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  • BIRTH 21/05/1933
  • DEATH 05/12/2020
  • Country Algeria
  • MOVIES 25

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.

Robert Castel

Movies (25)

Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire
Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire
Georghiu, Milan agent
Deux hommes dans la ville
Deux hommes dans la ville
André Vaultier
Ils sont partout
Ils sont partout
M. Bensoussan
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
Trinita, le joueur de pétanque
Du Jour au Lendemain
Du Jour au Lendemain
M. Plisson
Dupont Lajoie
Dupont Lajoie
Loulou
Il était une fois un flic...
Il était une fois un flic...
Rodriguez, Manoni's man
Vos gueules les mouettes
Vos gueules les mouettes
Antoine
Attention les yeux!
Attention les yeux!
Chouchou
Vas-y maman
Vas-y maman
Le plombier
El Gusto
El Gusto
Le Comédien
Arrête ton char... bidasse !
Arrête ton char... bidasse !
Rodriguez
Le Braconnier de Dieu
Le Braconnier de Dieu
Le patron du bistrot
C'est dur pour tout le monde
C'est dur pour tout le monde
Monsieur Gilles
Elle court, elle court la banlieue
Elle court, elle court la banlieue
Marcel
Les Grands Moyens
Les Grands Moyens
Hubert Lacagne
Par le sang des autres
Par le sang des autres
Paul
Le Permis de conduire
Le Permis de conduire
L'agent de police
Les marchands de sable
Les marchands de sable
Damien
Les Prédateurs (2) Le Procès de l'affaire Elf
Les Prédateurs (2) Le Procès de l'affaire…
André Guelfi
Trois hommes sur un cheval
Trois hommes sur un cheval
Le Plumard en folie
Le Plumard en folie
Monsieur Albert, le directeur de l'hôtel
L'Insoumis
L'Insoumis
Amerio
Le Complot
Le Complot
Les Borsalini
Les Borsalini
Mohamed Rico