Yves Robert

Yves Robert 19 June 1920 10 May 2002 was a French actor screenwriter director and producer Robert was born in Saumur MaineetLoire France In his teens he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting starting with unpaid parts on stage in the citys various theatre workshops From ages 1220 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 Roberts directorial efforts included several successful comedies for which he had written the screenplay His 1962 film La Guerre des boutons won Frances 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 Roberts 1973 devastating comedy Salut lartiste is considered by many performers to be the ultimate film about the humiliations of the actors 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 Mothers Castle Le château de ma mère and My Fathers 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 featurelength motion pictures wrote an equal number of scripts and acted in more than seventyfive films Although his last major role was perhaps in 1980 A Bad Son by Claude Sautet as the workingclass father of a drugdealer 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 colorscitation neededHe was survived by Danièle and two children Anne and JeanDenis Robert by first wife actress Rosy Varte That months Cannes Film Festival paid homage to his contribution to French film Source Article Yves Robert from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30