Robert Thomas

Biography

At fourteen years, Robert Thomas is discovered a passion for the contemporary theater. In three years, it will read all the plays published since 1900. In 1947, right before passing its vat, it leaves its family with a well settled idea: to write and play the comedy in Paris. It pays its courses of comedy with its wages of telegraphist and plays like appear in more than fifty films. He writes the night seven parts of sharp which all will be refused. In 1950, it makes its military service, then short the “cacheton” on Paris. However, it regularly comes to Rouen in years 52 to 55 to ensure of the reviews New - Theater (the French theater was completely destroyed by the bombs on August 10th, 44) during several seasons under the drection of Strélisky and Lestély, plays some parts with Vudal G., director of troop, of which “mom should be married, the train for Venice…”. He will propose his parts with Vudal G., without success. Robert Thomas will then have cotoyé Noëlle Adam, Ginette Garcin, Mona Monick. he will not leave really Paris. He presents himself to Pierre Dux which engages it in He is necessary to marry mom with Denise Grey. He thus begins a career in the theater, playing in particular in the Hand of Beautiful César and the bacchantes . Its first two parts Eight women and Mrs Hyphen are created all the same in Nice, in 1958 and 1959, but without real success.

Chance of the meetings, Robert Thomas will find some friends of Rouen in August 1988, always accompanied by even friendly sound, with the Festival of Ramatuelle at the sides of Jean-Claude Brialy and will speak about his nearest death after having summarized its life in a sentence: “I succeeded, I gained much money and I have sû to keep it! - if a truck runs me above now at 60 years, I will have time to say to me that I lived well! ” It is deceased a few months later.

The tenacity of Robert Thomas will be rewarded with his eighth part. Retained by a Parisian theater, theParisian ones, Trap for a man alone , makes a triumph on January 28th 1960, evening of the general one, and its author becomes famous day at the following day. The history is that of an young man in honeymoon which has awaited the return of his wife missing for ten days, following an argument. The investigation of police force tramples until a woman, who says the sought wife, reinstates the marital home. The husband shouts in vain with imposture, the events and several witnesses confirm that the young woman is well his wife. Is it insane or a band of criminals they are baited on him? In fact, all this trap was arranged by the police force to only make crack the husband, to make him acknowledge the murder of his wife.

This part, rewarded by the Price for the Quay for the Goldsmiths, is seen quickly translated and represented in the whole world. Alfred Hitchcock, wishing to buy the rights of adaptation of the part to the cinema, meets even its author. This theatrical success consolidates Robert Thomas in his way of dramatic author. Consequently, it will be a speciality by marrying the police intrigue with the Light comedies.

The following year, it begins again by rewriting it its first part, Eight women . In a detached house by snow, the female members of a family carry out their own survey to discover the assassin of the host, probably one of them. In spite of the apparent suitabilities and courtesies, they are delivered, in door-close, with a play of the truth as relentless as pitiful, revealing the weaknesses, the lies, hidden rancours, not saving any them. The part will be adapted to the cinema by François Ozon in 2002.

Robert Thomas, in 1966, with the idea to join together in the Parakeet and the chicken celebrates it couple of the radio broadcast On the Bench: Jane Sourza and Raymond Souplex. The operator of a notary is on the point of closing the study when she discovers her stabbed owner. Time that the police force arrives on the spot, the corpse disappears. There did it have crime? A cascade of surprised and a completely unforeseen outcome will prove to the police officer (" the poulet") that the secretary chatters (" the perruche") reason had. Together they will stop the culprit…

To announce among the other important parts of the repertory of Robert Thomas: the Second shot (1965), associated Assassins (1965), Freddy (1969), an unforeseen friend (1969) according to Agatha Christie, double game (1970), the Pullet with gold eggs (1973), the Room tangerine (1974), Bastard the (1978), Princess Luck .

Of 1970 until its death in 1989 occurred of an heart attack, Robert Thomas was the director of the Théâtre Edouard VII. It carried out with the cinema for Darryl Zanuck Good Soup (1963), Patate (1964), adapted its Bastard parts the , Freddy (1978), Princesse Luck (1981). It produced and interpreted on television the televised series a priest of shock (1974), signed two episodes of the Leclerc inspector: My wife is insane and the Binoculars (1962). One also owes him, as a realizer, My priest at the nudists (1982), My priest at the Inhabitants of Thailand (1983) and the Brazilian ones of the Bois de Boulogne (1984).

So some critical deplored at Robert Thomas his lack of renewal, the fact of having sought its inspiration in adaptations, Robert Thomas knew to introduce an original tone: the French spirit, in the so particular field of the police comedy which seemed reserved to the only Anglo-Saxon authors. With comedies with suspense of a merry and fast style, with the many dramatic turns of events and inversions of situation, it renewed the kind, without showing any claim if not that to divert its spectators.

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