Madeleine Robinson

For the British trade union organiser, see Madeleine Symons.

Madeleine Robinson
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Born	5 November 1917 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died	Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Other names	Madeleine Svoboda
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1935–1995 (film & TV)

Madeleine Robinson (born Madeleine Svoboda; 5 November 1917 – 1 August 2004) was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Summer Light (both 1943), and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie petite plage (1949). Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in À double tour. In 2001, she was awarded a Molière d'honneur for her contribution to the field.

Selected filmography

• Madame Angot's Daughter (1935)
• Forty Little Mothers (1936)
• The Assault (1936)
• Storm Over Asia (1938)
• Le capitaine Benoît (1938)
• The Marvelous Night (1940)
• Summer Light (1943)
• Love Story (1943)
• The Bellman (1945)
• The Royalists (1947)
• The Bouquinquant Brothers (1947)
• The Fugitive (1947)
• The Story of Dr. Louise (1949)
• Between Eleven and Midnight (1949)
• The Barton Mystery (1949)
• Tuesday's Guest (1950)
• God Needs Men (1950)
• Savage Triangle (1951)
• The Man in My Life (1952)
• Alone in the World (1952)
• Their Last Night (1953)
• On Trial (1954)
• Mannequins of Paris (1956)
• À double tour (Web of Passion) (1959)
• Day by Day, Desperately (1961)
• The Trial (1962) - Mrs. Grubach
• The Gentleman from Epsom (1962)
• Seven Days in January (1979)
• The Teddy Bear (1994)

External links

• Madeleine Robinson at the Internet Movie Database