Personal Info
Birth date
1925-07-26 (100 Years)
Day of death
2017-11-16
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France
Also known as
-Robert Hirsch
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6.7
Overview:
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...My Man
5.8
Overview:
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.125 rue Montmartre
7.52
Overview:
Desperate, Didier throws himself 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…A Private Affair
5.6
Overview:
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.Adieu Philippine
6.906
Overview:
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.Cover Up
5.685
Overview:
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.Mortal Transfer
5.3
Overview:
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.The Three Musketeers
5.5
Overview:
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.Plucking the Daisy
6.125
Overview:
Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.Shock Treatment
6.5
Overview:
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.Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre
5.371
Overview:
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.Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
7.007
Overview:
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.Soldier Martin
7
Overview:
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.Funny Money
5.2
Overview:
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.All Mad About Him
NYR
Overview:
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.The Scheming Women
5.3
Overview:
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.Mimi Pinson
2
Overview:
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.The Turkey
6.667
Overview:
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.The Amorous Corporal
5.5
Overview:
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.Call Me Mathilde
7.333
Overview:
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.The Art Dealer
3.6
Overview:
A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.That's Show Business
6.8
Overview:
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 SolemnisSarah
NYR
Overview:
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.Manon Lescaut
3.5
Overview:
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.Acting
2015The Art Dealer as Claude Weinstein
2014The Father as André
2013Manon Lescaut as Monsieur Girardin de Matois
2009Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)
2007Chez Maupassant (1 Episode) as le père Lizet
2007Le gardien as Unknown
2004Volpone as Seco
2003Sarah as Georges Pitou
2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Self
2002A Private Affair as Vieil homme
2001Mortal Transfer as Armand Zlibovic
1998Vivement dimanche (2 Episodes) as Self
1996My Man as Mr. Hervé
1989Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre as Raoul
1986Les Dégourdis de la onzième as Colonel Touplard
1983Cover Up as Avram Kazavian
1982Champs-Elysées (2 Episodes) as Self
1975That's Show Business as Jean-Sébastien Bloch
1973La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière as Tartuffe / Maître de philosophie
1973Shock Treatment as Gérôme
1973George Dandin as Georges Dandin
1973Tartuffe as Tartuffe
1972Le Grand Échiquier (1 Episode) as Self
1970Un fil à la patte as Bouzin
1970La princesse d'Élide as Moron
1969Call Me Mathilde as Lieutenant Hubert de Pifre
1968Kean - Roi de théâtre as Kean
1968The Hotshots as Me Mulot
1967All Mad About Him as Mathieu Gossin
1966Soldier Martin as Martin
1966Funny Money as Fulbert Taupin
1965Impossible on Saturday as Haïm Silbershatz / Carlo Zamba / Mr Brauner
1963Teuf-teuf as Unknown
1962Adieu Philippine as Juan Salcedo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
1960Elizabeth la femme sans homme as Robert Cecil
1959The Three Musketeers as Planchet
1959125 rue Montmartre as Didier Barrachet
1959Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case as Lucien Sabatier
1958Mimi Pinson as Jean-Lou
1958The Amorous Corporal as Boisrose
1957Le violon de l'orphéon as Antoine Plantin / Albert Plantin
1956The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Pierre Gringoire
1956Plucking the Daisy as Roger Vital
1954Yours Truly, Blake as Saganoff
1954The Scheming Women as Mickaël Pakévitch, le metteur en scène
1951The Turkey as Ernest Rédillon