Yves Robert

Personal Info

Birthday

June 21, 1920

Day of Death

2002-05-10

(81 years old)

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.

Known For

Cléo from 5 to 7

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Idiot in Paris

A Bad Son

The Grand Manoeuvre

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Special Section

Filmography

2020
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor, director, producer (archive footage)
2005
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
as Self
1995
Éclats de famille
as Léon
Le nez au vent
as Raphaël
1994
Montparnasse-Pondichéry
as Léo
1992
The Crisis
as M. Barelle
1989
Anthony's Crime
as Pilou
1987
Infernal Symphony
as Narrator (voice)
1985
Billy Ze Kick
as Alcide
1984
The Twin
as l’homme dans l'ascenseur
1983
Waiter!
as Simon, dance teacher
Vive la sociale !
as Jojo, le père
1982
Le rose et le blanc
as Le barman des Caraïbes
1980
A Bad Son
as René Calgagni
1979
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Workman
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le père de Louise
1976
Little Marcel
as Commissioner Mancini
The Judge and the Assassin
as Professeur Degueldre
1975
Special Section
as Émile Bastard
1974
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as le chef d'orchestre
La grande Paulette
as The first gangster
1973
Hail the Artist
as le metteur en scène de théâtre (uncredited)
The Right of the Maddest
as Le contrôleur des Chemin de Fer
1972
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Conductor
Repeated Absences
as Le père de François
Dear Louise
as Magnéto, cycle merchant
Money Money Money
as Defense counsel
The Troubles of Alfred
as Parisian television viewer
The Annuity
as Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
1971
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Commissioner
Le Cinema de Papa
as Henri Roger Langmann
1970
The Crook
as Commissioner
The Man with Connections
as The Father
1969
Clerambard
as Dragoon who enters La Langouste's (uncredited)
1968
The Most Beautiful Month
as Le cheminot
1967
Idiot in Paris
as Marcel Pitou, l'évadé des HLM
1966
King of Hearts
as General Baderna (uncredited)
1965
Public School
as L'oncle Henri
1963
Bebert and the Train
as Chaussin
1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Handkerchief Seller / Actor in Silent Film
1961
The Passion of Slow Fire
as Bartender
The Fenouillard Family
as 'Le Coq' (uncredited)
Fiancés on the Bridge
as Handkerchief Seller
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Le dragueur à moustache (segment "Le Mariage")
1959
Signed, Arsène Lupin
as La Ballu
The Green Mare
as Zèphe Maloret
1958
The Little Professor
as Dr Aubin
Women Are Talkative
as Christian
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Le photographe lors du mariage
There Is the Brunette
as Le mécanicien
1956
The Terror with Women
as Journalist Labarge
An Evening at the Music Hall
as Jeff
Les Truands
as Amédée Benoît / Son père
1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons
Bad Liaisons
as L'inspecteur Forbin
School for Love
as Clément
1954
Men Think Only of That
as Veteran / Walker
1953
Virgile
as Esposito
Follow That Man
as Inspector Paulhan
1951
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Charlot, le voyou
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
as Accordionist
The Red Rose
as Yves Gérard
Bibi Fricotin
as Antoine Gardon, detective and surveillance "Passe Partout"
1950
Paris Incident
as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
Le Tampon du capiston
as Pastini
1949
Les Dieux du dimanche
as Guillot