Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein
30.12.1927 (96 gadi) (Paris, France)
Robert Hossein (born Abraham Hosseinoff; 30 December 1927) is a French film actor, director, and writer of Azeri and Jewish origin. 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 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. Robert Hossein's father was an Iranian music composer named André Hossein.