- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRobert Hosseinoff
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (1955)), he has been generally cast as jaded villains. Making his movie directorial debut with The Wicked Go to Hell (1955) The Wicked Go to Hell (1955)), Hossein went on to call the shots on such Film Noir fare as Blonde in a White Car (1958) and J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967). In the 1960s, Robert Hossein appeared regularly as Jeoffrey de Peyrac in the soft-core Angélique films. He also worked as director.
As he was one of the most prominent leading men in French cinema, he was the screen partner of leading ladies like Brigitte Bardot, Michèle Mercier, Marina Vlady, Stéphane Audran, Claude Jade or the Italian beauty Sophia Loren, and more recently with Audrey Tautou in Venus Beauty Institute (1999).
- IMDb mini biography by: Al and Bron
- SpousesCandice Patou(June 28, 1976 - December 31, 2020) (1 child)Caroline Eliacheff(June 7, 1962 - December 16, 1964) (divorced, 1 child)Marina Vlady(December 23, 1955 - February 19, 1960) (divorced, 2 children)
- Parents
- Robert Hossein lived at 19, Avenue Paul Doumer. In Le Cercle Rouge, the gangster Corey lives at the same address.
- Son, Nicolas Hossein, with Caroline Eliacheff. He took his mother's name and became Nicolas Eliacheff, and rabbi in Strasbourg under the name of Aaron Eliacheff.
- Son of André Hossein, an Azeri composer, from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and Anna Mincovschi, a Jewish comedy actress, from Soroca, Bessarabia.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963
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