Robert Hirsch

Robert Hirsch

Born: July 26, 1925
Died: November 16, 2017
in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France
Robert Hirsch (26 July 1925 – 16 November 2017) was a French actor. He was a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990, he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre.

His other film appearances included The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and in 2006/07 he appeared in Le gardien (a French adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker) at Théâtre de l'Oeuvre then Théâtre de Paris.

In April 2011, he asked Florian Zeller to write a part specially for him. The result was Le Père which had its first performance in Le Théâtre Hébertot, Paris, in September 2012. Hirsch played the central character, André, at the age of 87.

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

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The Art Dealer
Title: The Art Dealer
Character: Claude Weinstein
Released: March 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: André
Released: July 24, 2014
Type: Movie
TV drama.
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Manon Lescaut
Title: Manon Lescaut
Character: Monsieur Girardin de Matois
Released: April 20, 2013
Type: Movie
There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who's preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker's daughter. It's love at first sight.
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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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Title: Chez Maupassant
Character: le père Lizet
Released: March 6, 2007
Type: TV
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Le gardien
Title: Le gardien
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: Seco
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
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Sarah
Title: Sarah
Character: Georges Pitou
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of Sarah Bernhardt. The play concentrates on an uneasy relationship between Sarah and her servant to whom she dictates her memoir, as well as a fragile relationship between her memories, actual history and reality.
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A Private Affair
Title: A Private Affair
Character: Vieil homme
Released: April 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
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Mortal Transfer
Title: Mortal Transfer
Character: Armand Zlibovic
Released: January 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: M. Hervé
Released: January 31, 1996
Type: Movie
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
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Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Title: Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
Character: Raoul
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Pierre (Lambert Wilson), a parish priest, on seeing the suffering of these people (and their frequent death from the cold), was moved to write the French government seeking help for them. When his letter, which was published in the newspapers, succeeded in rousing overwhelming popular support for helping the homeless, he was able to form a charitable group (still active today) titled "Les Chiffoniers d'Emmaus," or "The Ragpickers of Emmaus" to channel help to them. This biographical film tells the true story of Abbe Pierre's successful efforts in those years.
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Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Title: Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Character: Colonel Touplard
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Avram Kazavian
Released: August 24, 1983
Type: Movie
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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That's Show Business
Title: That's Show Business
Character: Jean-Sébastien Bloch
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Title: La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
Character: Tartuffe / Maître de philosophie
Released: February 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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Shock Treatment
Title: Shock Treatment
Character: Gérôme
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr. Berbard. But after a series of tragic events, Hélène goes further in her investigation of the clinic.
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Georges Dandin
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Character: Tartuffe
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A filmed version of Molière's play.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: Bouzin
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Call Me Mathilde
Title: Call Me Mathilde
Character: Le lieutenant Hubert de Pifre
Released: December 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Mathilde de Blanzac is abducted on her way home from an evening at the opera with her wealthy industrialist husband. Her pathetic pieds-nickelés kidnappers begin by holding her hostage at the home of Petit Jean, a country bumpkin, before demanding a ransom from her husband. At the same time, Hubert de Pifre, a fighter pilot in distress, ejects over Petit Jean's farm.
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The Hotshots
Title: The Hotshots
Character: Me Mulot
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
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All Mad About Him
Title: All Mad About Him
Character: Mathieu Gossin
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.
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Soldier Martin
Title: Soldier Martin
Character: Martin
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
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Funny Money
Title: Funny Money
Character: Fulbert Taupin
Released: March 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
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Impossible on Saturday
Title: Impossible on Saturday
Character: Haïm Silbershatz / Carlo Zamba / Mr Brauner
Released: January 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Robert Hirsch impresses as he takes on 11 different roles in Alex Joffé's comedy about the six sons of a recently deceased Jewish Casanova. To receive their inheritance, the sons must convene in Israel and recite a Kaddish (memorial prayer) for their dad. But planning the gathering is no easy feat. The film's title is based on the nonobservant son's futile attempts to contact his siblings on the one day when working is forbidden by Jewish law.
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Teuf-teuf
Title: Teuf-teuf
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
An automobile tribute
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Planchet
Released: December 25, 1959
Type: Movie
The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
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125, rue Montmartre
Title: 125, rue Montmartre
Character: Didier Barrachet
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Desperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Title: Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Character: Lucien Sabatier
Released: September 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
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Mimi Pinson
Title: Mimi Pinson
Character: Jean-Lou
Released: July 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.
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The Amorous Corporal
Title: The Amorous Corporal
Character: Boisrose
Released: April 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.
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Le violon de l'orphéon
Title: Le violon de l'orphéon
Character: Antoine Plantin / Albert Plantin
Released: March 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Antoine is a violinist in love with sweet Sophie. Problem: his sweetheart is the daughter of the master of the municipal harmony, a stubborn man who swears only by the brass. Never mind: Antoine decides to ask him for his daughter's hand and to win his place at the orpheon. Will the two men be able to get in tune?
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Pierre Gringoire
Released: December 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
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Plucking the Daisy
Title: Plucking the Daisy
Character: Roger Vital
Released: July 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Due to an urgent need of money, Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
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Yours Truly, Blake
Title: Yours Truly, Blake
Character: Saganoff
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decides to discover Paris by Night. As of his first night out, he gets to know Michèle Marley, a beautiful entertainer, and looks forward to a wonderful night of pleasure. But things do not go according to plan. Indeed, Laurent, Michèle's partner is found dead and not only is Michèle accused of killing him but Larry is suspected of being her accomplice as well ...
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The Scheming Women
Title: The Scheming Women
Character: Mickaël Pakévitch, le metteur en scène
Released: April 7, 1954
Type: Movie
The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.
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The Turkey
Title: The Turkey
Character: Ernest Rédillon
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.