Robert Hossein

About

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...

Known for

The Little Murders of Agatha ChristieSeries • 2009Once Upon a Time in the WestMovie • 1968The ProfessionalMovie • 1981AngeliqueMovie • 1964Angelique and the KingMovie • 1966RififiMovie • 1955Angelique and the SultanMovie • 1968Cemetery without CrossesMovie • 1969Untamable AngeliqueMovie • 1967Les MisérablesMovie • 1982BoleroMovie • 1981TrivialMovie • 2007The BurglarsMovie • 1971A Man and a Woman: 20 Years LaterMovie • 1986Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a WomanMovie • 1973Love on a PillowMovie • 1962Les MiserablesMovie • 1995God's ThunderMovie • 1965A Man and His DogMovie • 2009OSS 117 Murder for SaleMovie • 1968The Battle of El AlameinMovie • 1969The Vampire of DusseldorfMovie • 1965Shadow of EvilMovie • 1964Venus Beauty InstituteMovie • 1999