From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Hossein (born as Hosseinhof December 30, 1927 in Paris) is 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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Series | Petits Meurtres en famille | Simon | 2006-11-14 |
Series | Le Juge | Roger Marino | 2005-05-23 |
Movie | San Antonio | Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister | 2004-07-21 |
Movie | Antigone | Créon | 2003-05-05 |
Movie | Venus Beauty Institute | L'aviateur | 1999-02-03 |
Movie | Scandalous Crimes | Judge Bocchi | 1999-02-26 |
Movie | The Wax Mask | Boris Volkoff | 1997-04-04 |
Movie | Les Miserables | Le maître de cérémonie | 1995-03-22 |
Movie | L'Affaire | Paul Haslans | 1994-04-13 |
Movie | Stranger in the House | Narrator (voice) | 1992-10-03 |
Series | Le Gorille | Joseph Beaucis | 1990-04-29 |
Movie | Children of Chaos | Robert | 1989-11-22 |
Movie | La croisade des enfants | Philippe-Auguste | 1988-04-07 |
Movie | Levy & Goliath | Client de Goliath (uncredited) | 1987-01-27 |
Movie | Le Caviar rouge | Alex | 1986-01-08 |
Movie | A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Robert Hossein | 1986-05-13 |
Movie | Surprise Party | André Auerbach | 1983-04-20 |
Movie | The Big Pardon | Manuel Carreras | 1982-01-27 |
Movie | Bolero: Dance of Life | Simon Meyer / Robert Prat | 1981-05-27 |
Movie | The Professional | Commissaire Rosen | 1981-10-21 |
Movie | Démons de midi | Metteur en scène de théâtre | 1979-11-28 |
Movie | The Phoney | Kaminsky | 1975-10-14 |
Movie | Le tour d'écrou | Peter Quint | 1974-02-25 |
Movie | The Protector | Arnaud | 1974-06-05 |
Movie | Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman | Louis Prévost | 1973-02-22 |
Movie | Prêtres interdits | Jean Rastaud | 1973-11-22 |
Movie | A Police Officer Without Importance | Pierre Fresse | 1973-04-12 |
Movie | Hellé | 1972-05-02 | |
Movie | A Murder Is a Murder | Jean Carouse | 1972-08-23 |
Movie | The Lion's Share | Maurice Ménard | 1971-09-08 |
Movie | Judge Roy Bean | Black Bird | 1971-03-03 |
Movie | The Burglars | Ralph | 1971-10-27 |
Movie | Versatile Lovers | Serge Belaïeff | 1970-05-06 |
Movie | Time of the Wolves | Dillinger | 1970-01-21 |
Movie | Falling Point | Le Caïd | 1970-09-11 |
Movie | Life Love Death | The man in the movie | 1969-01-29 |
Movie | The Battle of El Alamein | Erwin Rommel | 1969-01-01 |
Movie | Misdeal | Martin von Klaus | 1969-04-30 |
Movie | Cemetery Without Crosses | Manuel | 1969-01-25 |
Movie | The Scarlet Lady | Julien | 1969-05-14 |
Movie | The Conspirators | Leonida Montanari | 1969-10-24 |
Movie | Desert Assault | Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français) | 1969-07-30 |
Movie | Crime Thief | Christian | 1969-05-22 |
Movie | A Little Virtuous | Louis Brady | 1968-02-21 |
Movie | OSS 117 Murder for Sale | Dr. Saadi | 1968-07-27 |
Movie | Angelique and the Sultan | Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator" | 1968-03-13 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time in the West | Member of Frank's Gang in Flashback (uncredited) | 1968-12-21 |
Movie | Tender Moment | Enrico Fontana | 1968-12-20 |
Movie | Untamable Angelique | Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator" | 1967-01-01 |
Movie | La Musica | Him | 1967-03-03 |
Movie | I Killed Rasputin | Serge Sukhotin | 1967-05-03 |
Movie | Lamiel | Roger Valber | 1967-08-30 |
Movie | The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia | Maître Bianchini | 1967-05-20 |
Movie | Mademoiselle de Maupin | Capitaine Alcibiade | 1966-01-13 |
Movie | Angelique and the King | Jeoffrey de Peyrac | 1966-01-31 |
Movie | Brigade Anti Gangs | Le commissaire principal Le Goff | 1966-08-18 |
Movie | The Other Truth | Pierre Montaud, the Advocate | 1966-04-19 |
Movie | Long March | Carnot | 1966-05-31 |
Movie | The Dirty Game | Dupont | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | Le commissaire mène l’enquête | 1965-07-28 | |
Movie | The Vampire of Dusseldorf | Peter Kuerten | 1965-04-07 |
Movie | Marco the Magnificent | Prince Nayam | 1965-08-06 |
Movie | God's Thunder | Marcel | 1965-09-08 |
Movie | OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok | Dr. Sinn | 1964-06-12 |
Movie | Death of a Killer | Pierre Massa | 1964-04-01 |
Movie | Marked Eyes | Franz | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | Angelique | Jeoffrey de Peyrac | 1964-12-08 |
Movie | Vice and Virtue | SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf | 1963-03-01 |
Movie | Enough Rope | Inspektor Corby | 1963-01-11 |
Movie | Of Flesh and Blood | Samuel | 1963-07-08 |
Movie | Highway Pick-Up | Daniel Boisset | 1963-11-13 |
Movie | Hitch-Hike | Edouard, le fou | 1962-03-16 |
Movie | Paris Pick-Up | Robert Herbin | 1962-05-04 |
Movie | Love on a Pillow | Renaud Sarti | 1962-09-05 |
Movie | The Taste of Violence | Perez | 1961-08-10 |
Movie | The Game of Truth | L'inspecteur de police | 1961-11-26 |
Movie | Madame | Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre | 1961-12-21 |
Movie | Take Me As I Am | Ed Dawson | 1960-01-29 |
Movie | The Wretches | Jess Rooland | 1960-05-08 |
Movie | Blonde in a White Car | Pierre Menda | 1959-03-27 |
Movie | Riff Raff Girls | Marcel Point-Bleu | 1959-05-20 |
Movie | The Road to Shame | Pierre Rossi | 1959-04-30 |
Movie | The Verdict | Georges Lagrange | 1959-10-02 |
Movie | Double Agents | Lui | 1959-09-09 |
Movie | Stars Meet in Moscow | 1959-08-30 | |
Movie | Provisional Liberty | 1958-05-16 | |
Movie | Young Girls Beware | Raven | 1957-07-04 |
Movie | No Sun in Venice | Sforzi | 1957-05-31 |
Series | Cinépanorama | 1956-02-04 | |
Movie | Forgive Our Trespasses | (uncredited) | 1956-08-01 |
Movie | Crime and Punishment | René Brunel | 1956-12-04 |
Movie | Rififi | Rémi Grutter | 1955-04-13 |
Movie | Série noire | Jo | 1955-03-04 |
Movie | The Wicked Go to Hell | Fred | 1955-12-07 |
Movie | Maya | Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited) | 1949-12-09 |
Movie | The Devil Who Limped | Un invité en blanc (non crédité) | 1948-07-11 |
Movie | In the Eyes of Memory | A student from the Simon course | 1948-11-24 |
Movie | Sextette | 1948-09-17 |