Robert Dhéry

Robert Dhéry

Born: April 27, 1921
Died: December 5, 2004
in La Plaine Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Robert Dhéry (27 April 1921 – 3 December 2004) (born Robert Léon Henri Fourrey or Robert Foullcy) was a French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter.

He was married to actor Colette Brosset, with whom he appeared onstage in La Plume de Ma Tante.

He appeared on Broadway from 1958 to 1960 in La Plume de Ma Tante, and was, along with the rest of the entire cast (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec) awarded a Special Tony Award 1959 for contribution to the theatre.

Source: Article "Robert Dhéry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Beatrice
Title: Beatrice
Character: Raoul
Released: November 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
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Malevil
Title: Malevil
Character: Peyssou
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Shut Up, Gulli
Title: Shut Up, Gulli
Character: Benoît Kenavec
Released: October 30, 1974
Type: Movie
A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
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A Time for Loving
Title: A Time for Loving
Character: Leonard
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Three Men on a Horse
Title: Three Men on a Horse
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
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The Little Bather
Title: The Little Bather
Character: André Castagnier
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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Public School
Title: Public School
Character: L'instituteur
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.
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The Counterfeit Constable
Title: The Counterfeit Constable
Character: Henri Martineau
Released: October 10, 1964
Type: Movie
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
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Le Café liégeois
Title: Le Café liégeois
Character: Emile le client
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
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A Horse for Two
Title: A Horse for Two
Released: January 24, 1962
Type: Movie
On August 24, 1944, the day Paris was liberated, Maurice saw his cell door open. Although he had spent the whole war "in the shadows", it was not for acts of resistance, but for stealing a bicycle. His contact with the free world was quite brutal. The queues he observed at the butcher's gave him an idea. With the help of his childhood friend Roland, who has lost everything gambling-wise, he steals "Berlingot", the horse from a delivery car, and offers it for sale on the black market. But the "nag" is not of the same opinion.
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: Marcel Perrignon
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Title: En direct de...
Character: self
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: TV
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Peek-a-boo
Title: Peek-a-boo
Character: Robert Dhéry, metteur en scène / Un musicien
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
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La demoiselle et son revenant
Title: La demoiselle et son revenant
Character: Jules Petitpas
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.
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Love Is Not a Sin
Title: Love Is Not a Sin
Character: Jacques Loursier, président de l'U.R.A.F
Released: June 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.
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Bernard and the Lion
Title: Bernard and the Lion
Character: Bertrand
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.
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Branquignol
Title: Branquignol
Character: Bill Rockett - un cow-boy d'opérette
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
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I Love Only You
Title: I Love Only You
Character: Arthur Bibois (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.
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Métier de fous
Title: Métier de fous
Character: Bernard Dormont
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
A very Parisian author cannot finish a comedy. It is ruin for the director of the theater, who has the idea of ​​taking his foal to the coast. There, recruited actors will perform a series of variations on the theme of heartaches to inspire him. After a number of misunderstandings, the operation succeeds.
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Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: Filochard
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
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One Night at the Tabarin
Title: One Night at the Tabarin
Character: André de Lurvine
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.
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Last Chance Castle
Title: Last Chance Castle
Character: Albert
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.
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We Request a Household
Title: We Request a Household
Character: Jacques Arvel
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Pierre and Jacques, one of them being disguised as a woman, work for a wacky scientist to find a treasure hidden in his property by Pierre's uncle.
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Madame et son flirt
Title: Madame et son flirt
Character: Yves Le Florentin
Released: April 3, 1946
Type: Movie
To take revenge on her husband with whom she often has heated discussions, a young woman looks for a flirt, to whom she makes life difficult, without giving him anything, because she is still in love with her husband.
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The Bride of Darkness
Title: The Bride of Darkness
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.
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The Bride of Darkness
Title: The Bride of Darkness
Character: L'aubergiste de Tournebelle
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.
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Children of Paradise
Title: Children of Paradise
Character: Célestin
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
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The White Blackbird
Title: The White Blackbird
Character: Viscount de Mazers
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Character: Arthur, le chanteur
Released: April 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Feu Nicolas
Title: Feu Nicolas
Released: November 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Nicolas, the owner of a small café, has had enough of his current life. Business-wise, customers are more and more scarce. As for the love side, the situation is not any better as Jacqueline, his charming wife, not content to be spendthrift, might well be cheating on him.. To escape this harrowing reality Nicolas decides to simulate his suicide and disappears. Lucky or unlucky draw? Both in fact as, on the one hand, Nicolas finds serenity but, on the other he wins a huge sum of money in a lottery. How will he manage to get the money now?
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Fou d'amour
Title: Fou d'amour
Character: The kisser
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Title: Monsieur des Lourdines
Character: Désiré
Released: June 9, 1943
Type: Movie
A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
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A Star to the Sun
Title: A Star to the Sun
Character: Hubert de Merlerault
Released: February 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.
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Stormy Waters
Title: Stormy Waters
Character: Un matelot au mariage (non crédité)
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.