Robert Castel

Robert Castel

Born: May 21, 1933
Died: December 5, 2020
in Bab El-Oued, Alger, Algérie
Robert Castel (21 May 1933 – 5 December 2020) was a French actor.

Castel was born in Bab El Oued on 21 May 1933. He was the son of Lili Labassi, a singer-songwriter of Chaabi music. He started his career as a musician, accompanying his father in Franco-Arabic songs. He began his acting career in the troupe of the Centre régional d'art dramatique in Algiers. He played the role of Robert in the play on the people of the Pied-Noir, titled La Famille Hernandez. He began his film career at the age of 24 with Les Amants de demain, directed by Marcel Blistène and Un témoin dans la ville, directed by Édouard Molinaro. He continued his acting career for the remainder of the 20th Century, ending his career with the 2017 documentary Les Magnifiques, which featured Charley Marouani, Enrico Macias, and Philippe Clair. The documentary covered pop culture in France from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Castel was the widower of Pied-Noir actress Lucette Sahuquet, who died in 1987. The couple appeared on Les Grosses Têtes, broadcast on RTL, and Les Jeux de 20 heures, broadcast on France Régions 3. Robert Castel died in the Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris on 5 December 2020 following a long illness. He was buried on 9 December at the Cimitière parisien de Pantin.

Source: Article "Robert Castel (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Comédien, humoriste (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Jews
Title: The Jews
Character: M. Bensoussan
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.
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El Gusto
Title: El Gusto
Character: Le Comédien
Released: January 11, 2012
Type: Movie
El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional concert. These musicians share a passion they never lost: the soul of Algiers, Chaabi music.
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Teenagers
Title: Teenagers
Character: Pierre
Released: January 5, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of Lucas and how he helps others as an angel. This is an innovative, educational drama that resembles a documentary.
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Title: Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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One Fine Day
Title: One Fine Day
Character: M. Plisson
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.
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The Sandmen
Title: The Sandmen
Character: Damien
Released: July 4, 2000
Type: Movie
Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.
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C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
Title: C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
Character: L'agent Alfredo Moreno
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Alfredo Moreno is a police officer in Paris. Married but separated from his wife, he meets Virginie, a pretty, rather interested blonde. But the Spanish police call him to come and recognize a body they think is that of his wife.
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Title: Le Braconnier de Dieu
Character: Le patron du bistrot
Released: January 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
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Les p’tites têtes
Title: Les p’tites têtes
Character: Mr. Roger
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.
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Hassan Taxi
Title: Hassan Taxi
Released: May 19, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Le bahut va craquer
Title: Le bahut va craquer
Character: le prof d'anglais
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
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What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?
Title: What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?
Character: Gabriel Crémieux
Released: August 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.
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Sacrés gendarmes
Title: Sacrés gendarmes
Character: Gendarme Moreno
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
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Les Borsalini
Title: Les Borsalini
Character: Mohamed Rico
Released: February 20, 1980
Type: Movie
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: Trinita, le joueur de pétanque
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: Le plombier
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Title: Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Character: Rodriguez
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
At a French military outpost, a group of lackadaisical servicemen find plenty of time to make trouble, enjoy nature and pursue beautiful women.
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Title: Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Character: Chouchou
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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Les Grands Moyens
Title: Les Grands Moyens
Character: Hubert Lacagne
Released: February 6, 1976
Type: Movie
The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk.
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La Décharge
Title: La Décharge
Character: Le pied-noir
Released: January 14, 1976
Type: Movie
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
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It's Tough for Everybody
Title: It's Tough for Everybody
Character: Monsieur Gilles
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: Movie
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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The Common Man
Title: The Common Man
Character: Loulou
Released: February 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
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: Antoine
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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Le Permis de conduire
Title: Le Permis de conduire
Character: L'agent de police
Released: April 30, 1974
Type: Movie
Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not having a driving license means that you will have to track a lot of time commuting to public transport. To start the business on his family and professional life.
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Par ici la monnaie
Title: Par ici la monnaie
Character: Roméo
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
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Bedmania
Title: Bedmania
Character: Monsieur Albert, le directeur de l'hôtel
Released: April 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
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Par le sang des autres
Title: Par le sang des autres
Character: Paul
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: André Vaultier
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
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The Conspiracy
Title: The Conspiracy
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
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The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Title: The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Character: Marcel
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Georghiu, Milan agent
Released: December 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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There Once Was a Cop
Title: There Once Was a Cop
Character: Rodriguez, Manoni's man
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
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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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La Honte de la famille
Title: La Honte de la famille
Released: November 7, 1969
Type: Movie
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
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Title: Agence Interim
Character: M. Fred
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: TV
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Les gros malins
Title: Les gros malins
Character: Un agent au commissariat (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in Argentina, he dreams of horse racing and sees in his dream the order of arrival of the horses. Giulia praises her husband's gift at the local café. But the turfmen dissuade her from betting on the nags chosen by Paul, who they consider to be real losers! But her vision proves to be right. When her secret is discovered, everyone wants to buy this miracle medicine. But the product is no longer manufactured, as it is considered dangerous and has been banned by the authorities.
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Title: Le train bleu s'arrête 13 fois
Character: Bob
Released: October 8, 1965
Type: TV
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The Unvanquished
Title: The Unvanquished
Character: Amerio
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Title: The Lovers of Tomorrow
Released: August 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.