Robert Dorfmann

Producer

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Birth Place

France

Died

August 11, 1999

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Audiences know Robert Dorfmann as the talented producer behind many of their favorite films. Starting his entertainment career producing for the silver screen, his early credits included the dramatic adaptation "Forbidden Games" (1952) with Brigitte Fossey, the Jean Gabin crime drama "Grisbi" (1954) and "Le Corniaud" (1965). He also appeared in the dramatic adaptation "Mayerling" (19...

Filmography

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Virtual Girl (2000)

Cold Sweat (1974)

Papillon (1973)

The Confession (1970)

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Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) No One Is Innocent

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) You Escape, They Hunt

Biography

Audiences know Robert Dorfmann as the talented producer behind many of their favorite films. Starting his entertainment career producing for the silver screen, his early credits included the dramatic adaptation "Forbidden Games" (1952) with Brigitte Fossey, the Jean Gabin crime drama "Grisbi" (1954) and "Le Corniaud" (1965). He also appeared in the dramatic adaptation "Mayerling" (1968) with Omar Sharif and the drama "Woman in Chains" (1968) with Laurent Terzieff. Dorfmann continued to focus on film through the sixties and the seventies, producing movies like "The Christmas Tree" (1969) with William Holden, the Yves Montand drama "The Confession" (1970) and "The Red Circle" (1970) with Yves Montand. He also appeared in "Tristana" (1970). Dorfmann then focused on film, producing "De la Part des Copains" (1971), the action flick "Soleil Rouge" (1971) with Charles Bronson and "Papillon" (1973). Dorfmann was most recently credited in the Lino Ventura dramatic adaptation "Army of Shadows" (2006). Dorfmann passed away in August 1999 at the age of 87.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Virtual Girl (2000)

Producer (Feature Film)

Cold Sweat (1974)

Papillon (1973)

The Confession (1970)

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Don't Look Now (1969)

The Christmas Tree (1969)

Mayerling (1969)

La prisonnière (1969)

Army of Shadows (1969)

The Sucker (1966)

Associate Producer

My Wife's Husband (1965)

Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1964)

Executive Producer

The Cheaters (1961)

Forbidden Games (1952)

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

Associate Producer

Life Events

Videos

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) No One Is Innocent En route to the penal colony in French Guyana ca. 1933, Steve McQueen (title character) introduces himself to wisecracking counterfeiter Dega (Dustin Hoffman), their first conversation, early in director Franklin Schaffner's international hit Papillon, 1973.

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) You Escape, They Hunt Arriving from France, Steve McQueen (title character) and Dega (Dustin Hoffman) get their first look at Devil's Island, with comments from returning inmate Julot (Don Gordon), who takes his own desperate steps, in Papillon, 1973, from the international best-selling memoir by Henri Charriere.

Confession, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Based On The Account By... Director Costa-Gavras’ opening, in the follow-up film to his international hit Z, 1969, shows Yves Montand as an official in the Czechoslovakian government who suddenly has reason to believe he’s being targeted by rivals in the security division, in The Confession, 1970.

Confession, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) He Lives Like A Bourgeios Prague, ca. 1948, government official Gerard (Yves Montand), a veteran European socialist arrested in a communist party power struggle, is being processed into captivity, in director Costa-Gavras' The Confession, 1970.

Confession, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Born In Prison The first substantial scene for Simone Signoret, as Lise, wife of Gerard (Yves Montand, Signoret’s real-life husband), a Czechoslovakian government official and veteran socialist who, she learns, has been arrested in a party purge, in director Costa-Gavras’ fact-based The Confession, 1970.

Un Flic (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Three For Paris Fleeing after a bank robbery with one man (Riccardo Cucciolla) shot, thieves Simon, Costa and Albouis (Richard Crenna, Michael Conrad, Andre Pousse) perform an elaborate feint at a Normandy train station, in noir artist Jean-Pierre Melville's final film Un Flic, 1972.

Un Flic (1972) -- (Movie Clip) While The City Slept Stormy shooting right where the movie purports to happen, Saint-Jean-de-Monts on the French Atlantic coast near Nantes, Jean-Pierre Melville opens his last film, Richard Crenna leading the robbers, Alain Delon the cop back in Paris, in Un Flic, 1972.

Un Flic (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Bloody Heist In Saint-Jean-De-Monts From an evening's work in Paris, cop Coleman (Alain Delon) enters a night club near the Champs Elysees, director Jean-Pierre Melville introduces Catherine Deneuve (as "Cathy") and the club owner Simon (Richard Crenna), whom we know just robbed a bank, arrives, in Un Flic, 1972.

Un Flic (1972) -- (Movie Clip) We Have Our Orders Cop Coleman (Alain Delon) is at the shooting range as gangsters Simon, Louis and Marc (Americans Richard Crenna and Michael Conrad, French Andre Pousse) send Cathy (Catherine Deneuve) in disguise to finish off their injured colleague, in Jean-Pierre Melville's Un Flic, 1972.

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Butterflies Steve McQueen (title character) and Dustin Hoffman (as "Dega") learning from veteran prisoner Clousiot (Woodrow Parfrey) about Richter (Don Hanmer) who buys butterflies caught by the prisoners at the penal colony in French Guyana, circa 1933, in Papillon, 1973.

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) We're Not Priests Detained after a failed escape from a mainland work crew, Steve McQueen (title character) is conducted to "solitary" at Devil's Island, William Smithers the warden making a speech, beginning a famous series of scenes in Franklin Schaffner's Papillon, 1973.

Papillon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Forget France! Cameos in the opening, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo the barking officer, Anne Byrne, wife of co-star Dustin Hoffman seeing him off, as he departs with Steve McQueen (title character), director Franklin Schaffner using Hondarribia, Spain for 1930's Marseilles, in Papillon, 1973.

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