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 (194...
Known For
Complete Filmography
La rage au cœur
1995
as Madame Lignel
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt...
The Teddy Bear
1994
as Mother of Jean
Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging.
L'Affaire Seznec
1993
as Madame Seznec
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with th...
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
1992
as Mme Delalande
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988
Camille Claudel
1988
as Louise-Athanaise Claudel
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988
as Betty Roussel
Dialogues des Carmélites
1984
as Mme Lidoine (la nouvelle prieure)
The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows.
La Métamorphose
1983
as Mrs. Samsa
A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.
I Married a Shadow
1983
as Mme Meyrand
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Un Adolescent d'autrefois
1983
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young man from the upper middle class tries to escape the constraints of his family.
Cinq-Mars
1981
as Marie de Médicis
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise t...
Drugstore Romance
1979
as La mère
Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a dea...
Seven Days in January
1979
as Adelaïda
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.
A Simple Story
1978
as La mère
A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.
Lover Boy
1978
as Madame Josée
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julie...
One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
1978
as Mère de Pauline
Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.
Noix de coco
1972
as Caroline
As Far as Love Can Go
1971
as La femme du bar
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and...
Le Petit Matin
1971
as Eva
Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin Jean who is overprotected by his possessive mothe...
The Mad Heart
1970
as Clara Noël
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe beca...
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969
as Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Father's Trip
1966
as Manager of the “Salon Trianon”
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdress...
A Young World
1966
as Margot
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abort...
A Trap for Cinderella
1965
as Jeanne Mureau
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
Un gosse de la butte
1964
as Hélène
A young boy lives in a popular part of Paris with his mother...
Mission to Venice
1964
as Marie Trégard
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
El juego de la verdad
1963
as Lucía
Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Luci...
La salamandre d'or
1962
as Louise de Savoie
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their...
The Gentleman from Epsom
1962
as Maud
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
as Germaine Messager
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Cha...
The Trial
1962
as Mrs. Grubach
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.
Cross of the Living
1962
as Mme Van Dorneck
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, t...
Dark Journey
1962
as Augusta Londe
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds ou...
Day by Day, Desperately
1961
as Tilde
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 i...
The Taste of Violence
1961
as Bianca
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
The Opportunists
1960
as Flore Brazier
The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
À double tour
1959
as Thérèse Marcoux
The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé susp...
Sins of Youth
1958
as Mathilde Belin
In a small provincial town, the boarding-house is run by Mathilde Belin, the overindulging and over-demanding mother of Paul. When she is told by her ...
No Escape
1958
as (uncredited)
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until t...
Secrets of a French Nurse
1958
as Maine Lecomte
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watc...
Demoniac
1957
as Julia Pradal
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been c...
Mannequins of Paris
1956
as Véronique Lanier
Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promis...
Passionate Summer
1956
as Agatha Manosque
Agata, her daughter Silvia and sister-in-law Pia run a farm lost in the mountains. The hiring of Angelo, an attractive forty-something, will provoke c...
The Knife to the Throat
1955
as Mado
Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during th...
The Ragpickers of Emmaus
1955
as Madame Vatier
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivile...
On Trial
1954
as Elisabeth Maurizius
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace t...
Their Last Night
1953
as Madeleine Marsan
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian....
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
1953
as Irène Cazenave
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues t...
Je suis un mouchard
1953
as Mado
Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henr...
Alone in the World
1952
as Geneviève
François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor allows him to realize this dream.
The Man in My Life
1952
as Madeleine Dubreuil
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting...
Savage Triangle
1951
as Marie
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite he...
God Needs Men
1950
as Jeanne Gourvennec
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as stra...
Tuesday's Guest
1950
as Fernande Josse, la femme de Charles
When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.
The Story of Dr. Louise
1949
as La doctoresse Louise Montivier
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
The Barton Mystery
1949
as Lucy
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949
as Lucienne Lusigny
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assig...
Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949
as Marthe
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains ope...
Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
1948
as Élisabeth d'Anthar
Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabet...
The Bouquinquant Brothers
1948
as Julie Bouquinquant born Moret
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...
La Grande Maguet
1947
as Catherine Maguet
The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelaine, Suzanne de Norvaisis. Edmond, the husband of t...
The Royalists
1947
as Madame Du Gua
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent...
The Fugitive
1947
Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for...
The Bellman
1945
as Marthe
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to b...
Douce
1943
as Irène Comtat
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...
Summer Light
1943
as Michèle
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, w...
La Croisée des chemins
1942
as Henriette Rouvray
A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has neglected her.But will he in turn neglect his duti...
Promise to the Unknown One
1942
as Françoise Parker
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of...
The Wonderful Night
1940
as La réfugiée
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the co...
Promesses
1939
A scout leader enlists a friend of hers who broke off her engagement because of the young man's ruin. Both try to instill in the young boys entrusted ...
Captain Benoit
1938
as Denise Benoît
An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.
La Cité des lumières
1938
The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nigh...
Gosse de riche
1938
as Simone Maravon
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engin...
Grisou
1938
as La loute
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 acti...
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938
as Suzanne
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
Bouquets from Nicholas
1938
as Lisette
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
Nights of Fire
1937
as Macha
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from...
A Man to Kill
1937
as Andrée Ruval
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
Assault
1936
as Georgette Mérital
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered th...
Forty Little Mothers
1936
as Denise Mériel, the mother
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become hi...
Happy Days
1935
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical stu...