8.0
8.0
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
2008
as Self
Robert Hossein
Acting
Born:December 30, 1927
Died:December 31, 2020(aged 93)
Birthplace:Paris, France
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CommunityBiography
Robert Hossein was a French film actor of Parsi origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent roles include starring as Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Prêtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) in 1973. Hossein started directing films in 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by Frédéric 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 tué 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 André 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.
Filmography (105 movies)
7.8
7.8
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
as Self
7.8
7.8
Rififi
1955
as Rémi Grutter
7.7
7.7
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
1964
as Dr. Sinn
7.6
7.6
The Conspirators
1969
as Leonida Montanari
7.2
7.2
The Professional
1981
as Commissaire Rosen
7.0
7.0
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009
as Self
7.0
7.0
Crime and Punishment
1956
as René Brunel
7.0
7.0
Le Tour d'Écrou
1974
as Peter Quint
7.0
7.0
The Burglars
1971
as Ralph
6.9
6.9
Aznavour by Charles
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
Les Misérables
1982
Director
6.9
6.9
The Taste of Violence
1961
Screenplay
6.9
6.9
Bolero
1981
as Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
6.8
6.8
Highway Pick-Up
1963
as Daniel Boisset
6.7
6.7
Angelique
1964
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
6.6
6.6
Les Miserables
1995
as Le maître de cérémonie
6.6
6.6
Blonde in a White Car
1959
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
as Self
6.5
6.5
Untamable Angelique
1967
as Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
6.5
6.5
Stranger in the House
1992
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
Angelique and the King
1966
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
6.5
6.5
Antigone
2003
as Créon
6.5
6.5
Brigade Anti Gangs
1966
as Chief Commissioner Le Goff
6.4
6.4
Angelique and the Sultan
1968
as Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
6.4
6.4
Cemetery Without Crosses
1969
Writer
6.3
6.3
God's Thunder
1965
as Marcel
6.2
6.2
The Wicked Go to Hell
1955
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
The Wretches
1960
Director
6.2
6.2
The Big Pardon
1982
as Manuel Carreras
6.1
6.1
A Little Virtuous
1968
as Louis Brady
6.0
6.0
Take Me As I Am
1960
as Ed Dawson
6.0
6.0
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self
6.0
6.0
Mademoiselle de Maupin
1966
as Captain Alcibiade
6.0
6.0
The Road to Shame
1959
as Pierre Rossi
6.0
6.0
Judge Roy Bean
1971
as Black Bird
6.0
6.0
Paris Pick-Up
1962
as Robert Herbin
5.9
5.9
Death of a Killer
1964
Director
5.9
5.9
The Game of Truth
1961
Writer
5.8
5.8
Riff Raff Girls
1959
as Marcel Point-Bleu
5.8
5.8
Marked Eyes
1964
Director
5.8
5.8
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986
as Robert Hossein
5.8
5.8
The Other Truth
1966
as Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
5.8
5.8
Tender Moment
1968
as Enrico Fontana
5.8
5.8
Falling Point
1970
Director
5.8
5.8
Venus Beauty Institute
1999
as L'aviateur
5.7
5.7
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
1968
as Dr. Saadi
5.7
5.7
The Scarlet Lady
1969
as Julien
5.7
5.7
Love on a Pillow
1962
as Renaud Sarti
5.6
5.6
The Dirty Game
1965
as Dupont
5.6
5.6
Madame
1961
as Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
5.6
5.6
Enough Rope
1963
as Inspektor Corby
5.6
5.6
The Wax Mask
1997
as Boris Volkoff
5.5
5.5
The Menace
1961
as Savary
5.5
5.5
Hitch-Hike
1962
as Edouard, le fou
5.4
5.4
Double Agents
1959
Director
5.4
5.4
Vice and Virtue
1963
as SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
5.4
5.4
Time of the Wolves
1970
as Dillinger
5.3
5.3
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
1965
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
Love Is Better Than Life
2022
as Robert Prat
5.3
5.3
Quai des blondes
1954
as Chemise Rose
5.2
5.2
The Battle of El Alamein
1969
as Erwin Rommel
5.2
5.2
A Murder Is a Murder
1972
as Jean Carouse
5.2
5.2
Crime Thief
1969
as Tian
5.1
5.1
Children of Chaos
1989
as Robert
5.1
5.1
No Sun in Venice
1957
as Sforzi
5.0
5.0
Série noire
1955
as Jo
5.0
5.0
Forgive Our Trespasses
1956
Director
4.8
4.8
Lamiel
1967
as Roger Valber
4.8
4.8
Marco the Magnificent
1965
as Prince Nayam
4.8
4.8
Young Girls Beware
1957
as Raven
4.7
4.7
Desert Assault
1969
as Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
4.5
4.5
Surprise Party
1983
as André Auerbach
4.5
4.5
Prêtres interdits
1973
as Jean Rastaud
4.5
4.5
La Musica
1967
as Him
4.3
4.3
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
1973
as Louis Prévost
4.2
4.2
Hellé
1972
as Kleber
4.2
4.2
The Phoney
1975
as Kaminsky
4.2
4.2
Trivial
2007
as Antoine Bérangère
4.0
4.0
Provisional Liberty
1958
as Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
4.0
4.0
The Lion's Share
1971
as Maurice Ménard
3.8
3.8
I Killed Rasputin
1967
Writer
3.4
3.4
San Antonio
2004
as Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
3.2
3.2
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
1967
as Maître Bianchini
3.2
3.2
Scandalous Crimes
1999
as Judge Bocchi
2.8
2.8
L'Affaire
1994
as Paul Haslans
2.7
2.7
The Protector
1974
as Arnaud
2.5
2.5
Misdeal
1969
as Martin von Klaus
2.5
2.5
Versatile Lovers
1970
as Serge Belaïeff
Démons de midi
1979
as Metteur en scène de théâtre
Une femme nommée Marie
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Le Caviar rouge
1986
Director
La croisade des enfants
1988
as Philippe-Auguste
Why Paris?
1964
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
1965
as The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
Le Fruit de l'espoir
2020
as Le grand-père d'Angeli
The Verdict
1959
Writer
A Police Officer Without Importance
1973
as Pierre Fresse
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
2014
as Self
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
2022
as Self
Long March
1966
as Carnot
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
Of Flesh and Blood
1963
as Samuel
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
Director
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