Yves Robert

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-06-21 (82 years old)

Deathday

2002-05-10

Place of Birth

Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France

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...

Acting

1980

A Bad Son

as René Calgagni

1972

The Troubles of Alfred

as le téléspectateur parisien

1955

Bad Liaisons

as L'inspecteur Forbin

1971

Le Cinema de Papa

as Henri Roger Langmann

1959

The Green Mare

as Zèphe Maloret

1961

Fiancés on the Bridge

as Handkerchief Seller

1992

The Crisis

as M. Barelle

1983

Waiter!

as Simon, dance teacher

1949

1950

Paris Incident

as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")

2020

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

as Self (archive footage)

1983

Vive la sociale !

as Jojo, le père

1970

1965

Public School

as L'oncle Henri

1979

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

as Le père de Louise

1955

School for Love

as Clément

1972

Dear Louise

as Magnéto, cycle merchant

1959

1970

The Crook

as Commissioner

1973

Hail the Artist

as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)

1972

Money Money Money

as Defense counsel

1956

Les Truands

as Amédée Benoît / Son père

1972

Repeated Absences

as Le père de François

1963

1972

The Annuity

as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)

2017

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)

1987

Infernal Symphony

as Narrator (voice)

1953

Virgile

as Esposito

1958

1954

Men Think Only of That

as Veteran / Walker

1976

The Judge and the Assassin

as Professeur Degueldre

1989

1969

Clerambard

as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)

1995

Le nez au vent

as Raphaël

1953

Follow That Man

as Inspector Paulhan

1958

1967

Idiot in Paris

as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM

1961

1955

The Grand Manoeuvre

as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons

1984

The Twin

as l’homme dans l'ascenseur

1951

The Red Rose

as Yves Gérard

1951

Bibi Fricotin

as Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"

1976

Little Marcel

as Commissioner Mancini

1950

1975

Special Section

as Émile Bastard

1951

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

as Charlot, le voyou

1958

There Is the Brunette

as Le mécanicien

1961

The Fenouillard Family

as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)

1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

1958

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

as Le photographe lors du mariage

1966

King of Hearts

as General Baderna (uncredited)

1956

The Terror with Women

as Journalist Labarge

1951

1968

1995

1985

Billy Ze Kick

as Alcide

1973

The Right of the Maddest

as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer

1982

Le rose et le blanc

as Le barman des Caraïbes

Production

1976

Pardon Mon Affaire

as Screenplay

1976

1962

1962

1979

Martin and Lea

as Producer

1990

1990

1990

My Mother's Castle

as Screenplay

1979

The Crying Woman

as Producer

1963

1984

The Twin

as Director

1968

1975

1992

1965

The Buddies

as Director

1990

1959

1969

Clerambard

as Director

1962

1973

Hail the Artist

as Director

1966

Funny Money

as Director

1952

1985

The Man with One Red Shoe

as Original Film Writer

1979

Courage fuyons

as Director

1951

Terreur en Oklahoma

as Adaptation

1979

Courage fuyons

as Screenplay

1973

1978

1954

1961

1984

The Woman in Red

as Original Film Writer

1969

Le Grand Amour

as Producer

1965

The Buddies

as Writer

1976

That Kid

as Producer

1986

L'été 36

as Director

1976

Little Marcel

as Producer

1981

2001

Winged Migration

as Associate Producer

1984

The Twin

as Writer

1972

1969

Clerambard

as Writer

1968

1979

The Hussy

as Producer

1968

1968

1976

1986

Little Magicians

as Director

1956

Hello Smile!

as Adaptation

1981

1988

Frequent Death

as Producer

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