Robert Hossein
French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin (1927-2020) · France · Actors · Died at 93
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Belmondo by BelmondoFilm2009
The Little Murders of Agatha ChristieSeries, Simon
A Man and His DogFilm, 2009Un homme a la soupe populaire2006Commander of the Legion of HonourAward
Petits Meurtres en familleSeries, 2006Simon2004
San AntonioFilm, Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister1998
Vivement dimancheSeries1995
Les MiserablesFilm, Le maître de cérémonie1994Commander of the National Order of MeritAward1990
Le GorilleSeries, Joseph Beaucis1987
Levy & GoliathFilm, Goliath customer (uncredited)1982
Champs-ElyséesSeries
Les MisérablesFilm, 1982Director, Writer1976Henry James StoriesSeries, Peter Quint1974
Spécial cinémaSeries1973
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a WomanFilm, Louis Prévost1972
Le Grand ÉchiquierSeries1971
The BurglarsFilm, Ralph1968
Angelique and the SultanFilm, Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"1965
God's ThunderFilm, Marcel1963
Highway Pick-UpFilm, Daniel Boisset1961
MadameFilm, Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre1956
CinépanoramaSeries1955
RififiFilm, Rémi Grutter1954
Reflets de CannesSeries1927Born30 December 1927Also in Deutsch
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Filmography 40
LLLove Is Better Than Life
ACAznavour by CharlesBBBelmondo by Belmondo
BIBelmondo, itinéraire...ADA Man and His Dog
TRTrivialSASan Antonio
VIVenus Beauty Institute
TMThe Wax MaskLMLes Miserables
SHStranger in the HouseLGLevy & Goliath
ALA Man and a Woman: 20 Years LaterLMLes Misérables
TPThe Big Pardon
TPThe Professional
BOBoleroDWDon Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
AMA Murder Is a MurderTBThe Burglars
CCCemetery without Crosses
TCThe Conspirators
TAThe Battle of El Alamein
OWOnce Upon a Time in the WestASAngelique and the Sultan
OSOSS 117 Murder for Sale
UAUntamable Angelique
AKAngelique and the KingGTGod's Thunder
MMMarco the Magnificent
TDThe Vampire of Dusseldorf
ANAngelique
SEShadow of EvilHUHighway Pick-Up
VVVice and Virtue
LPLove on a PillowMAMadame
TTThe Game of Truth
CPCrime and PunishmentRIRififi174 credits on file
Television 18
TCThe Little Murders of Agatha ChristiePFPetits Meurtres en famille
LJLe JugeVDVivement dimanche
STStars 90LGLe Gorille
SSSacrée soirée
NANulle part ailleurs
TÉTéléthonCEChamps-Elysées
APApostrophesSCSpécial cinémaLÉLe Grand Échiquier
MTMidi trenteCICinépanoramaRCReflets de CannesAwards
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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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