
Known for
Acting
Born
December 30, 1927
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
December 31, 2020 (aged 93)
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 trade...
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2022
2022
2022
as Robert Prat
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2020
as Le grand-père d'Angeli
2019
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2016
as Self
2014
2011
2011
as Narrator (voice), Stage Director
2011
as Self
2009
2009
as Un homme a la soupe populaire
2009
2009
2008
2007
as Antoine Bérangère
2006
2006
2005
2004
as Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
2003
as Créon, Art Direction
1999
as Judge Bocchi
1999
as L'aviateur