Robert Thomas (director)
Robert Thomas ( born September 28, 1927 in Gap, † January 3, 1989 in Paris) was a French writer, director and actor. He wrote several comedies and dramas. Jacques Charon, doyen of the Comédie Française, called him "the natural son of Agatha Christie and Marcel Achard ," others saw in his plays a mixture of Alfred Hitchcock and Feydeau.
Thomas discovered at the age of 14 years, his passion for contemporary theater. At 18 he left his family and went to Paris, where he taught himself as a telegraph operator and an extra in over 50 films, but in addition a playwright who remained unperformed. After his military service, he worked in Rouen at the theater. With his eighth piece of the great success and the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres came. It was the murder mystery Piège pour un homme seul (1960 ), which caused a sensation at the Paris Theatre Bouffes. Under the title " The Trap " was it was also in 1961 to 22 German theaters with 603 performances most played Theaterstück.Zudem Thomas is the author of the play Huit Femmes, which was adapted from François Ozon than 8 femmes for the cinema in 2002. The theater practitioner Robert Thomas in 1970 until his death in 1989 also director of " Theatre Edward VII" in Paris and he has directed the films " La Bonne Soupe " (1963) and " Patate " (1964), the Fox Film Company.
Thomas died of a heart attack.