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Robert Thomas
Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 3 January 1989) was a French writer, actor and film director. As a writer, almost from the beginning, he was fascinated by…
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Robert Thomas (28 September 1927 in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 3 January 1989) was a French writer, actor and film director. As a writer, almost from the beginning, he was fascinated by a curious genre that he helped invent: the comédie policière or comedy thriller, of which Eight Women is an example. In 1960, Thomas had a hit with Man Trap, a humorous murder mystery which was an overnight success in Paris. Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights and the play established Thomas as a writer of psychological crime dramas with a distinctively Gallic comic twist. The following year the second outing of Eight Women was far more successful as it won the Hachette Prix du Quai des Orfevres for Best Play in 1961. Thomas was a prolific actor, playwright and movie director. If he is best known for Eight Women it is probably because it was adapted into a movie musical by François Ozon in 2002 with a star-studded line-up that included Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart. Thomas’s plays were never fashionable and he was often dismissed by French critics but he was a popular dramatist. By the time he was 18, he claimed he had read every play published in French since 1900. Thomas died in 1989 in Paris. Source: Article "Robert Thomas (director)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2021
7 Women and a Murder
Movie Theatre Play
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2002
8 Women
Movie Theatre Play
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1989
Waiting for Elizabeth
Movie Theatre Play
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1986
Vanishing Act
Movie Theatre Play
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1984
Les Brésiliennes du Bois de Boulogne
Movie Writer
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1983
My Pastor Among the Thais
Movie Writer
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1982
Look for a Woman
Movie Theatre Play
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1982
My Pastor Among the Nudists
Movie Writer
- 1981
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1980
A gyilkos köztünk van
Movie Theatre Play
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1980
La chambre mandarine
Movie Writer
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1978
Freddy
Movie Dialogue
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1977
Netnou Hoor die Kinders!
Movie Novel
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1976
One of My Wives Is Missing
Movie Original Story
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1974
Un curé de choc
TV show Le brigadier de gendarmerie
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1974
Bedmania
Movie Co-Writer
More credits
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1973
Big Deal
Movie Writer
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1972
Huit femmes
Movie Author
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1971
Samedi soir
TV show Self
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1970
La Brune que voilà
Movie Stage Director
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1970
Les Assassins associés
Movie Léo
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1970
Alta comedia
TV show Theatre Play
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1970
Eight women
Movie Writer
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1969
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Movie Theatre Play
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1969
La Perruche et le Poulet
Movie Mr. Laroche (a corpse client) / Mr. Logan, 1st clerk
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1969
Le deuxième coup de feu
Movie Patrice
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1966
At Theatre Tonight
TV show M. Laroche (un client cadavre), M. Logan, le 1er clerc
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1964
Friends of the family
Movie Screenplay
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1964
How to Make a French Dish
Movie Director
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1961
Spotlight on a Murderer
Movie Writer
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1960
La Mort n'est pas à vendre
Movie Dialogue
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1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
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