Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein

Acting 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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2011 Stage Director
2009 Un homme a la soupe populaire
2007 Antoine Bérangère
2006 Simon
2005 Roger Marino
2004 Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
2003 Créon
2003 Art Direction
1999 L'aviateur
1999 Judge Bocchi
1998 Self
1997 Boris Volkoff
1995 Le maître de cérémonie
1994 Paul Haslans
1992 Narrator (voice)
1990 Joseph Beaucis
1990 Self
1990 Director
1989 Robert
1988 Philippe-Auguste
1988 Stage Director
1987 Goliath customer (uncredited)
1987 Self
1987 Self
1987 Self
1986 Alex
1986 Screenplay
1986 Director
1983 André Auerbach
1982 Manuel Carreras
1982 Self
1982 Director
1982 Screenplay
1981 Commissaire Rosen
1981 Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
1979 Metteur en scène de théâtre
1975 Kaminsky
1975 Self
1975 Stage Director
1974 Arnaud
1974 Peter Quint
1974 Self
1973 Jean Rastaud
1973 Louis Prévost
1973 Pierre Fresse
1972 Jean Carouse
1972 Kleber
1972 Self
1972 Self - Main Guest
1972 Self
1971 Ralph
1971 Black Bird
1971 Maurice Ménard
1971 Self
1970 Serge Belaïeff
1970 Dillinger
1970 Le Caïd
1970 Director
1970 Writer
1969 Manuel
1969 Erwin Rommel
1969 Leonida Montanari
1969 Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
1969 Julien
1969 Martin von Klaus
1969 Man in the movie
1969 Tian
1969 Writer
1969 Director
1968 Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
1968 Louis Brady
1968 Enrico Fontana
1968 Dr. Saadi
1967 Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
1967 Him
1967 Serge Sukhotin
1967 Roger Valber
1967 Maître Bianchini
1967 Director
1967 Writer
1966 Carnot
1966 Captain Alcibiade
1966 Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
1966 Chief Commissioner Le Goff
1965 Peter Kuerten
1965 Marcel
1965 Prince Nayam
1965 Dupont
1965 The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
1965 Director
1965 Screenplay
1964 Pierre Massa
1964 Franz
1964 Dr. Sinn
1964 Director
1964 Story
1964 Director
1964 Adaptation
1964 Screenplay
1963 Daniel Boisset
1963 Inspektor Corby
1963 SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
1963 Samuel
1963 Co-Producer
1962 Renaud Sarti
1962 Robert Herbin
1962 Edouard, le fou
1961 L'inspecteur de police
1961 Perez
1961 Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
1961 Savary
1961 Dialogue
1961 Screenplay
1961 Director
1961 Director
1961 Writer
1960 Jess Rooland
1960 Ed Dawson
1960 Director
1960 Screenplay
1959 Pierre Menda
1959 Marcel Point-Bleu
1959 Georges Lagrange
1959 Pierre Rossi
1959 Lui
1959 Director
1959 Director
1959 Screenplay
1959 Screenplay
1959 Writer
1958 Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
1957 Raven
1957 Sforzi
1956 René Brunel
1956 (uncredited)
1956 Self
1956 Screenplay
1956 Director
1955 Rémi Grutter
1955 Fred
1955 Jo
1955 Director
1955 Screenplay
1954 Chemise Rose
1954 Self
1949 Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
1948 Guest in white (uncredited)
1948 A student from the Simon course