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Roland Topor

Highest Rated: 94% Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Lowest Rated: 70% Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Birthday: Jan 7, 1938

Birthplace: Paris, France

An artist of many talents, Frenchman Roland Topor painted, wrote both prose and song lyrics and crafted innovative animated films. In the 1970s, he won an international audience thanks to his big-screen collaborations with the likes of lauded filmmakers Roman Polanski and Werner Herzog. After a harrowing youth--he was born to Jewish parents during World War II, and his family was forced to flee to southeastern France to evade the Nazis--Topor returned to his native Paris, where in 1962 he co-founded an influential arts collective known as the Panic Movement. Although he also began making animated short films around this time, Topor devoted most of his energy to the completion of "The Tenant," a semi-autobiographical novel about a Jewish man who fears he's a pawn in a lethal game. Within a few years, Topor had made his name on the global film circuit--first as the production designer of the 1973 animated science-fiction movie "Fantastic Planet," and three years later when "The Tenant" was adapted by Polanski as the director's follow-up to "Chinatown." Before the decade was out, Topor landed a key role in Herzog's gothic fright-fest "Nosferatu the Vampyre," and he would later co-write a script for a 1989 film based on the Marquis de Sade.

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Highest rated movies

94% 83% Nosferatu the Vampyre
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70% 58% Three Lives and Only One Death
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Dead Times
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Topor and Me
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57% Rataplan
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Les escargots
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The King's Cake
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50% The Troubles of Alfred
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The Hamburg Syndrome
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Topor and Me Unknown (Character) - 2004
70% 58% Three Lives and Only One Death Bum 2 (Character) $11.4K 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The King's Cake Screenwriter - 1985
94% 83% Nosferatu the Vampyre Renfield (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 57% Rataplan The Boss (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hamburg Syndrome Screenwriter - 1979
No Score Yet 50% The Troubles of Alfred Screenwriter - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Les escargots Writer - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead Times Writer - 1965