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Robert Benayoun
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- Works
- 25
Top works
- La science met bas
- Positif 50 years
- Alain Resnais - arpenteur de l'imaginaire
- Myst're Tex Avery
- Le Nonsense
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Film & TV
Port-Lyautey, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Kenitra, Morocco]
Robert Benayoun (12 December 1926 in Kenitra, Morocco – 20 October 1996, Paris) was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais. He wrote screenplays for and directed three films. Benayoun was one of comedian Jerry Lewis's greatest supporters and…
Known for
- The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox — Self (archive footage)2022
- The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film — Self1984
- Ciné regards — Self1978
- Serious as Pleasure — (uncredited)1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- Film '72 — Self1971
- Erotissimo — Mario1969
- S.W.B.1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Kenitra
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- director
- Employer
- France Inter
- Languages spoken
- French
- Work location
- France
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- date of birth
- 1926-12-12
- date of death
- 1996-10-20
- name in native language
- Robert Benayoun
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
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