Roland Topor

Born: 1938-01-07, Paris, France

Died: 1997-04-16

Biography

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.

Filmography

• Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979)
• Sweet Movie (1974)
• Un amour de Swann (1984)
• L'araignée de satin (1986)
• Destins parallèles (1979)
• Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo ? (1966)
• Ratataplan (1979)
• Le seuil du vide (1974)
• La Fille du garde-barrière (1975)
• Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
• Celles qu'on n'a pas eues (1981)
• Le Boucher, la Star et l'Orpheline (1975)
• Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête (1995)
• Topor, Père et Fils (1993)