Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas (Gap, Hautes Alpes, September 28, 1927 - January 3, 1989) was a playwright, actor and French stage director. Biography

He is an author, partly forgotten, of French letters. His professional beginnings are located in the early 1950s, when installed in Paris, he participates as an actor in montages like La Main de César (19519, by André Roussin or Les Belles Bacchantes.

But his greatest recognition comes from his role as playwright. In 1960 he released Trap for a single man, a great success on the stage, which was about to be aired by Alfred Hitchcock.

A year later, the first work, Eight Women, was re-awarded, winning the Quai des Orfèvres Prize. Other works of the author include: Le Deuxième Coup de feu (1964), Assassins associés (1965), Le Marchand de soleil (1969) and La Poulette aux œufs d'or (1973).

As a film director, he filmed, among others, La Bonne Soupe (1964) and Patate (1964). Between 1970 and its death it directed the Théâtre Édouard VII of Paris.

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