Madeleine Robinson
Acting
Biography
Madeleine Robinson (born Madeleine Svoboda; 5 November 1917 – 1 August 2004) was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Summer Light (both 1943), and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie petite plage (1949). Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in À double tour. In 2001, she was awarded a Molière d'honneur for her contribution to the field. Source: Article "Madeleine Robinson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: November 5, 1917
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Apostrophes
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Day by Day, Desperately
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Mozart
A miniseries about the life of Mozart.
Grisou
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
The Trial
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.
Un gosse de la butte
A young boy lives in a popular part of Paris with his mother...
Douce
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Mission to Venice
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
The Bouquinquant Brothers
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
The Ragpickers of Emmaus
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
Filmography
as Madame Lignel
as Mother of Jean
as Madame Seznec
as Mme Delalande
as Louise-Athanaise Claudel
as Betty Roussel
as Mme Lidoine (la nouvelle prieure)
as Mrs. Samsa
as Mme Meyrand
as Mme Weber
as Marie de Médicis
as Adélaïde Rougon
as La mère
as Adelaïda
as La mère
as Madame Josée
as Mère de Pauline
as self
as Self
as Self
as Caroline
as La femme du bar
as Eva
as Clara Noël
as Manager of the “Salon Trianon”
as Julia
as Margot
as Jeanne Mureau
as Hélène
as Marie Trégard
as Lucía
as Louise de Savoie
as Maud
as Germaine Messager
as Mrs. Grubach
as Mrs. Van Dorneck
as Augusta Londe
as Tilde
as Bianca
as Flore Brazier
as Thérèse Marcoux
as Mathilde Belin
as (uncredited)
as Maine Lecomte
as Julia Pradal
as Véronique Lanier
as Agatha Manosque
as Mado
as Madame Vatier
as Elisabeth Maurizius
as Self
as Madeleine Marsan
as Irène Cazenave
as Mado
as Geneviève
as Madeleine Dubreuil
as Marie
as Jeanne Gourvennec
as Fernande Josse, la femme de Charles
as La doctoresse Louise Montivier
as Lucy
as Lucienne Lusigny
as Marthe
as Élisabeth d'Anthar
as Julie Bouquinquant born Moret
as Catherine Maguet
as Madame Du Gua
as Simone
as Marthe
as Irène Comtat
as Michèle
as Henriette Rouvray
as Françoise Parker
as La réfugiée
as Denise Benoît
as Madeleine Pascard
as Simone Maravon
as La loute
as Suzanne
as Lisette
as Andrée Ruval
as Georgette Mérital
as Denise Mériel, the mother