Dany Robin

Dany Robin (French pronunciation: ​[dani ʁɔbɛ̃]; 14 April 1927 – 25 May 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the early 1960s.

Career

Robin was born Danielle Robin in Clamart. She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors, and co-starred opposite Kirk Douglas in the 1953 romantic drama Act of Love. Robin co-starred with Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige in Follow the Boys (1963). Her last leading role was the agent's wife Nicole Devereaux in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969).

Personal life and death

Robin was married to fellow actor Georges Marchal. On 25 May 1995, she and her second husband, Michael Sullivan, died in a fire in their apartment in Paris.

Selected filmography

• Six heures à perdre (1947)
• Elle et moi (1952)
• Les Amants de minuit (1953)
• Act of Love (1953)
• Julietta (1953)
• Frou-Frou (1955)
• Napoléon (1955)
• Bonsoir Paris, bonjour l'amour (fr) (1956)
• Les Dragueurs (fr) (1959)
• Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
• Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
• Les Mystères de Paris (1962)
• Follow the Boys (1963)
• Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
• The Best House in London (1969)
• Topaz (1969)