Robert Hossein actor
- All known tv series 18
- Total known movies 112
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 Merciers 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 directors 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 Hosseins 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 Jai 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.
Rémi Grutter
Movie 1955
Commissaire Rosen
Movie 1981
Antoine Bérangère
Movie 2007
Jean Rastaud
Movie 1973
Robert Prat
Movie 2022
Serge Belaïeff
Movie 1970
Ralph
Movie 1971
Boris Volkoff
Movie 1997
René Brunel
Movie 1956
Self
Movie 2011
Peter Kuerten
Movie 1965
Renaud Sarti
Movie 1962
Robert
Movie 1989
Carnot
Movie 1966
Lui-même
Movie 2021
(uncredited)
Movie 1956
Movie 2022
Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
Movie 2004
Marcel
Movie 1965
Robert Hossein
Movie 1986
Pierre Menda
Movie 1959
Movie 1948
Guest in white (uncredited)
Movie 1948
A student from the Simon course
Movie 1948
Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Robert Herbin
Movie 1962
Edouard, le fou
Movie 1962
L'inspecteur de police
Movie 1961
Pierre Massa
Movie 1964
Franz
Movie 1964
Erwin Rommel
Movie 1969
Louis Brady
Movie 1968
Judge Bocchi
Movie 1999
Kaminsky
Movie 1975
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1992
Arnaud
Movie 1974
Prince Nayam
Movie 1965
Daniel Boisset
Movie 1963
Self
Movie 2011
Enrico Fontana
Movie 1968
Self
Movie 2014
Dillinger
Movie 1970
Marcel Point-Bleu
Movie 1959
Perez
Movie 1961
Dr. Saadi
Movie 1968
Fred
Movie 1955
Georges Lagrange
Movie 1959
Inspektor Corby
Movie 1963
Captain Alcibiade
Movie 1966
Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
Movie 1961
Jean Carouse
Movie 1972
Pierre Fresse
Movie 1973
Dupont
Movie 1965
Pierre Rossi
Movie 1959
Leonida Montanari
Movie 1969
Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
Movie 1969
Le Caïd
Movie 1970
Lui
Movie 1959
Him
Movie 1967
Julien
Movie 1969
Jess Rooland
Movie 1960
Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
Movie 1966
SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
Movie 1963
Serge Sukhotin
Movie 1967
Un homme a la soupe populaire
Movie 2009
Martin von Klaus
Movie 1969
Raven
Movie 1957
Goliath customer (uncredited)
Movie 1987
Alex
Movie 1986
Le commissaire principal Le Goff
Movie 1966
Man in the movie
Movie 1969
Movie 1964
Movie 1965
Movie 1972
Self
Movie 2008
Tian
Movie 1969
Dr. Sinn
Movie 1964
Roger Valber
Movie 1967
Voce narrante
Movie 2011
Self
Movie 2006
Savary
Movie 1961
Samuel
Movie 1963
Black Bird
Movie 1971
Paul Haslans
Movie 1994
Peter Quint
Movie 1974
Movie 1959
Christian
Movie 1969
Self
Movie 2009
Ed Dawson
Movie 1960
Créon
Movie 2003
Metteur en scène de théâtre
Movie 1979
Maurice Ménard
Movie 1971
Movie 1958
Philippe-Auguste
Movie 1988
Self
Movie 2016
Maître Bianchini
Movie 1967
Le grand-père d'Angeli
Movie 2020
Sforzi
Movie 1957
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Movie 2019
Manuel Carreras
Movie 1982
Chemise Rose
Movie 1954
Jo
Movie 1955
Self
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1972
Joseph Beaucis
Tv 1990
Simon
Tv 2006
Self
Tv 1974
Self - Main Guest
Tv 1972
Self
Tv 1982
Self
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1998
self
Tv 1990
Self
Tv 1971
Self
Tv 1972
self
Tv 1987
Self
Tv 1954
