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Robert Hossein
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Acting
Birthday
1927-12-30,Paris, France
Gender
Male
Biography
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

7.8

Rififi
1955-04-13

The Professional

7.2

The Professional
1981-10-21

4.2

Trivial
2007-05-23

Prêtres interdits

4.5

Prêtres interdits
1973-11-22

Love Is Better Than Life

5.2

Love Is Better Than Life
2022-01-19

Versatile Lovers

3

Versatile Lovers
1970-05-06

Cemetery Without Crosses

6.4

Cemetery Without Crosses
1969-01-25

Angelique and the King

6.5

Angelique and the King
1966-01-31

7

The Burglars
1971-10-27

Venus Beauty Institute

5.8

Venus Beauty Institute
1999-02-03

5.7

The Wax Mask
1997-04-04

Bolero: Dance of Life

6.9

Bolero: Dance of Life
1981-05-27

Crime and Punishment

7

Crime and Punishment
1956-12-04

Angelique and the Sultan

6.4

Angelique and the Sultan
1968-03-13

Untamable Angelique

6.6

Untamable Angelique
1967-01-01

6.724

Angelique
1964-12-08

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

6

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011-10-25

The Vampire of Dusseldorf

5.6

The Vampire of Dusseldorf
1965-04-07

Love on a Pillow

5.912

Love on a Pillow
1962-09-05

Children of Chaos

5.1

Children of Chaos
1989-11-22

0

Long March
1966-05-31

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables

0

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021-01-15

Forgive Our Trespasses

5

Forgive Our Trespasses
1956-08-01

Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens

0

Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
2022-11-03

3.6

San Antonio
2004-07-21

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

4.3

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
1973-02-22

6.3

God's Thunder
1965-09-08

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

5.6

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
1986-05-13

Blonde in a White Car

6.6

Blonde in a White Car
1959-03-27

0

Sextette
1948-09-17

The Devil Who Limped

6.4

The Devil Who Limped
1948-07-11

In the Eyes of Memory

6.6

In the Eyes of Memory
1948-11-24

6.7

Les Miserables
1995-03-22

5.6

Maya
1949-12-09

6

Paris Pick-Up
1962-05-04

5.5

Hitch-Hike
1962-03-16

The Game of Truth

5.9

The Game of Truth
1961-11-26

Death of a Killer

5.8

Death of a Killer
1964-04-01

5.8

Marked Eyes
1964-09-02

The Battle of El Alamein

5.4

The Battle of El Alamein
1969-01-01

Scandalous Crimes

3.3

Scandalous Crimes
1999-02-26

A Little Virtuous

6.1

A Little Virtuous
1968-02-21

4.2

The Phoney
1975-10-14

Stranger in the House

6.4

Stranger in the House
1992-10-03

3.5

The Protector
1974-06-05

Marco the Magnificent

5.286

Marco the Magnificent
1965-08-06

Highway Pick-Up

6.8

Highway Pick-Up
1963-11-13

Belmondo, itinéraire...

7.5

Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011-05-18

5.7

Tender Moment
1968-12-20

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

0

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
2014-08-01

Time of the Wolves

5.4

Time of the Wolves
1970-01-21

Riff Raff Girls

5.8

Riff Raff Girls
1959-05-20

The Taste of Violence

7.1

The Taste of Violence
1961-08-10

OSS 117 Murder for Sale

5.667

OSS 117 Murder for Sale
1968-07-27

The Wicked Go to Hell

6.2

The Wicked Go to Hell
1955-12-07

0

The Verdict
1959-10-02

5.3

Enough Rope
1963-01-11

Mademoiselle de Maupin

6

Mademoiselle de Maupin
1966-01-13

5.6

Madame
1961-12-21

A Murder Is a Murder

5.2

A Murder Is a Murder
1972-08-23

A Police Officer Without Importance

0

A Police Officer Without Importance
1973-04-12

5.8

The Dirty Game
1965-06-23

The Road to Shame

6

The Road to Shame
1959-04-30

The Conspirators

7.5

The Conspirators
1969-10-24

5

Desert Assault
1969-07-30

5.8

Falling Point
1970-09-11

5.4

Double Agents
1959-09-09

4.5

La Musica
1967-03-03

The Scarlet Lady

5.7

The Scarlet Lady
1969-05-14

6.2

The Wretches
1960-05-08

The Other Truth

5

The Other Truth
1966-04-19

Vice and Virtue

5.5

Vice and Virtue
1963-03-01

I Killed Rasputin

4.4

I Killed Rasputin
1967-05-03

A Man and His Dog

5.857

A Man and His Dog
2009-01-14

3

Misdeal
1969-04-30

Young Girls Beware

5.3

Young Girls Beware
1957-07-04

5.1

Levy & Goliath
1987-01-27

Le Caviar rouge

0

Le Caviar rouge
1986-01-08

3.5

Surprise Party
1983-04-20

Brigade Anti Gangs

6.2

Brigade Anti Gangs
1966-08-18

Life Love Death

5.1

Life Love Death
1969-01-29

0

Why Paris?
1964-06-24

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

0

Le commissaire mène l’enquête
1965-07-28

4.6

Hellé
1972-05-02

Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie

8

Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
2008-09-21

5.1

Crime Thief
1969-05-22

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

7.8

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
1964-06-12

4.8

Lamiel
1967-08-30

Une femme nommée Marie

0

Une femme nommée Marie
2011-08-13

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

6.6

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006-04-23

5.5

The Menace
1961-03-01

Of Flesh and Blood

0

Of Flesh and Blood
1963-07-08

6

Judge Roy Bean
1971-03-03

3

L'Affaire
1994-04-13

Le tour d'écrou

7

Le tour d'écrou
1974-02-25

Stars Meet in Moscow

0

Stars Meet in Moscow
1959-08-30

5.1

Crime Thief
1969-05-22

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

7

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009-05-05

Take Me As I Am

6

Take Me As I Am
1960-01-29

6.7

Antigone
2003-05-05

0

Démons de midi
1979-11-28

The Lion's Share

4

The Lion's Share
1971-09-08

Provisional Liberty

4

Provisional Liberty
1958-05-16

La croisade des enfants

0

La croisade des enfants
1988-04-07

Belmondo by Belmondo

7.8

Belmondo by Belmondo
2016-05-05

The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia

3.2

The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
1967-05-20

Le Fruit de l'espoir

0

Le Fruit de l'espoir
2020-02-05

No Sun in Venice

5.1

No Sun in Venice
1957-05-31

Aznavour by Charles

6.9

Aznavour by Charles
2019-10-02

6.2

The Big Pardon
1982-01-27

Quai des blondes

5.3

Quai des blondes
1954-04-07

2

Série noire
1955-03-04

Nulle part ailleurs

5.6

Nulle part ailleurs
1987-08-31

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

7

Le Gorille
1990-04-29

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

7.4

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009-01-09

Petits Meurtres en famille

7.9

Petits Meurtres en famille
2006-11-14

0

Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

6.2

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

8

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

9

Le Juge
2005-05-23

5

Téléthon
1987-12-04

Vivement dimanche

3.2

Vivement dimanche
1998-09-20

6.2

Stars 90
1990-09-03

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

6

Midi trente
1972-03-06

6.2

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02

Reflets de Cannes

0

Reflets de Cannes
1954-03-25