Cast
Robert Hossein
Acting
Cast
Robert Hossein
Known for
Acting
Born
1927-12-30
From
Paris, France
Died
2020-12-31
Also known as Abraham Hosseinoff, Đ ĐŸĐ±Đ”Ń ĐŃŃĐ”ĐčĐœ
Biography
Robert Hossein was a French film actor of Parsi origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les MisĂ©rables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent roles include starring as MichĂšle Mercier's husband in the AngĂ©lique series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in PrĂȘtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) in 1973. Hossein started directing films in 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by FrĂ©dĂ©ric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete disregard of the traditional demand for a final twist or revelation) in order to concentrate on ritualistic relationships. This is the director's running preoccupation which is always stressed in his films by an extraordinary command of film space and often striking frame compositions where the geometry of human figures and set design is used to accentuate the psychological set-up of the scene. The mechanisms of guilt and the way it destroys relationships is another recurring theme, presumably influenced by Hossein's lifelong interest in the works of Dostoyevski. Although Hossein had some modest international successes with films like Toi, le venin and Le vampire de Dusseldorf, he was much singled out for scorching criticism by the critics and followers of the New Wave for the unashamedly melodramatic frameworks of his films. The fact that he was essentially an auteur director with a consistent set of themes and an extraordinary mastery of original and unusual approaches to staging his stories, was never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama J'ai tuĂ© Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Hossein virtually ended his film directing career in 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and subsequently returning to film directing only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see. He is the son of AndrĂ© Hossein a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (he has two sons with her, Pierre and Igor), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Nicholas). He is currently married to actress Candice Patou, with whom he has one son, Julien. According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Hossein experienced a conversion to Catholicism in 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano in Lombardo Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hossein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Professional
as Commissaire Rosen
Rififi
as RĂ©mi Grutter
Angelique
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Venus Beauty Institute
as L'aviateur
Angelique and the Sultan
as Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
Lamiel
as Roger Valber
Bolero
as Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Madame
as Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
Cemetery Without Crosses
as Manuel
Marco the Magnificent
as Prince Nayam
Angelique and the King
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Love on a Pillow
as Renaud Sarti
The Burglars
as Ralph
Les Miserables
as Le maßtre de cérémonie
Belmondo, itinéraire...
as Self
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
as Dr. Sinn
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
as Peter Kuerten
The Devil Who Limped
as Guest in white (uncredited)
Untamable Angelique
as Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
Belmondo, il Ă©tait une fois le beau monde
as Self
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
San Antonio
as Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
as MaĂźtre Bianchini
Crime and Punishment
as René Brunel
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Robert Hossein
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
as Self
The Wax Mask
as Boris Volkoff
Belmondo by Belmondo
as Self
The Dirty Game
as Dupont
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
as Louis Prévost
The Other Truth
as Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
The Battle of El Alamein
as Erwin Rommel
Hellé
as Kleber
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
as Dr. Saadi
Vice and Virtue
as SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
L'Affaire
as Paul Haslans
Riff Raff Girls
as Marcel Point-Bleu
Highway Pick-Up
as Daniel Boisset
Trivial
as Antoine BĂ©rangĂšre
SĂ©rie noire
as Jo
Judge Roy Bean
as Black Bird
Aznavour by Charles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Maya
as Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
Levy & Goliath
as Goliath customer (uncredited)
The Big Pardon
as Manuel Carreras
I Killed Rasputin
as Serge Sukhotin
DĂ©mons de midi
as Metteur en scÚne de théùtre
Versatile Lovers
as Serge BelaĂŻeff
Hitch-Hike
as Edouard, le fou
Blonde in a White Car
as Pierre Menda
A Man and His Dog
as Un homme a la soupe populaire
Paris Pick-Up
as Robert Herbin
Scandalous Crimes
as Judge Bocchi
Life Love Death
as Man in the movie
Misdeal
as Martin von Klaus
Brigade Anti Gangs
as Chief Commissioner Le Goff
Of Flesh and Blood
as Samuel
The Conspirators
as Leonida Montanari
Tender Moment
as Enrico Fontana
Surprise Party
as André Auerbach
Double Agents
as Lui
The Protector
as Arnaud
The Road to Shame
as Pierre Rossi
No Sun in Venice
as Sforzi
Crime Thief
as Tian
Time of the Wolves
as Dillinger
Why Paris?
The Phoney
as Kaminsky
Young Girls Beware
as Raven
A Little Virtuous
as Louis Brady
Love Is Better Than Life
as Robert Prat
Le commissaire mĂšne lâenquĂȘte
as The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
The Menace
as Savary
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
Long March
as Carnot
Death of a Killer
as Pierre Massa
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Fred
The Scarlet Lady
as Julien
Children of Chaos
as Robert
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
as Self
Enough Rope
as Inspektor Corby
PrĂȘtres interdits
as Jean Rastaud
The Verdict
as Georges Lagrange
In the Eyes of Memory
as A student from the Simon course
Desert Assault
as Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
as Self (archive footage)
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
as Self
La croisade des enfants
as Philippe-Auguste
Quai des blondes
as Chemise Rose
The Lion's Share
as Maurice MĂ©nard
Mademoiselle de Maupin
as Captain Alcibiade
God's Thunder
as Marcel
Une femme nommée Marie
as Narrator (voice)
A Police Officer Without Importance
as Pierre Fresse
Provisional Liberty
as Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
Sextette
The Wretches
as Jess Rooland
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
as Self
Le Caviar rouge
as Alex
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
as Self
Stranger in the House
as Narrator (voice)
The Taste of Violence
as Perez
Take Me As I Am
as Ed Dawson
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
as Self
A Murder Is a Murder
as Jean Carouse
Marked Eyes
as Franz
Antigone
as Créon
Forgive Our Trespasses
as (uncredited)
The Game of Truth
as L'inspecteur de police
Falling Point
as Le CaĂŻd
Le Tour d'Ăcrou
as Peter Quint
La Musica
as Him
Noni : Le Fruit de l'espoir
as Le grand-pĂšre d'Angeli
