- Davis, Robin
- (Robert Jacques Davis / March 29, 1943, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France - )He gave up his studies in law and literature and landed a job of trainee (1966 L'Or et le Plomb, Alain Cuniot, shot in 1964) before working with Georges Lautner as second assistant director (1968 Le Pacha / La fredda alba del commissario Joss, Georges Laut-ner, France / Italy; 1970 La Route de Salina / Quando il sole scotta / UK and USA: Road to Salina, Georges Lautner, France / Italy) and second unit director (1974 Les Seins de Glace / Esecutore oltre la legge / UK: Someone Is Bleeding / USA: Icy Breasts / Icy Flesh, Georges Lautner, France / Italy). Other credit (as technical consultant): 1977 Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (Pierre Boutron).Filmography1972 ◘ Une Méchante petite Fille (short)1975 ◘ Ce Cher Victor / USA: Cher Victor (also co-screenwriter)1979 La Guerre des Polices / UK: The Police War◘ Le Choc / UK and USA: Contract in Blood / Shock (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)◘ J'ai épousé une Ombre / UK and USA: I Married a Dead Man / I Married a Shadow (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)1985 ◘ Hors-la-Loi1990 ◘ La Fille des Collines (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)Television Filmography1987 ◘ Mary de Cork◘ The Hitchhiker / Le Voyageur (episodes "The Lover", "Offspring"; Canada / France / USA)◘ Sur les Lieux du Crime (episode "Monkey Business")◘ Counterstrike / Force de Frappe (also co-screenwriter; episodes "Skin Deep", "I Remember It Well", "Circus Ring"; Canada / France)◘ Highlander (also co-screenwriter; episodes "Lady and the Tiger", "For Tomorrow We Die")1994 ◘ La Rage au Coeur (also co-screenwriter)◘ Flairs ennemis◘ Sulky◘ Les Rives du Paradis (also co-screenwriter)◘ Le Frère Irlandais (France / Belgium / Switzerland)◘ Léa Parker (episodes "Boxe thaïe", "Grand Hôtel", "Casino clandestine", "Le Serpent de Jade", "La Recrue")◘ Léa Parker (episodes "Pont-Neuf", "Belles de Jour", "Trafic portuaire" "Combat clandestin")◘ Léa Parker (episodes "Le Ballet", "La Loi du Silence", "Entre la Vie et la Mort")◘ Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.