French director and actor Robert Hossein died on New Year’s Eve after contracting covid-19, just hours after celebrating his 93rd birthday in the hospital.
Hossein is reported to have contracted the virus during a previous hospitalization.
Hossein left behind him a legendary film, theatre and television career.
During his decades-long career, he worked with such directors as Roger Vadim, Claude Lelouch and Tonie Marshall.
He was considered an emblematic personality of French theatre and cinema of the 1960s.
In 1981, he starred with Jean-Paul Belmondo in ‘Le Professionnel’, a French action thriller directed by Georges Lautner.
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The French actor directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute.
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His role of Jeoffrey de Peyrac, a character in the ‘Angelique’ series of historical romance films made in the 1960s, brought him a huge popularity.
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