Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed Merci Bernard and since 1988 works on Palace. In 2008, Ribes had directed Batailles which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the Un garçon impossible, a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and Roland Dubillard's Les Diablogues. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux, on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play Théâtre sans animaux and Sébastien Thiéry's L’Origine du Monde in 2013. Source: Article "Jean-Michel Ribes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

• 2025Arditi et ceux qu'il aime — Author
• 2021Kadoc — Director
• 2021Ça repart ! — Director
• 2020Palace sur scène — Director
• 2019Snowlidays — Writer
• 2014Brèves de comptoir — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2010Les nouvelles brèves de comptoir — Director
• 2009Wild Grass — le 2ème patient
• 2008A Day at the Museum — Writer, Director, Theatre Play
• 2008Batailles — Stage Director, Theatre Play
• 2008The Maiden and the Wolves — Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire
• 2006Private Fears in Public Places — Screenplay
• 2005Musée haut, musée bas — Stage Director, Theatre Play
• 2004Le Complexe de Thénardier — Director, Stage Director
• 2002Guy Bedos à l'Olympia — Director, Author
• 2002Le Grand Mezze — Producer
• 2002Patrick Bosso - Les talons devant — Director
• 2000Rêver peut-être — Director, Stage Director
• 1999Les Nouvelles brèves de comptoir — Director
• 1997Balkanisateur
• 1994B comme Bolo — Director, Writer
• 1994Every Man for Yourself — Writer, Director
• 1993Brèves de comptoir — Director
• 1991The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish — Beggar
• 1990François Rollin - Hirondelles de saucisson — Director
• 1990The Elegant Criminal — Lebel
• Palace — Writer, Director, Creator
• 1988Ça, c'est Palace
• 1986La Galette du roi — Writer, Director
• 1985Sincerely Charlotte — Roger
• 1983Move Along, There Is Nothing to See! — Le patron du tabac
• 1982L'Apprentissage de la ville — Doctor
• Merci Bernard — Director, Producer, Creator
• 1982Singles — Commissioner
• 1982The Big Brother — Client de Zina
• 1980The Lady Banker — Clerk
• 1979Out of Whack — Director
• 1979Private Collections — Writer
• 1979The Bit Between the Teeth
• 1975First Time with Feeling — Writer
• 1972To Be Twenty in the Aures — Priest
• 1971Troubleshooters — Carlo

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2025Jacques Villeret, drôlement tragique — Self
• 2022Bacri, comme un air de famille — Self
• 2021Michel Sardou une vie en chantant — Self
• We're Live — Self - Guest
• 2018Muriel Robin, oser être soi... — Self
• 28 minutes — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Télématin — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self