Robert Castel

Robert Castel (in Arabic: روبرت كاستل), whose real name is Robert Adolphe Moyal, is an actor, musician and comedian, born on May 21, 1933 in Algiers in the Bab El-Oued district, Algeria. Robert Castel began as a musician, tar player, then guitarist, accompanying his father, composer violinist, and singer of light French-Arab songs. Young actor in the troupe of the Regional Center of Dramatic Art of Algiers, Robert Castel plays the role of Robert Le Bègue in the theatrical improvisation show on the life of the pieds-noirs, La Famille Hernandez, which is created by Geneviève Baïlac on September 17, 1957 in Paris. Having cut his teeth in music hall, Robert Castel began his film career at the age of 24 in Les Amants De Demain by Marcel Blistène, then in Un témoin dans la ville by Édouard Molinaro. In 1962, Robert Castel left the newly independent Algeria and settled in Paris with Lucette Sahuquet (who died in 1987), whom he married. The couple inaugurated their sketches as a duo that year, notably at the Olympia where they opened for Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich and Philippe Clay. In the 1970s, the comedian, lively and provocative, did a lot of television sketches with his favorite partner and Enrico Macias. For the big screen, this dark-haired comedian, with a clear forehead, who speaks with his hands, abandoned his favorite register. Having become the figure of "pied-noir humor" in France, he played alongside Edith Piaf in Les Amants de demain by Marcel Blistène, Pierre Richard in Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire by Yves Robert, and Isabelle Huppert in Dupont Lajoie by Yves Boisset. In 1982, he made a notable appearance in Algerian cinema by playing in Hassan taxi, directed by Mohamed Slim Riad, alongside Rouiched (Ahmed Ayad), Ouardia Hamitouche and Sidali Kouiret. He appeared in more than thirty films in total, until the early 2000s. Robert Castel kept a low profile for a few years before returning to the stage, this time in a musical, in 2007 thanks to the El-Gusto project. This project, which seeks to bring together Algerian, Jewish and Muslim musicians who were part of Hadj M'hamed El Anka's Algiers Chaâbi orchestra in the early 1950s, resulted in a documentary film that won international awards, the recording of an album and an international tour that took a troupe of 42 musicians to countries such as France, Morocco, Tunisia, Switzerland, Belgium, the United States and the Netherlands. In 2008, Robert Castel signed his autobiography, Je pose 75 [son âge], mais je retaîtres tout. He returned to the stage in 2013 to present his last one-man show, "Nostalgérie". He died on December 5, 2020 in Paris, at the age of 87.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bab El-Oued, Alger, Algérie, 1933-05-21

Died: 2020-12-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	The Lovers of Tomorrow		40
2	1964	The Unvanquished	Amerio	66
3	1969	Les gros malins	Agent at the police station (uncredited)	10
4	1969	La Honte de la famille		20
5	1969	Three Men on a Horse	Norber	10
6	1972	There Once Was a Cop	Rodriguez, Manoni's man	61
7	1972	The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe	Georghiu, Milan agent	70
8	1973	The Suburbs Are Everywhere	Marcel	48
9	1973	The Conspiracy	Sapporo	53
10	1973	Two Men in Town	André Vaultier	71
11	1974	Par le sang des autres	Paul	50
12	1974	Bedmania	Monsieur Albert, le directeur de l'hôtel	40
13	1974	Par ici la monnaie	Roméo	20
14	1974	Le Permis de conduire	L'agent de police	62
15	1974	Shut Up, Gulli	Antoine	60
16	1975	The Common Man	Loulou	70
17	1975	It's Tough for Everybody	Monsieur Gilles	55
18	1976	La Décharge	Le pied-noir	50
19	1976	Les Grands Moyens	Hubert Lacagne	54
20	1976	Let's Make a Dirty Movie	Chouchou	39
21	1977	Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!	Rodriguez	37
22	1978	Take It from the Top	Le plombier	52
23	1978	Too Shy to Try	Trinita, le joueur de pétanque	64
24	1980	Les Borsalini	Mohamed Rico	50
25	1980	Sacrés gendarmes	Gendarme Moreno	51
26	1980	What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?	Gabriel Crémieux	77
27	1981	Le bahut va craquer	le prof d'anglais	40
28	1982	Hassan Taxi		78
29	1982	Les p’tites têtes	Mr. Roger	70
30	1983	Le Braconnier de Dieu	Le patron du bistrot	50
31	1983	C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans	L'agent Alfredo Moreno	20
32	2000	The Sandmen	Damien	65
33	2006	One Fine Day	M. Plisson	50
34	2007	Elf, Kings of Oil	André Guelfi	0
35	2007	The Elf Case	André Guelfi	50
36	2009	Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)	Self (archive footage)	0
37	2011	Teenagers	Pierre	63
38	2012	El Gusto	Le Comédien	75
39	2016	The Jews	M. Bensoussan	43
40	2017	À la recherche de... Pierre Richard	Self - Actor, humorist (archive footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Le Train Bleu s'arrête 13 fois	Bob	0
2	1969	Agence Interim	M. Fred	0
3	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
4	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
5	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
6	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
7	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
8	1975	Système 2	Self	0
9	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
10	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63

Robert Castel

Film

Television