Jacques Robert (writer)

Jacques Robert (June 27, 1921 – August 11, 1997)[1] was a French author, screenwriter and journalist.[2]

Jacques Robert
Born(1921-06-27)27 June 1921
Lyon, France
Died11 August 1997(1997-08-11) (aged 76)
Rouen, France
OccupationJournalist, Novelist, Screenwriter
LanguageFrench
GenreScreenplays, novels, crime fiction, essays
Notable worksMarie-Octobre (1948)
Le Gorille vous salue bien (1958)
Someone Behind the Door (1971)

Biography

Jacques Robert was born on 27 June 1921 in Lyon, France. He started his writing career as a journalist. In May 1945 Jacques Robert was the only Western journalist to descend into Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany.
During his career he wrote more than 40 books and novels. Around twenty of his novels have been adapted for cinema, notably The Long Teeth directed by Daniel Gélin, Marie-Octobre directed by Julien Duvivier and Someone Behind the Door with Charles Bronson and Anthony Perkins.[3] Jacques Robert was also a prolific screenwriter for film and television.[4]

He died in Rouen in 1997 at the age of 76.[3]

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

Publications
  • L'Invitation à la vie (1942)
  • Les Tragédiennes (1944)
  • Marie-Octobre (1948)
  • Les Dents longues (1950)
  • La Machination (1951)
  • Le Désordre et la Nuit (1955)
  • Une tragédie parisienne (1957)
  • Le Gigolo (1959)
  • Les Femmes du monde (1961)
  • L'Appartement des filles (1963)
  • Les Bonnes Âmes (1964)
  • Le Pétard du diable (1965)
  • Roulette russe (1966)
  • Le Dangereux Été (1968)
  • Rupture (1968)
  • La Dragée haute (1969)
  • Si ma mémoire est bonne. 1 (1969)
  • Si ma mémoire est bonne. 2, Mon après-guerre (1969)
  • Terreur à Tarragone (1969)
  • Dictionnaire des Parisiens (1970)
  • Les Cadets de Saumur (1970)
  • Le Grand Serre (1971)
  • Les Grandes Orgues (1973)
  • À vous de jouer, Milord ! (1974)
  • Les Gens de l'immeuble (1975)
  • Quelqu'un derrière la porte (1975)
  • Si ma mémoire est bonne. 3, Ma clé des champs (1976)
  • Les Démons de minuit (1977)
  • La Femme dans l'ombre (1979)
  • Les Invités (1982)
  • Le Méchant (1984)
  • Adieu (cher poison (1986)
  • L'Évasion d'Adolf Hitler (1989)
  • Si ma mémoire est bonne. 4, les Stars de mes nuits (1991)
gollark: English is awful because we mostly overanalyze literature and write essays and stuff, but we did writing one time and that was fun.
gollark: A lot of the chemistry and physics stuff we do at school is... somewhat interesting at first, but we end up going over it again and again and doing endless worksheets for some reason, which is not very interesting.
gollark: They might actually be actively negative in some areas, since for quite a lot of people being forced to learn the boring stuff they don't care about will make them ignore the interesting bits.
gollark: Personally I figure that schools are wildly inefficient at actually transmitting knowledge and skills anyway, so meh.
gollark: It would just be exam revision for me at school, being year 11, so not much actual learning anyway.

References
  1. "Notice de personne Robert, Jacques (1921-1997)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  2. "JACQUES ROBERT, écrivain, scénariste et dialoguiste". Le Monde (in French). 15 August 1997. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. "l'Humanité". DÉCÈS DE JACQUES ROBERT (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. "Jacques ROBERT". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
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