Robert Hossein

Biography

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 psychologica…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Rififi (1955) — Rémi Grutter
2. The Professional (1981) — Commissaire Rosen
3. Angelique (1964) — Jeoffrey de Peyrac
4. Angelique and the King (1966) — Jeoffrey de Peyrac
5. Venus Beauty Institute (1999) — L'aviateur
6. The Burglars (1971) — Ralph
7. Angelique and the Sultan (1968) — Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
8. Untamable Angelique (1967) — Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
9. Bolero (1981) — Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
10. Les Miserables (1995) — Le maître de cérémonie
11. The Big Pardon (1982) — Manuel Carreras
12. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) — Manuel
13. The Conspirators (1969) — Leonida Montanari
14. The Wax Mask (1997) — Boris Volkoff
15. OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok (1964) — Dr. Sinn
16. The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009) — Simon
17. San Antonio (2004) — Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
18. Love on a Pillow (1962) — Renaud Sarti
19. Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) — Louis Prévost
20. God's Thunder (1965) — Marcel
21. A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986) — Robert Hossein
22. Stranger in the House (1992) — Narrator (voice)
23. Trivial (2007) — Antoine Bérangère
24. The Battle of El Alamein (1969) — Erwin Rommel
25. A Man and His Dog (2009) — Un homme a la soupe populaire
26. Love Is Better Than Life (2022) — Robert Prat
27. Highway Pick-Up (1963) — Daniel Boisset
28. The Vampire of Dusseldorf (1965) — Peter Kuerten
29. OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968) — Dr. Saadi
30. A Murder Is a Murder (1972) — Jean Carouse
31. Madame (1961) — Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
32. Levy & Goliath (1987) — Goliath customer (uncredited)
33. Aznavour by Charles (2019) — Self - Actor (archive footage)
34. Crime and Punishment (1956) — René Brunel
35. Vice and Virtue (1963) — SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
36. The Devil Who Limped (1948) — Guest in white (uncredited)
37. The Game of Truth (1961) — L'inspecteur de police
38. Marked Eyes (1964) — Franz
39. Maya (1949) — Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
40. The Road to Shame (1959) — Pierre Rossi

Directed

1. Les Misérables (1982) — Director
2. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) — Director
3. The Vampire of Dusseldorf (1965) — Director
4. The Game of Truth (1961) — Director
5. Marked Eyes (1964) — Director
6. Falling Point (1970) — Director
7. Blonde in a White Car (1959) — Director
8. The Taste of Violence (1961) — Director
9. The Wicked Go to Hell (1955) — Director
10. The Wretches (1960) — Director
11. Double Agents (1959) — Director
12. Death of a Killer (1964) — Director
13. I Killed Rasputin (1967) — Director
14. Forgive Our Trespasses (1956) — Director
15. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) — Director
16. Le Caviar rouge (1986) — Director