Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein

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 psychological set-up of the scene. The mechanisms of guilt and the way it destroys relationships is another recurring theme, presumably influenced by Hossein's lifelong interest in the works of Dostoyevski. Although Hossein had some modest international successes with films like Toi, le venin and Le vampire de Dusseldorf, he was much singled out for scorching criticism by the critics and followers of the New Wave for the unashamedly melodramatic frameworks of his films. The fact that he was essentially an auteur director with a consistent set of themes and an extraordinary mastery of original and unusual approaches to staging his stories, was never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama J'ai tué Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Hossein virtually ended his film directing career in 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and subsequently returning to film directing only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see. He is the son of André Hossein a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (he has two sons with her, Pierre and Igor), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Nicholas). He is currently married to actress Candice Patou, with whom he has one son, Julien. According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Hossein experienced a conversion to Catholicism in 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano in Lombardo Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hossein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1927-12-30
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Also Known As: Abraham Hosseinoff, Робер Оссейн

Movies List of Robert Hossein

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Rififi

1955 Movie
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The Professional

1981 Movie
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Trivial

2007 Movie
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Prêtres interdits

1973 Movie
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Versatile Lovers

1970 Movie
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The Burglars

1971 Movie
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The Wax Mask

1997 Movie
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Bolero: Dance of Life

1981 Movie
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Crime and Punishment

1956 Movie
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Untamable Angelique

1967 Movie
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Angelique

1964 Movie
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Love on a Pillow

1962 Movie
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Children of Chaos

1989 Movie
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Long March

1966 Movie
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San Antonio

2004 Movie
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God's Thunder

1965 Movie
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Blonde in a White Car

1959 Movie
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Sextette

1948 Movie
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The Devil Who Limped

1948 Movie
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In the Eyes of Memory

1948 Movie
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Les Miserables

1995 Movie
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Maya

1949 Movie
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Paris Pick-Up

1962 Movie
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Hitch-Hike

1962 Movie
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The Game of Truth

1961 Movie
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Death of a Killer

1964 Movie
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Marked Eyes

1964 Movie
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A Little Virtuous

1968 Movie
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Scandalous Crimes

1999 Movie
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The Phoney

1975 Movie
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The Protector

1974 Movie
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Stranger in the House

1992 Movie
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Marco the Magnificent

1965 Movie
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Highway Pick-Up

1963 Movie
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Tender Moment

1968 Movie
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Time of the Wolves

1970 Movie
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Riff Raff Girls

1959 Movie
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The Taste of Violence

1961 Movie
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The Wicked Go to Hell

1955 Movie
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The Verdict

1959 Movie
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Enough Rope

1963 Movie
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Madame

1961 Movie
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A Murder Is a Murder

1972 Movie
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The Dirty Game

1965 Movie
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The Road to Shame

1959 Movie
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The Conspirators

1969 Movie
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Desert Assault

1969 Movie
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Falling Point

1970 Movie
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Double Agents

1959 Movie
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La Musica

1967 Movie
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The Scarlet Lady

1969 Movie
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The Wretches

1960 Movie
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The Other Truth

1966 Movie
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Vice and Virtue

1963 Movie
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I Killed Rasputin

1967 Movie
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A Man and His Dog

2009 Movie
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Misdeal

1969 Movie
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Young Girls Beware

1957 Movie
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Levy & Goliath

1987 Movie
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Le Caviar rouge

1986 Movie
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Surprise Party

1983 Movie
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Brigade Anti Gangs

1966 Movie
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Life Love Death

1969 Movie
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Why Paris?

1964 Movie
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Hellé

1972 Movie
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Crime Thief

1969 Movie
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Lamiel

1967 Movie
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The Menace

1961 Movie
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Of Flesh and Blood

1963 Movie
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Judge Roy Bean

1971 Movie
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L'Affaire

1994 Movie
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Le tour d'écrou

1974 Movie
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Stars Meet in Moscow

1959 Movie
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Crime Thief

1969 Movie
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Take Me As I Am

1960 Movie
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Antigone

2003 Movie
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Démons de midi

1979 Movie
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The Lion's Share

1971 Movie
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Provisional Liberty

1958 Movie
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Belmondo by Belmondo

2016 Movie
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Le Fruit de l'espoir

2020 Movie
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No Sun in Venice

1957 Movie
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Aznavour by Charles

2019 Movie
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The Big Pardon

1982 Movie
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Quai des blondes

1954 Movie
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Série noire

1955 Movie