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Roland Topor

Actor / Screenwriter / Writer / Novelist / Playwright / Scenographer / Theatre Director / Film Director / Illustrator / Poet | * 01/07/1938 († 59, 04/16/1997) | Paris (France)
Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo. ()

Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. He gained notoriety as one of the home cartoonists of the subversive French magazine Hara-Kiri, renamed later Charlie-Hebdo. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | Animation

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When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread. ...

The Hamburg Syndrome

Certification unknown

1979 | 2.9/5 | 1h 57min
Horror, Science Fiction
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A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ...

The Tenant

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1976 | 3.8/5 | 2h 5min
Thriller, Horror
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Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracu ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre

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1979 | 3.7/5 | 1h 47min
Drama, Horror
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On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those wh ...

Fantastic Planet

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1973 | 3.8/5 | 1h 12min
Animation, Science Fiction
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Awards & Nominations for Roland Topor

Prix des Deux Magots Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Nagroda Imienia Wilhelma Lotha
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Movies with Roland Topor as Actor(18)

2023 Destins parallèles
as Self (archive footage)2015 Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
as himself2010 Fantastic Laloux
as Self (Voice)2004 Topor and Me
as Le médecin1986 The Satin Spider
as Biche1984 Swann in Love
as The murderous fencer1981 Celles qu'on n'a pas eues
as himself1979 The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Il boss1979 Ratataplan
as Renfield1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Le pochard1975 The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
as himself1974 Italiques: Roland Topor
as Homme dans le métro1974 Threshold of the Void
as Homme dans le métro (uncredited)1974 Threshold of the Void
1974 Sweet Movie
as himself1972 Cartoon circus
as Un émissaire du prince1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as himself1965 He! Viva Dada

TV Shows/Series with Roland Topor as Actor(3)

as himself1987 Nulle part ailleurs
as himself1975 Apostrophes
as himself1972 Midi trente

Movies with Roland Topor as Crew(16)

Writing/Original Story2019 Portrait of Suzanne
Writing/Author2005 L'Hiver sous la table
Writing/Story1990 The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World
Writing/Writer1989 Marquis
Writing/Writer1986 The King's Cake
Writing/Writer1979 The Hamburg Syndrome
Writing/Novel1976 The Tenant
Writing/Writer1975 The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
Writing/Adaptation1973 Fantastic Planet
Writing/Dialogue1973 Fantastic Planet
Writing/Writer1972 The Troubles of Alfred
Art/Draughtsman1966 The Snails
Writing/Writer1966 The Snails
Writing/Writer1965 He! Viva Dada
Art/Draughtsman1964 Dead Times
Writing/Writer1964 Dead Times

TV Shows/Series with Roland Topor as Crew(4)

Writing/Writer1988 Palace
Writing/Characters1983 Telecat
Writing/Writer1983 Telecat
Creator/Creator1983 Telecat

Full Name: Roland Topor
Citizenship: France
Born: Friday, 01/07 1938 (January) in Paris (France)
Died: Wednesday, 04/16 1997 (April) in Paris (aged: 59)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: French (FR, native language)
Educated at: Beaux-Arts de Paris
Member of: College of 'Pataphysics
Siblings: Hélène d'Almeida-Topor
Father: Abram Topor
Roland Topor frequently works together with these people:
René Laloux (12x, Crew)
Jean Yanne (8x, Actor)
Pierre Arditi (7x, Actor)
Roger Hanin (7x, Actor)
Werner Herzog (6x, Crew)
Pierre Mondy (6x, Actor)
André Valio-Cavaglione (6x, Crew)
Daniel Prévost (5x, Actor)
Gérard Lanvin (4x, Actor)
André Ruellan (4x, Crew)
Fernando Arrabal (4x, Actor)
Florence Dauman (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:349175, Added: 08/14/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024