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Robert Hossein | |
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Born | Paris, France | 30 December 1927
Died | 31 December 2020 Essey-lès-Nancy, France | (aged 93)
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
Years active | 1948–2019 |
Spouses | Caroline Eliacheff
(m. 1962; div. 1964)Candice Patou
(m. 1976) |
Children | 4 |
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Forbidden Priests.