Robert Hossein
French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin
- Lived
- 1927–2020
- Country
- France
Updated September 2026
About Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein 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, and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Forbidden Priests.
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