December 31, 2020
French theatre legend Robert Hossein dies aged 93
French actor and director Robert Hossein, famous for his mega-productions of
classics such as 'Les Miserables' and 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame', died
Thursday of Covid-19 at the age of 93.
Hossein died in hospital after suffering a "respiratory problem", his
wife Candice Patou said.
Born on 30 December, 1927 to an Iranian Zoroastrian composer father and a
Russian Orthodox mother, Hossein began acting in his teens.
He made his name in the 1960s as the smouldering count of Peyrac in the
Angélique series of baroque romances.
But he was also regularly cast by arthouse directors, including Roger Vadim,
who picked him to play the suicidal love interest of Brigitte Bardot in Love on
a Pillow in 1962.
In later years he threw his energy into huge stage productions aimed at luring
the general public into theatres.
"Theatre like you've never seen in the cinema," was how he billed his
lavish shows, which included an epic production of the gladiator tale Ben-Hur
at the Stade de France stadium.
"He was the prince of theatre for the masses," the former president
of the Cannes film festival, Gilles Jacob, wrote on Twitter.
HOSSEIN, Robert (Rustam Huseynov)
Born: 12/30/1927, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Died: 12/31/2020, Essey-lès-Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle France
Robert Hossein’s westerns – actor, director.
The Taste of Violence – 1960 (Perez) [director]
Cemetery Without Crosses – 1968 (Manuel) [director]
Judge Roy Bean – 1971 (Black Bird/’The Sicilian’)
Denn sie kennen kein erbarmen - Der Italowestern (TV) – 2005 [himself]
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