1927-12-30 Paris, France
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.
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L'amour c’est mieux que la vie | Robert Prat | 2022-01-19 |
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Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens | Self | 2022-11-03 |
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Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables | Self (archive footage) | 2021-01-15 |
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Le Fruit de l'espoir | Le grand-père d'Angeli | 2020-02-05 |
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Le Regard de Charles | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-10-02 |
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Belmondo par Belmondo | Self | 2016-05-05 |
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Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence | Self | 2014-08-01 |
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde | Self | 2011-10-25 |
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Une femme nommée Marie | Narrator (voice) | 2011-08-13 |
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Belmondo, itinéraire... | Self | 2011-05-18 |
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Un homme et son chien | Un homme a la soupe populaire | 2009-01-14 |
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Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju | Self | 2009-05-05 |
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Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie | Self | 2008-09-21 |
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La Disparue de Deauville | Antoine Bérangère | 2007-05-23 |
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Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern | Self | 2006-04-23 |
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San Antonio | Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister | 2004-07-21 |
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Antigone | Créon | 2003-05-05 |
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Gialloparma | Judge Bocchi | 1999-02-26 |
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Vénus beauté (institut) | L'aviateur | 1999-02-03 |
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M.D.C. - Maschera di cera | Boris Volkoff | 1997-04-04 |
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Les Misérables | Le maître de cérémonie | 1995-03-22 |
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L'Affaire | Paul Haslans | 1994-04-13 |
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L'Inconnu dans la maison | Narrator (voice) | 1992-10-03 |
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Les Enfants du désordre | Robert | 1989-11-22 |
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La croisade des enfants | Philippe-Auguste | 1988-04-07 |
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Lévy et Goliath | Goliath customer (uncredited) | 1987-01-27 |
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Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà | Robert Hossein | 1986-05-13 |
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Le Caviar rouge | Alex | 1986-01-08 |
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Surprise Party | André Auerbach | 1983-04-20 |
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Le Grand Pardon | Manuel Carreras | 1982-01-27 |
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Le Professionnel | Commissaire Rosen | 1981-10-21 |
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Les uns et les autres | Simon Meyer / Robert Prat | 1981-05-27 |
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Démons de midi | Metteur en scène de théâtre | 1979-11-28 |
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Le Faux-cul | Kaminsky | 1975-10-14 |
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Le Protecteur | Arnaud | 1974-06-05 |
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Le Tour d'Écrou | Peter Quint | 1974-02-25 |
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Un officier de police sans importance | Pierre Fresse | 1973-04-12 |
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Don Juan ou si Don Juan était une femme... | Louis Prévost | 1973-02-22 |
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Prêtres interdits | Jean Rastaud | 1973-11-22 |
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Hellé | Kleber | 1972-05-02 |
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Un meurtre est un meurtre | Jean Carouse | 1972-08-23 |
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Le Casse | Ralph | 1971-10-27 |
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La part des lions | Maurice Ménard | 1971-09-08 |
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Le juge | Black Bird | 1971-03-03 |
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Les belles au bois dormantes | Serge Belaïeff | 1970-05-06 |
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Point de Chute | Le Caïd | 1970-09-11 |
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Le Temps des loups | Dillinger | 1970-01-21 |
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Le Voleur de crimes | Tian | 1969-05-22 |
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La Femme écarlate | Julien | 1969-05-14 |
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La battaglia del deserto | Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français) | 1969-07-30 |
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Nell'anno del Signore | Leonida Montanari | 1969-10-24 |
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Maldonne | Martin von Klaus | 1969-04-30 |
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La battaglia di El Alamein | Erwin Rommel | 1969-01-01 |
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La vie, l'amour, la mort | Man in the movie | 1969-01-29 |
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Une corde, un Colt... | Manuel | 1969-01-25 |
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Niente rose per OSS 117 | Dr. Saadi | 1968-07-27 |
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Angélique et le Sultan | Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator" | 1968-03-13 |
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La Petite Vertu | Louis Brady | 1968-02-21 |
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La Leçon particulière | Enrico Fontana | 1968-12-20 |
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Indomptable Angélique | Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator' | 1967-01-01 |
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L'homme qui trahit la mafia | Maître Bianchini | 1967-05-20 |
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La Musica | Him | 1967-03-03 |
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Lamiel | Roger Valber | 1967-08-30 |
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J'ai tué Raspoutine | Serge Sukhotin | 1967-05-03 |
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La Longue Marche | Carnot | 1966-05-31 |
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Angélique et le Roy | Jeoffrey de Peyrac | 1966-01-31 |
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Brigade antigangs | Chief Commissioner Le Goff | 1966-08-18 |
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Madamigella di Maupin | Captain Alcibiade | 1966-01-13 |
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La Seconde Vérité | Pierre Montaud, the Advocate | 1966-04-19 |
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Le Vampire de Düsseldorf | Peter Kuerten | 1965-04-07 |
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Le Tonnerre de Dieu | Marcel | 1965-09-08 |
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The Dirty Game | Dupont | 1965-06-23 |
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête | The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...") | 1965-07-28 |
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La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo | Prince Nayam | 1965-08-06 |
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Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117 | Dr. Sinn | 1964-06-12 |
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Les yeux cernés | Franz | 1964-09-02 |
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La Mort d'un tueur | Pierre Massa | 1964-04-01 |
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Pourquoi Paris ? | 1964-06-24 | |
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Angélique, marquise des anges | Jeoffrey de Peyrac | 1964-12-08 |
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Les grands chemins | Samuel | 1963-07-08 |
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Chair de poule | Daniel Boisset | 1963-11-13 |
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Le Vice et la Vertu | SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf | 1963-03-01 |
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Le Meurtrier | Inspektor Corby | 1963-01-11 |
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Les Petits Matins | Edouard, le fou | 1962-03-16 |
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Le Monte-charge | Robert Herbin | 1962-05-04 |
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Le Repos du guerrier | Renaud Sarti | 1962-09-05 |
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Madame Sans-Gêne | Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre | 1961-12-21 |
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Le Jeu de la vérité | L'inspecteur de police | 1961-11-26 |
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Le Goût de la violence | Perez | 1961-08-10 |
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La Menace | Savary | 1961-03-01 |
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Les canailles | Ed Dawson | 1960-01-29 |
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Les Scélérats | Jess Rooland | 1960-05-08 |
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Звёзды встречаются в Москве | 1959-08-30 | |
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La Sentence | Georges Lagrange | 1959-10-02 |
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Du rififi chez les femmes | Marcel Point-Bleu | 1959-05-20 |
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Toi... le venin | Pierre Menda | 1959-03-27 |
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Des femmes disparaissent | Pierre Rossi | 1959-04-30 |
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La Nuit des espions | Lui | 1959-09-09 |
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V proudech | Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis | 1958-05-16 |
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Méfiez-vous fillettes | Raven | 1957-07-04 |
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Sait-on jamais... | Sforzi | 1957-05-31 |
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Crime et châtiment | René Brunel | 1956-12-04 |
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Pardonnez nos offenses | (uncredited) | 1956-08-01 |
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Les salauds vont en enfer | Fred | 1955-12-07 |
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Série noire | Jo | 1955-03-04 |
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Du rififi chez les hommes | Rémi Grutter | 1955-04-13 |
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Quai des blondes | Chemise Rose | 1954-04-07 |
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Maya | Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited) | 1949-12-09 |
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Aux yeux du souvenir | A student from the Simon course | 1948-11-24 |
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Le Diable boiteux | Guest in white (uncredited) | 1948-07-11 |
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Les souvenirs ne sont pas à vendre | 1948-09-17 |
