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Jacques Robert

Writer, Additional Credits
Born June 27, 1921Died August 11, 1997 (76 years)
Jacques Robert (June 27, 1921 – August 11, 1997) was a French author, screenwriter and journalist.

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 20 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. Jacques Robert was also a prolific screenwriter for film and television.

He died in Rouen in 1997 at the age of 76.

Source: Article "Jacques Robert (writer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Someone Behind the Door

Known For

  • Someone Behind the Door
  • Marie-Octobre
  • The Seventh Juror
  • The Night Affair
  • Maigret voit rouge
  • The Black Monocle
  • The Scheming Women
  • 125 rue Montmartre
  • The Monocle
  • The Eye of the Monocle
  • The Nina B. Affair
  • The Majordomo
  • The Mask of the Gorilla
  • Girl's Apartment
  • The Arnauds
  • Doctor Justice
  • To Commit a Murder
  • Secret Obsession
  • Le feu aux poudres
  • The Adventures of Scaramouche
  • Love and the Frenchwoman
  • Train d'enfer
  • The Long Teeth
  • Marie Octobre

Jacques Robert Filmography

1989
1981
Wettlauf nach Bombay (TV Series) · as Novel
1975
Doctor Justice · as Screenplay
1973
1971
1967
To Commit a Murder · as Novel
1965
Train d'enfer · as Screenplay
1965
Fire at Will · as Screenplay
1964
1963
Girl's Apartment · as Novel
1963
1963
Miss Shumway Goes West · as Screenplay
1962
1962
1960
1960
1959
1959
1959
Gorilla's Waltz · as Screenplay
1959
Marie-Octobre · as Novel
1958
1958
The Night Affair · as Novel
1957
1956
1956
Defend My Love · as Screenplay

2015
1975
Sunday meetings (TV Series) · as Self
1975
Apostrophes (TV Series) · as Self
1964
Filmmakers of our time (TV Series) · as Self

2008
Marie Octobre · as Earlier Screenplay
1980
Achtung Zoll! (TV Series) · as Dialogue
1978
Vice Squad · as Scenario Writer
1972
Les évasions célèbres (TV Series) · as Adaptation
1967
The Arnauds · as Dialogue
1966
At the Theater Tonight (TV Series) · as Play
1965
The Majordomo · as Original Scenario
1964
The Monocle · as Adaptation
1963
Maigret voit rouge · as Adaptation
1962
Assassin in the Phonebook · as Adaptation
1961
The Black Monocle · as Dialogue
1961
The Nina B. Affair · as Dialogue
1954
The Scheming Women · as Novel "la Machination"
1953
The Long Teeth · as Book

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