Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas 28 September 1927 in Gap HautesAlpes 3 January 1989 was a French writer actor and film director As a writer almost from the beginning he was fascinated by a curious genre that he helped invent the comédie policière or comedy thriller of which Eight Women is an example In 1960 Thomas had a hit with Man Trap a humorous murder mystery which was an overnight success in Paris Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights and the play established Thomas as a writer of psychological crime dramas with a distinctively Gallic comic twist The following year the second outing of Eight Women was far more successful as it won the Hachette Prix du Quai des Orfevres for Best Play in 1961 Thomas was a prolific actor playwright and movie director If he is best known for Eight Women it is probably because it was adapted into a movie musical by François Ozon in 2002 with a starstudded lineup that included Catherine Deneuve Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart Thomass plays were never fashionable and he was often dismissed by French critics but he was a popular dramatist By the time he was 18 he claimed he had read every play published in French since 1900 Thomas died in 1989 in Paris Source Article Robert Thomas director from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30