French actor and director Robert Hossein dies aged 93
Robert Hossein directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute.
FrenchFrench actor, director and filmmaker Robert Hossein dies on New Year’s Eve aged 93, leaving behind a legendary film, theatre and television career, reports Euro Weekly News.
An emblematic personality of French theatre and cinema of the 1960s, Robert Hossein most notably 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.
