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Robert Hossein
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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 tradeâŠ
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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.
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Robert Hossein's Filmography
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Picking Strawberries
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
as Self
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Love Is Better Than Life
as Robert Prat
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
as Self (archive footage)
Noni : Le Fruit de l'espoir
as Le grand-pĂšre d'Angeli
Aznavour by Charles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Belmondo by Belmondo
as Self
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
as Self
Belmondo, il Ă©tait une fois le beau monde
as Self
Une femme nommée Marie
as Narrator (voice)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
as Self
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
as Self
A Man and His Dog
as Un homme a la soupe populaire
Du rififi chez les hommes - Jules Dassin, l'élégance du noir
as Himself
No Poster
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
as Self
Trivial
as Antoine BĂ©rangĂšre
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
as Self
San Antonio
as Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
Antigone
as Créon
Scandalous Crimes
as Judge Bocchi
Venus Beauty Institute
as L'aviateur
The Wax Mask
as Boris Volkoff
Les Miserables
as Le maßtre de cérémonie
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
as Self
L'Affaire
as Paul Haslans
Stranger in the House
as Narrator (voice)
Children of Chaos
as Robert
No Poster
La croisade des enfants
as Philippe-Auguste
Levy & Goliath
as Goliath customer (uncredited)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
as Robert Hossein
Le Caviar rouge
as Alex
Surprise Party
as André Auerbach
The Big Pardon
as Manuel Carreras
The Professional
as Commissaire Rosen
Bolero
as Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
DĂ©mons de midi
as Metteur en scÚne de théùtre
The Phoney
as Kaminsky
The Protector
as Arnaud
Le Tour d'Ăcrou
as Peter Quint
PrĂȘtres interdits
as Jean Rastaud
A Police Officer Without Importance
as Pierre Fresse
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
as Louis Prévost
A Murder Is a Murder
as Jean Carouse
Hellé
as Kleber
The Burglars
as Ralph
The Lion's Share
as Maurice MĂ©nard
Judge Roy Bean
as Black Bird
Falling Point
as Le CaĂŻd
Versatile Lovers
as Serge BelaĂŻeff
Time of the Wolves
as Dillinger
The Conspirators
as Leonida Montanari
Desert Assault
as Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
Crime Thief
as Tian
The Scarlet Lady
as Julien
Misdeal
as Martin von Klaus
Life Love Death
as Man in the movie
Cemetery without Crosses
as Manuel
The Battle of El Alamein
as Erwin Rommel
Once Upon a Time in the West
as Member of Frank's Gang in Flashback (uncredited)
Tender Moment
as Enrico Fontana
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
as Dr. Saadi
Angelique and the Sultan
as Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
A Little Virtuous
as Louis Brady
Untamable Angelique
as Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
Lamiel
as Roger Valber
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
as MaĂźtre Bianchini
I Killed Rasputin
as Serge Sukhotin
La Musica
as Him
Brigade Anti Gangs
as Chief Commissioner Le Goff
Long March
as Carnot
The Other Truth
as Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
Angelique and the King
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Mademoiselle de Maupin
as Captain Alcibiade
God's Thunder
as Marcel
Marco the Magnificent
as Prince Nayam
Le commissaire mĂšne lâenquĂȘte
as The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
The Dirty Game
as Dupont
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
as Peter Kuerten
Angelique
as Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Marked Eyes
as Franz
Why Paris?
Shadow of Evil
as Dr. Sinn
Death of a Killer
as Pierre Massa
Highway Pick-Up
as Daniel Boisset
No Poster
Of Flesh and Blood
as Samuel
Vice and Virtue
as SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
Enough Rope
as Inspektor Corby
Love on a Pillow
as Renaud Sarti
Paris Pick-Up
as Robert Herbin
Hitch-Hike
as Edouard, le fou
Madame
as Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
The Game of Truth
as L'inspecteur de police
The Taste of Violence
as Perez
The Menace
as Savary
The Wretches
as Jess Rooland
Take Me As I Am
as Ed Dawson
The Verdict
as Georges Lagrange
Double Agents
as Lui
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
Riff Raff Girls
as Marcel Point-Bleu
The Road to Shame
as Pierre Rossi
Blonde in a White Car
as Pierre Menda
Provisional Liberty
as Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
Young Girls Beware
as Raven
No Sun in Venice
as Sforzi
Crime and Punishment
as René Brunel
Forgive Our Trespasses
as (uncredited)
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Fred
Rififi
as RĂ©mi Grutter
No Poster
SĂ©rie noire
as Jo
Quai des blondes
as Chemise Rose
Maya
as Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
In the Eyes of Memory
as A student from the Simon course
Sextette
The Devil Who Limped
as Guest in white (uncredited)