Robert Manuel

Robert Manuel was born on Sep 07, 1916 in France. Robert Manuel's big-screen debut came with Street of Shadows directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst in 1937, strarring Un invité au consulat (as Robert Manuel de la Comédie Française). Robert Manuel is known for Would-Be Gentleman directed by Jean Meyer, Jean Meyer stars as Covielle, valet de Cléonte and Louis Seigner as Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois. The upcoming new movie Robert Manuel plays is À demain which will be released on Dec 02, 1992.

Robert Manuel was a long-time member of The Comédie-Française. He got his first part on stage in 1933 in Gabriel Pierné's "Fragonard" at the early age of eighteen, which allowed him to celebrate - as of October 1983 - the fiftieth anniversary of his debut. At the time he was playing Liberio Bocca,a fanciful old man, in Aldo Nicolai's "Le Soleil n'est plus aussi chaud qu'avant", later filmed for television. Among his numerous other plays are: "Hello Dolly", "Barnum", "Ceux qui font les Clowns"... Robert Manuel was also the owner of a restaurant on Quai Kennedy named "Wall Street".