It is a monument of the theater which flies away. Thursday, December 31, 2020, the actor and director Robert hossein died at the age of ninety-three, as announced by his wife, Candice Patou, at theAFP. The day after his birthday, in the morning, the man succumbed to serious breathing problems while still in hospital. Robert Hossein was known for several big blockbuster films like Angelique Marquise des Anges, in which he played the sulphurous Joffrey de Peyrac in 1964, Wretched, which he produced in 1982 and which will be highly praised at the César the same year, or Venus Beauty, in which he plays an aviator alongside Nathalie Baye and Samuel Le Bihan.
If the man of cinema and theater shows great professionalism in front of the camera, in his private life, Robert Hossein allows himself more fantasies … Indeed, as he said himself, he "has not always been very good" when it came to his romantic relationships. Current wife invites you to discover who are the women who have marked the life of the actor-director.
A scandalous first marriage
In love, Robert Hossein has never really done in the conventional. If the years have made him a calm and faithful man, this has not always been the case: "In love, I have not always been very well, I have to admit it. On this point, age will have improved me. At least I dare to hope so …", can we read in Point, which relates his words. When he was twenty-eight, Robert Hossein met a beautiful Russian blonde, Marine Vlady, only sixteen years old. Whatever the age difference, the actor took her under his wing, made her shoot in several of his films and married her in the wake in 1955. Together, the two movie buffs would have two children, Igor and Pierre. The couple separated five years later.
In 1963, Robert Hossein's love life was once again controversial. After marrying a sixteen-year-old teenager, the comedian marries Caroline Eliacheff, then fifteen years old. A story that has been heavily talked about since the main interested party is none other than the daughter of journalist Françoise Giroud. Together, the couple welcome their son, Nicolas. Shortly after the birth of their child, the couple separated.
A tragic love story and her meeting with Candice Patou
While Robert Hossein no longer really believes in love, he meets Michèle Watrin, young actress of twenty-two years, and immediately falls madly in love with her. However, a drama will come to stop their romance in full swing. On August 2, 1974, the young actress dies in a violent car accident on the A7 motorway very close to Valence. Robert Hossein, at his side during the shock, narrowly escapes death.
Following this drama, Robert Hossein does not despair. Then forty-nine years old, he meets the actress Candice Patou. For the first time in his life, the French director feels the need for stability. On June 28, 1976, the two lovers said "yes" to life in Reims and welcomed their son a few months later, Julian, now an actor. Last October, Robert Hossein confided in France Sunday about his last wife: "I have a lot of admiration and respect for her. During all these years, she helped me a lot. "
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