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