Biography
Michel Robin (13 November 1930 – 18 November 2020) was a French film, stage, and television actor. A sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1996, he also appeared in 120 films from 1966 to 2018. He won several awards for his acting, including the Moliere Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Locarno Festival in 1979. Source: Article "Michel Robin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Amélie: The Real Story
2023
as (archive footage)
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.
Just a Breath Away
2018
as Lucien
When a deadly mist engulfs Paris, people find refuge in the upper floors of the buildings. With no information, no electricity and hardly any supplies...
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Scent of Mandarin
2015
as Le curé
During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionat...
Meurtres à Collioure
2015
as Fernand Sarda
Murder in Collioure
2015
as Fernand Sarda
In a grisly murder that evokes local legend, a woman rolls to her death in a barrel.
The Forest
2014
as Karp
The Forest is both a vibrantly spontaneous and brutally funny family drama, and a glorious tribute to acting and theater - in other words, an Arnaud D...
Je vous présente ma femme
2013
as Alphonse
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012
as Le garçon de café
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice....
Granny's Funeral
2012
as M. Salvini
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky c...
Farewell, My Queen
2012
as Jacob-Nicolas Moreau
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Bon vent Claude Goretta
2011
as Self
Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s ...
Eden Is West
2009
as Le portier du Lido
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by...
Cyrano de Bergerac
2007
as Le bourgeois / Le capucin / Un cadet
Dombey and Son
2007
as Salomon
The dream of Charles Dombais, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, his wife dies shortly ...
Granny boom
2006
as Colonel
Désiré Landru
2005
as Le père de Landru
Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals and lovers of ...
A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Old Man on the Battlefield
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...
Le voyageur sans bagage
2004
as Me Huspar
We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it.
Aquarium
2004
Six strangers awake in a strange sealed off room while a mysterious observer tells them that only one of them will survive.
Black Mor's Island
2004
as Master Forbes (Voice)
Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his cre...
Le Dindon
2003
as Gérôme
The Triplets of Belleville
2003
as Adult Champion (voice)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-an...
Amélie
2001
as Mr. Collignon
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a...
De l'histoire ancienne
2001
as Mr. Santucci
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have ...
Nightcap
2000
as Dufreigne
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wr...
The Children of the Century
1999
as Larive
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But the...
The Pianist
1998
as Floreal
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a trans...
Restons groupés
1998
as Raymond
A group of French tourists goes on an organized trip to visit the American West. A dream trip from California to Las Vegas, passing through national p...
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
1996
as Self
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a docu...
L'Affaire
1994
as Charles Rivette
A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the b...
La Gamine
1992
as Georges
A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. There's only one problem : her behavior brings the two...
Shipwrecked Children
1992
as Paul
Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until their little paradise is disturbed when an old lady ...
Stan the Flasher
1990
as Le détenu
Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quotin...
Marquis
1989
as Ambert (voice)
On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plotting again...
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
1989
as Tocanier
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women ...
Gewitter im Mai
1987
as Pfarrer
Germany, around the turn of the century. When sailor Poldi returns to his Bavarian home village after many years at sea he falls for his childhood fri...
Nanou
1987
as Mr. Henry
A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her s...
L'Amour ou presque
1985
as Owner of the gas station
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to ge...
Harem
1985
as Monsieur Raoul
Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim...
Love on the Quiet
1985
as Gabriel
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-b...
Gwen and the Book of Sand
1985
as Roseline (voice)
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roselin...
The Blood of Others
1984
as Raoul
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...
The Outsider
1983
as Alfred Gonet dit « Freddy le chimiste »
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of ...
A Stone in the Mouth
1983
as Victor
A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.
The Death of Mario Ricci
1983
as Fernand Blondel
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During t...
Casting
1983
as Auguste, guardian
A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project,...
The Sorceress
1982
as L'archevêque
An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
1982
as Florimont Faroux
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
La saisie
1982
A César award nominated short feature.
La Chèvre
1981
as Alexandre Bens
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detecti...
Two Lions in the Sun
1980
as Man of the park
Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go ...
The Horse of Pride
1980
as le marquis
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division...
The Child Woman
1980
as Le père
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, the...
Womanlight
1979
as Doctor
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Such a Lovely Town...
1979
as Gaspard
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of ...
Les Petites Fugues
1979
as Pipe
The old farm worker Pipe is old enough to retire. Even so he cannot imagine a life without work. So he keeps on doing his job and wonders what to do w...
L'Hôtel de la plage
1978
as M.Léonce
Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.
Focal Point
1977
as 'Petit Louis'
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually...
The Cold Heart
1977
as Xavier
Nathalie, traumatized by the death of a child she had to look after, is hired by Marti to take care of the little Serge, his son. The boy is abnormal,...
The Toy
1976
as The butler
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needin...
The Education in Love of Valentin
1976
as Monsieur Bertand
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series...
Je suis Pierre Rivière
1976
as Le père
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste
A Bag of Marbles
1975
as Mantelier
Set in Paris 1941, two Jewish boys cling to their lives by doing all sorts of odd jobs, stealing and black-marketeering.
The Track
1975
as Chamond
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of...
That Most Important Thing: Love
1975
as Raymond Lapade
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress...
Jury of One
1974
as Véricel
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
Black Thursday
1974
as le cousin
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Chris...
Erica Minor
1974
as L'homme à la maîtresse
Crossed portraits of three women each living in the aftermath of the events of May 1968.
The Wonderful Crook
1974
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victim...
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
as Priest of the Invalides
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by S...
The Invitation
1973
as Rémy Placet
After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated...
The Dominici Affair
1973
as Perrin
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation...
Tom Thumb
1972
as Le Bûcheron
Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his ...
Somewhere, Someone
1972
as Depressed patient
A portrait of loneliness in contemporary France.
La nuit bulgare
1972
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A...
Don't Deliver Us from Evil
1971
as Léon
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. A...
Alice au pays des merveilles
1970
as Costume turtle
Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by ...
Atlantic Wall
1970
as Le cordonnier pour les chaussures de Rommel
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance ...
The Confession
1970
as Attorney General
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1969
as 'Crève-la-faim'
Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her o...
The Fighting Cock
1969
as Controller
A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle...
Délire à deux
1968
The absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the bombardments of war.
The Other One
1967
Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows...