the Artist
1973

Money Money Money
1972

Les Truands
1956

Repeated Absences
1972

Bebert and the Train
1963

The Annuity
1972

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

Infernal Symphony
1987

Virgile
1953

The Little Professor
1958

Men Think Only of That
1954

The Judge and the Assassin
1976

La grande Paulette
1974

Anthony's Crime
1989

Clerambard
1969

Le nez au vent
1995

Follow That Man
1953

Women Are Talkative
1958

Idiot in Paris
1967

The Passion of Slow Fire
1961

The Grand Manoeuvre
1955

The Twin
1984

The Red Rose
1951

Bibi Fricotin
1951

Little Marcel
1976

Le Tampon du capiston
1950

Special Section
1975

Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951

There Is the Brunette
1958

The Fenouillard Family
1961

Cléo from 5 to 7
1962

Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958

King of Hearts
1966

Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979

The Terror with Women
1956

Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951

The Most Beautiful Month
1968

Éclats de famille
1995

Billy Ze Kick
1985

The Right of the Maddest
1973

Le rose et le blanc
1982
Directing (25 movies)

Pardon Mon Affaire
1976

War of the Buttons
1962

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972

My Mother's Castle
1990

My Father's Glory
1990

We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977

Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958

Bebert and the Train
1963

The Twin
1984

Very Happy Alexander
1968

Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992

The Buddies
1965

Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959

Clerambard
1969

Hail the Artist
1973

Funny Money
1966

Les Bonnes Manières
1952

Courage fuyons
1979

Fernand cherche du boulot
1954

Men Think Only of That
1954

The Fenouillard Family
1961
L'été 36
1986

Montparnasse-Pondichéry
1994
Little Magicians
1986