Robert Lefebvre

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Robert Lefebvre (born March 19, 1907 as Robert Gérard Charles Le Febvre in Paris , † February 15, 1989 in Montfort-l'Amaury ) was a French cameraman .

Live and act

Lefebvre had worked in the chemistry lab at the Kodak photography company before moving to film in 1927 and starting as a camera assistant. Three years later he became head cameraman and over the next four and a half decades photographed a large number of box-office entertainment films, occasionally even with artistic aspirations. The works Reise ohne Hope , Goldhelm and Der Fall Maurizius are among his best works.

Otherwise, Lefebvre proved to be a prominent picture designer of popular, albeit mostly unambitious, mass entertainment. As an accomplished technician without artistic ambition, he nevertheless worked with important representatives of French cinema, especially after 1945, including the actors Gérard Philipe , Maurice Chevalier , Fernandel , Michèle Morgan , Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot as well as the directors Ludwig Berger , Luis Buñuel and René Clair .

Lefebvre's rapid decline began in the mid-1960s: In his last decade of work, the Parisian primarily photographed sex films of the lowest quality, often staged by the director Max Pécas, who is well-known for this genre.

Robert Lefebvre died, inactive in the last decade and a half of his life, mentally deranged.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1931: Azaïs
  • 1931: Le juif polonais
  • 1932: Ne sois pas jalouse
  • 1932: Sa meilleure cliente
  • 1933: Mannequins
  • 1933: Paris-Deauville
  • 1934: Le roi des Champs-Elysées
  • 1934: Sapho
  • 1934: Tartarin de Tarascon
  • 1935: Mademoiselle Mozart
  • 1935: love is blind (source drôle de gosse)
  • 1935: Joli monde
  • 1935: Tovaritch
  • 1936: Le coupable
  • 1936: Courrier-sud
  • 1936: The new men (Les hommes nouveaux)
  • 1936: Feu
  • 1937: Ignace
  • 1937: Nights in Naples (Naples au baiser de feu)
  • 1937: Dunja (nostalgia)
  • 1937: Quadrille
  • 1938: Ernest le rebelle
  • 1938: Katja, the uncrowned Empress (Katia)
  • 1938: ultimatum
  • 1939: Cavalcade d'amour
  • 1939: Thieves and Love (Battement de cœur)
  • 1939: Le déserteur
  • 1941: Le dernier des six
  • 1941: Your first rendezvous (Premier rendez-vous)
  • 1942: The false mistress (La fausse maitresse)
  • 1942: Journey without hope (Le voyage sans espoir)
  • 1943: Colonel Chabert (Le colonel Chabert)
  • 1943: Échec au roi
  • 1943: Les Roquevillards
  • 1945: Un ami viendra ce soir
  • 1946: Adieu Chérie
  • 1946: Dreams of Love (Rêves d'amour)
  • 1947: The city of love (Clochemerle)
  • 1947: Les requins de Gibraltar
  • 1948: Meeting point Rio (Aux yeux du souvenir)
  • 1948: The secret of Mayerling (Le secret de Mayerling)
  • 1948: Judgment of one night (La nuit blanche)
  • 1949: Lady Paname
  • 1949: Majesty is having fun (Le roi)
  • 1950: ballerina
  • 1950: God needs people (Dieu a besoin des hommes)
  • 1951: Edouard and Caroline (Edouard et Caroline)
  • 1951: Hafengasse 5 (Le garçon sauvage)
  • 1951: gold helmet (Casque d'or)
  • 1951: Parisian Nights (Nuits de Paris)
  • 1952: Call of Fate (L'appel du destin)
  • 1952: One night's confession (La minute de vérité)
  • 1952: Dreamy Night (Plaisirs de Paris)
  • 1953: Awakening Hearts (Le blé en herbe)
  • 1953: In the big girls' dormitory (Dortoir des grandes)
  • 1954: The Maurizius case (L'affaire Maurizius)
  • 1954: Your Night of Love (Les fruits de l'été)
  • 1954: love, women and soldiers (Destinées)
  • 1954: Ali Baba (Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs)
  • 1954: murder on the roof garden (Bonnes à tuer)
  • 1955: Dawn (Cela s'appelle l'aurore)
  • 1955: The great maneuver (Les Grandes Manœuvres )
  • 1955: The Secret of Sister Angelika (Le secret de sœur Angèle)
  • 1956: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
  • 1957: Natali (Nathalie)
  • 1957: With your back to the wall (Le dos au mur)
  • 1957: The Mousetrap (Porte de lilas)
  • 1958: Life for Two (La vie à deux)
  • 1959: Marie-Octobre
  • 1959: Nathalie plays a secret agent (Nathalie agent secret)
  • 1959: Do you want to dance with me? (Voulez-vous danser avec moi?)
  • 1959: Bitter fruit of love (Les lionceaux)
  • 1959: A Sweet Disaster (Ravissante)
  • 1960: French women and love (La française et l'amour)
  • 1960: One night affair (L'affaire d'une nuit)
  • 1960: Candide
  • 1961: trained in freedom (La bride sur le cou)
  • 1961: Galant love stories (Les amours célèbres)
  • 1961: We ask for bed (Les petits matins)
  • 1962: The gorilla bares its teeth (Le gorille a mordu l'archevêque)
  • 1962: Prettier than the police allow (Comment réussir en amour)
  • 1963: Lots of corpses in Las Vegas (Blague dans le coin)
  • 1963: Le bon roi Dagobert
  • 1964: Monsieur cheats (Patate)
  • 1965: The ladies ask (Les bons vivants)
  • 1965: Dogs in the Night (Espions à l'affût)
  • 1966: Scourges of eroticism (La peur et l'amour)
  • 1966: Daughters of Sin (Une femme aux abois)
  • 1967: Love 2: 1 (La nuit la plus chaude)
  • 1969: Greta, the stranger came naked (Claude et Gréta)
  • 1970: Sex drinks champagne (Je suis une nymphomane)
  • 1972: Comment le désir vient aux filles
  • 1973: The house of unusual wishes (Club privé pour couples avertis)
  • 1973: The Sex Clinic (Serre-moi dans tes brasses)
  • 1974: La kermesse erotique
  • 1974: Sexual element votre

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 656.

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personal data
SURNAME Lefebvre, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Febvre, Robert Gérard Charles (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1989
Place of death Montfort-l'Amaury , France