Yves Robert

ActorProductionDirectorWriterProducer Jun 21 (died age 81) Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France 1949–2020 (71 year career)

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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, …

Known For

Film

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

Film

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Conductor

Film

My Father's Glory

Director

Film

My Mother's Castle

Director

Film

War of the Buttons

Director

Film

Winged Migration

Associate Producer

Film

The Woman in Red

Original Film Writer

Film

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

le chef d'orchestre

Filmography

Acting (80)

Movies (69)

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

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

7.0

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

2005

as Self

7.0

Le nez au vent

1995

as Raphaël

Éclats de famille

1995

as Léon

8.0

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

as Léo

The Crisis

as M. Barelle

Anthony's Crime

as Pilou

Infernal Symphony

as Narrator (voice)

Billy Ze Kick

as Alcide

The Twin

as l’homme dans l'ascenseur

6.0

Waiter!

1983

as Simon, dance teacher

Vive la sociale !

as Jojo, le père

Le rose et le blanc

as Le barman des Caraïbes

A Bad Son

1980

as René Calgagni

7.4

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

1979

as Workman

5.6

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

1979

as Le père de Louise

4.3

The Judge and the Assassin

1976

as Professeur Degueldre

6.8

Little Marcel

1976

as Commissioner Mancini

Special Section

1975

as Émile Bastard

7.1

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974

as le chef d'orchestre

6.5

La Grande Paulette

1974

as The first gangster

Hail the Artist

1973

as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)

5.3

The Right of the Maddest

1973

as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer

5.8

The Annuity

1972

as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)

6.6

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

as Conductor

7.0

Dear Louise

1972

as Magnéto, cycle merchant

Money Money Money

as Defense counsel

Repeated Absences

as Le père de François

4.3

The Troubles of Alfred

1972

as Parisian television viewer

5.8

Le Cinema de Papa

1971

as Henri Roger Langmann

6.3

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

as Commissioner

The Crook

as Commissioner

The Man with Connections

1970

as The Father

5.8

Clerambard

1969

as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)

5.2

The Most Beautiful Month

1968

as Le cheminot

4.0

Idiot in Paris

1967

as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM

6.5

King of Hearts

1966

as General Baderna (uncredited)

Public School

as L'oncle Henri

Bebert and the Train

as Chaussin

Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film

7.7

Fiancés on the Bridge

1962

as Handkerchief Seller

6.5

Le Pèlerinage

1962

7.0

The Fenouillard Family

1961

as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)

5.1

The Passion of Slow Fire

1961

as Bartender

6.6

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

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

The Green Mare

as Zèphe Maloret

Signed, Arsène Lupin

as La Ballu

There Is the Brunette

1958

as Le mécanicien

5.0

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

1958

as Le photographe lors du mariage

Women Are Talkative

as Christian

The Little Professor

as Dr Aubin

The Terror with Women

1956

as Journalist Labarge

Les Truands

1956

as Amédée Benoît / Son père

4.5

An Evening at the Music Hall

as Jeff

School for Love

as Clément

The Grand Manoeuvre

as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons

6.0

Bad Liaisons

1955

as L'inspecteur Forbin

6.0

Men Think Only of That

as Veteran / Walker

Follow That Man

as Inspector Paulhan

Virgile

as Esposito

Les Bonnes Manières

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

1951

as Accordionist

7.0

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

as Charlot, le voyou

The Red Rose

as Yves Gérard

Bibi Fricotin

as Antoine Gardon, détective "Passe Partout"

5.0

Paris Incident

1950

as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin

Le Tampon du capiston

1950

as Pastini

1.0

Les Dieux du dimanche

1949

as Guillot

Television (11)

Stars 90

as Self

Les Nuls, l'émission

as Self

Sacrée Soirée

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

Discorama

as Self

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0

Crew (69)

Movies (69)

Winged Migration

2001

Associate Producer

7.6

Montparnasse-Pondichéry

1994

Director

5.5

Le Bal des casse-pieds

1992

Director

5.8

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Writer

My Mother's Castle

Director

My Mother's Castle

Screenplay

My Father's Glory

Director

My Father's Glory

Writer

Frequent Death

Producer

L'été 36

Director

L'été 36

Writer

Little Magicians

Director

The Man with One Red Shoe

Original Film Writer

The Woman in Red

Original Film Writer

The Twin

Director

The Twin

Writer

Un étrange voyage

Producer

The Prodigal Daughter

Producer

The Hussy

Producer

The Crying Woman

Producer

Courage fuyons

Director

Courage fuyons

Screenplay

Martin and Lea

Producer

Trocadero Lemon Blue

Producer

We Will All Meet in Paradise

1977

Director

6.7

We Will All Meet in Paradise

1977

Producer

6.7

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Writer

That Kid

Producer

Pardon Mon Affaire

Director

Pardon Mon Affaire

Producer

Pardon Mon Affaire

Screenplay

Little Marcel

Producer

Let Joy Reign Supreme

1975

Producer

6.4

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974

Director

6.5

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974

Producer

6.5

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Screenplay

Hail the Artist

Director

Hail the Artist

Writer

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

Director

7.0

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

Producer

7.0

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Screenplay

Repeated Absences

Producer

The Troubles of Alfred

Writer

Clerambard

Director

Clerambard

Writer

Le Grand Amour

Producer

Very Happy Alexander

Adaptation

Very Happy Alexander

Dialogue

Very Happy Alexander

Director

Very Happy Alexander

Screenplay

Very Happy Alexander

Story

Funny Money

Director

The Buddies

Director

The Buddies

Writer

Bebert and the Train

Director

War of the Buttons

Director

War of the Buttons

Producer

War of the Buttons

Writer

The Fenouillard Family

1961

Director

5.1

The Fenouillard Family

Writer

Signed, Arsène Lupin

Director

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

1958

Director

6.9

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Writer

Hello Smile!

Adaptation

Men Think Only of That

1954

Director

5.8

Fernand cherche du boulot

1954

Director

6.5

Les Bonnes Manières

1952

Director

Terreur en Oklahoma

1951

Adaptation

Terreur en Oklahoma

1951

Idea