Madeleine Robinson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-11-05 (87 years old)

Deathday

2004-08-01

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Madeleine Robinson

Biography

Madeleine Robinson (born Madeleine Svoboda; 5 November 1917 – 1 August 2004) was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Summer Light (both 1943), and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie peti...

Acting

1962

The Trial

as Mrs. Grubach

1978

A Simple Story

as La mère

1983

I Married a Shadow

as Mme Meyrand

1959

À double tour

as Thérèse Marcoux

1943

Summer Light

as Michèle

1949

Between Eleven and Midnight

as Lucienne Lusigny

1970

The Mad Heart

as Clara Noël

1951

1956

Mannequins of Paris

as Véronique Lanier

1936

Assault

as Georgette Mérital

1937

A Man to Kill

as Andrée Ruval

1938

Gosse de riche

as Simone Maravon

1938

Captain Benoit

as Denise Benoît

1981

Cinq-Mars

as Marie de Médicis

1942

Promise to the Unknown One

as Françoise Parker

1942

La Croisée des chemins

as Henriette Rouvray

1947

The Royalists

as Madame Du Gua

1954

On Trial

as Elisabeth Maurizius

1953

Their Last Night

as Madeleine Marsan

1947

La Grande Maguet

as Catherine Maguet

1958

Sins of Youth

as Mathilde Belin

1952

Alone in the World

as Geneviève

1962

1966

Father's Trip

as Manager of the “Salon Trianon”

1979

1993

L'Affaire Seznec

as Madame Seznec

1958

1938

Grisou

as La loute

1983

La Métamorphose

as Mrs. Samsa

1957

Demoniac

as Julia Pradal

1962

Dark Journey

as Augusta Londe

1965

A Trap for Cinderella

as Jeanne Mureau

1945

The Bellman

as Marthe

1960

The Opportunists

as Flore Brazier

1994

The Teddy Bear

as Mother of Jean

1978

Lover Boy

as Madame Josée

1958

No Escape

as (uncredited)

1995

La rage au cœur

as Madame Lignel

1962

La salamandre d'or

as Louise de Savoie

1971

1950

God Needs Men

as Jeanne Gourvennec

1938

1988

Camille Claudel

as Louise-Athanaise Claudel

1937

1953

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

as Irène Cazenave

1940

The Wonderful Night

as La réfugiée

1936

Forty Little Mothers

as Denise Mériel, the mother

1943

Douce

as Irène Comtat

1964

Mission to Venice

as Marie Trégard

1964

1971

As Far as Love Can Go

as La femme du bar

1950

Tuesday's Guest

as Fernande Josse, la femme de Charles

1972

Noix de coco

as Caroline

1966

A Young World

as Margot

1956

Passionate Summer

as Agatha Manosque

1952

The Man in My Life

as Madeleine Dubreuil

1949

The Story of Dr. Louise

as La doctoresse Louise Montivier

1948

The Bouquinquant Brothers

as Julie Bouquinquant born Moret

1979

1962

Cross of the Living

as Mme Van Dorneck

1955

The Ragpickers of Emmaus

as Madame Vatier

1988

1948

Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort

as Élisabeth d'Anthar

1984

Dialogues des Carmélites

as Mme Lidoine (la nouvelle prieure)

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