French actor and director
Robert Hossein (ANSA CINEMA SHEET)
, known for the role of the Earl of Peyrac in the film series 'Angelica',
has died at the age of 93
.
This was announced by his wife, actress Candice Patou, to France Presse, explaining that Hossein died "this morning in hospital after a respiratory crisis".
Born on 30 December 1927 to an Iranian composer and a Russian Orthodox, the actor, born Abraham Hosseinoff, grew up in poverty and decided after the war, at the age of 15, to devote himself to dramatic art.
Performer of musicals such as
'The miserable'
, '
A man named Jesus
' and
'Notre Dame de Paris',
Hossein became a sex symbol in the 1960s thanks to
role of Jeoffrey de Peyrac in the film 'Angelica, the marquise of the angels',
which gave him great notoriety.
In Reims he founded his "popular theater" and a school that launched Anémone and Isabelle Adjani.
In his long career in cinema, from 1948 to 2019, he starred for Roger Vadim alongside Brigitte Bardot in the films 'The rest of the warrior' (1962), 'Vice and virtue' (1963), Barbarella (1968).
In 1969 he participated in Luigi Magni's film 'In the year of the Lord'.
"He was an actor, author, director, the prince of popular theater, his successes are countless, he had a charming smile, a velvet look, a beautiful voice: so many qualities for a man who had the charm of Robert Hossein" , the historic president of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob, commented on Twitter.