Jacques Robert (writer)

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

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. <br/>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.

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)

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• Madelon (1955)
• Difendo il mio amore (1956)
• Quand vient l'amour (1956)
• Burning Fuse (1957)
• The Mask of the Gorilla (1958, based on the novel Le Gorille vous salue bien by Antoine Dominique)
• La Valse du Gorille (1959, based on the novel La Valse du Gorille by Antoine Dominique)
• 125 Rue Montmartre (1959, based on the novel 125, rue Montmartre by André Gillois)
• Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959)
• The Nina B. Affair (1961, based on the novel Affäre Nina B. by Johannes Mario Simmel)
• The Black Monocle (1961, based on the novel Le Monocle noir by Colonel Rémy)
• L'assassin est dans l'annuaire (1962, based on the novel Cet imbécile de Ludovic by Charles Exbrayat)
• The Seventh Juror (1962, based on the novel Le Septième juré by Francis Didelot)
• The Eye of the Monocle (1962, based on the Monocle noir novels by Colonel Rémy)
• Miss Shumway Goes West (1963, based on the novel Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase)
• Maigret Sees Red (1963, based on the novel Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters by Georges Simenon)
• Mission to Venice (1964, based on the novel Mission To Venice by James Hadley Chase)
• The Monocle Laughs (1964, based on the Monocle noir novels by Colonel Rémy)
• Faites vos jeux, mesdames (1965)
• The Majordomo (1965)
• Operation Double Cross (1965, based on a novel by René Cambon)
• Les Arnaud (1967)
• Les Hommes (1973)
• Docteur Justice (1975, based on the comics series Docteur Justice by Jean Ollivier and Carlo Raffaele Marcello)
• Victims of Vice (1978, based on the Brigade mondaine novels by Michel Brice edited by Gérard de Villiers)
• Champagne amer (1986)

Film adaptations

• The Long Teeth (1953, based on the novel Les Dents longues)
• Les Intrigantes (1954, based on the novel La Machination)
• Le désordre et la nuit (1958, based on the novel Le désordre et la nuit)
• Marie-Octobre (1959, based on the novel Marie-Octobre)
• The Gigolo (1960, based on the novel Le Gigolo)
• Girl's Apartment (1963, based on the novel L'Appartement des filles)
• To Commit a Murder (1967, based on the novel Peau d'espion)
• Someone Behind the Door (1971, based on the short story Quelqu'un derrière la porte)

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