Robert Hossein
A famous leading man in French cinema known for playing world-weary villains, as in the crime classic "Rififi," Robert Hossein is also an accomplished director, having helmed a 1982 version of "Les Misérables." Hossein studied acting at René Simon's school and cut his teeth as an actor and director at the famed Theatre Grand Guignol. After a few screen appearances, Hossein truly arrived on the European cinema scene with the role of Remi Grutter in Jules Dassin's noir thriller "Rififi." That same year, Hossein launched his directing career with the sexy drama "The Wicked Go to Hell," while he continued to appear onscreen in dozens of films in the '60s. Hossein often played the part of the romantic leading man opposite some of Europe's top screen sirens, including Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, and, in the 1973 romantic melodrama "Forbidden Priests," Claude Jade. His steady writing and directing career hit its high water mark in 1982 with his adaptation of Victor Hugo's tragedy "Les Misérables," which won Hossein a Cesar award for adapted screenplay; this was the highest honor his off-camera work received, as his auteur sensibilities were often viewed as too idiosyncratic. In 1981 he appeared in one of the biggest films of his career, playing the dual role of Simon Meyer and Robert Prat in Claude Lelouch's Cannes-winning epic musical " Les Uns et les Autres." Hossein's work became more sporadic after this, with only occasional roles lining his resume.
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Robert Hossein
Filmography
Movies
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Trivial | Antoine Bérangère (Character) | - | 2007 |
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San Antonio | Le ministre de L'intérieur (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gialloparma | Judge Bocchi (Character) | - | 1999 |
59% |
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Venus Beauty Institute | L'aviateur (Character) | $416.5K | 1999 |
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Wax Mask | Boris Volkoff (Character) | - | 1997 |
81% |
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Les misérables | Le maître de cérémonie (Character) | $365.2K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Card | Paul Haslans (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of Chaos | Robert (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Levy and Goliath | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
29% |
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Robert Hossein (Character) | $199.3K | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Caviar Rouge |
Alex (Character), Director |
$2.1K | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les Misérables |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1982 |
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Le Professionnel | Le commissaire Rosen (Character) | - | 1981 |
60% |
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Bolero |
Simon Meyer/ |
- | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Démons de midi | Le metteur en scène de théâtre (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Ms. Don Juan | Louis Prévost (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desert Battle | Captain Curd Heinz (Character) | - | 1972 |
33% |
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The Burglars | Ralph (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heist | Robert dit Dillinger (Character) | - | 1970 |
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Cemetery Without Crosses |
Manuel (Character), Director |
- | 1969 |
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The Battle of El Alamein | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les belles au bois dormantes | Unknown (Character) | - | 1969 |
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Nell'anno del signore | Leonida Montanari (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le voleur de crimes | Unknown (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Scarlet Woman | Julien (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Little Virtuous | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angélique and the Sultan | Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Friday Man | Le commissaire principal Le Goff (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | OSS 117 Murder for Sale | Unknown (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tender Moment | Enrico Fontana (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Killed Rasputin |
Serge Sukhotin (Character), Director |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madamigella di Maupin | Unknown (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Untamable Angelique | Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Truth | Pierre Montaud (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marco the Magnificent | Prince Nayam (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brigade antigangs | Le commissaire principal Le Goff (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Killer |
Peter Kuerten (Character), Director |
- | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God's Thunder | Unknown (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Panic in Bangkok | Dr. Sinn (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Angélique | Jeoffrey de Peyrac (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marked Eyes |
Franz (Character), Director |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vice and Virtue | SS Colonel Erik Schörndorf (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Agents |
Lui (Character), Director |
- | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enough Rope | Unknown (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitch-Hike | Le fou (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Highway Pickup | Daniel Boisett (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death of a Killer |
Pierre Massa (Character), Director |
- | 1963 |
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Love on a Pillow | Renaud Sarti (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vice and Virtue | SS Colonel Erik Schörndorf (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Warrior's Rest | Renaud Sarti (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paris Pick-Up | Robert Herbin (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of Flesh and Blood | Samuel (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Taste of Violence |
Perez (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madame | Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nude in a White Car |
Pierre Menda (Character), Director |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wretches |
Jess Rooland (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riff Raff Girls | Marcel Point-Bleu (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Road to Shame | Pierre Rossi (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Is Not for Sleep |
Pierre Menda, l'homme en errance (Character), Director, Writer |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crime and Punishment | René Brunel (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Sun in Venice | Unknown (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wicked Go to Hell |
Fred (Character), Director |
- | 1956 |
93% |
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Rififi | Remi Grutter (Character) | $57.2K | 1955 |