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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/2022
Love Is Better Than Life
Character:Robert Prat
Release Date:19/01/2022
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/01/2021
Noni : Le Fruit de l'espoir
Character:Le grand-père d'Angeli
Release Date:05/02/2020
Aznavour by Charles
Character:Self - Actor (archive footage)
Release Date:02/10/2019
Belmondo by Belmondo
Character:Self
Release Date:05/05/2016
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2014
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/2011
Une femme nommée Marie
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:13/08/2011
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Character:Self
Release Date:18/05/2011
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Character:Self
Release Date:05/05/2009
A Man and His Dog
Character:Un homme a la soupe populaire
Release Date:14/01/2009
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
Character:Self
Release Date:21/09/2008
Trivial
Character:Antoine Bérangère
Release Date:23/05/2007
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Character:Self
Release Date:23/04/2006
San Antonio
Character:Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
Release Date:21/07/2004
Antigone
Character:Créon
Release Date:05/05/2003
Scandalous Crimes
Character:Judge Bocchi
Release Date:26/02/1999
Venus Beauty Institute
Character:L'aviateur
Release Date:03/02/1999
The Wax Mask
Character:Boris Volkoff
Release Date:04/04/1997
Les Miserables
Character:Le maître de cérémonie
Release Date:22/03/1995
L'Affaire
Character:Paul Haslans
Release Date:13/04/1994
Stranger in the House
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:03/10/1992
Children of Chaos
Character:Robert
Release Date:22/11/1989
La croisade des enfants
Character:Philippe-Auguste
Release Date:07/04/1988
Levy & Goliath
Character:Goliath customer (uncredited)
Release Date:27/01/1987
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Character:Robert Hossein
Release Date:13/05/1986
Le Caviar rouge
Character:Alex
Release Date:08/01/1986
Surprise Party
Character:André Auerbach
Release Date:20/04/1983
The Big Pardon
Character:Manuel Carreras
Release Date:27/01/1982
The Professional
Character:Commissaire Rosen
Release Date:21/10/1981
Bolero
Character:Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Release Date:27/05/1981
Démons de midi
Character:Metteur en scène de théâtre
Release Date:28/11/1979
The Phoney
Character:Kaminsky
Release Date:14/10/1975
The Protector
Character:Arnaud
Release Date:05/06/1974
Le Tour d'Écrou
Character:Peter Quint
Release Date:25/02/1974
Prêtres interdits
Character:Jean Rastaud
Release Date:22/11/1973
A Police Officer Without Importance
Character:Pierre Fresse
Release Date:12/04/1973
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Character:Louis Prévost
Release Date:22/02/1973
A Murder Is a Murder
Character:Jean Carouse
Release Date:23/08/1972
Hellé
Character:Kleber
Release Date:02/05/1972
The Burglars
Character:Ralph
Release Date:27/10/1971
The Lion's Share
Character:Maurice Ménard
Release Date:08/09/1971
Judge Roy Bean
Character:Black Bird
Release Date:03/03/1971
Falling Point
Character:Le Caïd
Release Date:11/09/1970
Versatile Lovers
Character:Serge Belaïeff
Release Date:06/05/1970
Time of the Wolves
Character:Dillinger
Release Date:21/01/1970
The Conspirators
Character:Leonida Montanari
Release Date:24/10/1969
Desert Assault
Character:Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
Release Date:30/07/1969
Crime Thief
Character:Tian
Release Date:22/05/1969
The Scarlet Lady
Character:Julien
Release Date:14/05/1969
Misdeal
Character:Martin von Klaus
Release Date:30/04/1969
Life Love Death
Character:Man in the movie
Release Date:29/01/1969
Cemetery Without Crosses
Character:Manuel
Release Date:25/01/1969
The Battle of El Alamein
Character:Erwin Rommel
Release Date:01/01/1969
Tender Moment
Character:Enrico Fontana
Release Date:20/12/1968
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
Character:Dr. Saadi
Release Date:27/07/1968
Angelique and the Sultan
Character:Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
Release Date:13/03/1968
A Little Virtuous
Character:Louis Brady
Release Date:21/02/1968
Lamiel
Character:Roger Valber
Release Date:30/08/1967
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Character:Maître Bianchini
Release Date:20/05/1967
I Killed Rasputin
Character:Serge Sukhotin
Release Date:03/05/1967
La Musica
Character:Him
Release Date:03/03/1967
Untamable Angelique
Character:Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
Release Date:01/01/1967
Brigade Anti Gangs
Character:Chief Commissioner Le Goff
Release Date:18/08/1966
Long March
Character:Carnot
Release Date:31/05/1966
The Other Truth
Character:Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
Release Date:19/04/1966
Angelique and the King
Character:Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Release Date:31/01/1966
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Character:Captain Alcibiade
Release Date:13/01/1966
God's Thunder
Character:Marcel
Release Date:08/09/1965
Marco the Magnificent
Character:Prince Nayam
Release Date:06/08/1965
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Character:The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
Release Date:28/07/1965
The Dirty Game
Character:Dupont
Release Date:23/06/1965
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Character:Peter Kuerten
Release Date:07/04/1965
Angelique
Character:Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Release Date:08/12/1964
Marked Eyes
Character:Franz
Release Date:02/09/1964
Why Paris?
Character:
Release Date:24/06/1964
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
Character:Dr. Sinn
Release Date:12/06/1964
Death of a Killer
Character:Pierre Massa
Release Date:01/04/1964
Highway Pick-Up
Character:Daniel Boisset
Release Date:13/11/1963
Of Flesh and Blood
Character:Samuel
Release Date:08/07/1963
Vice and Virtue
Character:SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
Release Date:01/03/1963
Enough Rope
Character:Inspektor Corby
Release Date:11/01/1963
Love on a Pillow
Character:Renaud Sarti
Release Date:05/09/1962
Paris Pick-Up
Character:Robert Herbin
Release Date:04/05/1962
Hitch-Hike
Character:Edouard, le fou
Release Date:16/03/1962
Madame
Character:Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
Release Date:21/12/1961
The Game of Truth
Character:L'inspecteur de police
Release Date:26/11/1961
The Taste of Violence
Character:Perez
Release Date:10/08/1961
The Menace
Character:Savary
Release Date:01/03/1961
The Wretches
Character:Jess Rooland
Release Date:08/05/1960
Take Me As I Am
Character:Ed Dawson
Release Date:29/01/1960
The Verdict
Character:Georges Lagrange
Release Date:02/10/1959
Double Agents
Character:Lui
Release Date:09/09/1959
Stars Meet in Moscow
Character:Self
Release Date:30/08/1959
Riff Raff Girls
Character:Marcel Point-Bleu
Release Date:20/05/1959
The Road to Shame
Character:Pierre Rossi
Release Date:30/04/1959
Blonde in a White Car
Character:Pierre Menda
Release Date:27/03/1959
Provisional Liberty
Character:Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
Release Date:16/05/1958
Young Girls Beware
Character:Raven
Release Date:04/07/1957
No Sun in Venice
Character:Sforzi
Release Date:31/05/1957
Crime and Punishment
Character:René Brunel
Release Date:04/12/1956
Forgive Our Trespasses
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:01/08/1956
The Wicked Go to Hell
Character:Fred
Release Date:07/12/1955
Rififi
Character:Rémi Grutter
Release Date:13/04/1955
Série noire
Character:Jo
Release Date:04/03/1955
Quai des blondes
Character:Chemise Rose
Release Date:07/04/1954
Maya
Character:Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
Release Date:09/12/1949
In the Eyes of Memory
Character:A student from the Simon course
Release Date:24/11/1948
Sextette
Character:
Release Date:17/09/1948
The Devil Who Limped
Character:Guest in white (uncredited)
Release Date:11/07/1948
Television Appearances
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character:Simon
Petits Meurtres en famille
Character:Simon
Le Juge
Character:Roger Marino
Vivement dimanche
Character:Self
Stars 90
Character:Self
Le Gorille
Character:Joseph Beaucis
Téléthon
Character:Self
Sacrée Soirée
Character:Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Character:Self
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Apostrophes
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
Midi trente
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self - Main Guest
Samedi soir
Character:Self
Cinépanorama
Character:Self
Reflets de Cannes
Character:Self
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