Robert Hossein
French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin (1927-2020)
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French cinema's quiet fixture across six decades — the face in a dozen genres people half-remember: the vengeful gunslinger in his own Spaghetti Western, the priest who chose Marx over Rome, Angélique's husband in those bodice-rippers your mother watched.
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Robert Hossein was born 30 December 1927 and spent most of his life moving between the camera and the director's chair. He played opposite Michèle Mercier in the Angélique films, directed and starred as a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses, and took the role of a Catholic priest who falls for Claude Jade and turns communist in Forbidden Priests. On screen he appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres, Venus Beauty Institute. Behind it he directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables. He died 31 December 2020, the day after his 93rd birthday.
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- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Commander of the National Order of Merit
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