Roland Topor
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French writer, screenwriter, actor and painter (1938-1997)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1938 births, 1997 deaths and 20th-century French male artists.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Paris, France
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…
Known for
- Les vendredis d'Apostrophes — Self (archive footage)2015
- Fantastic Laloux — Self2010
- Topor and Me — Self (Voice)2004
- Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort1997
- Three Lives and Only One Death — Bum #21996
- Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête — Maître Bessonet1995
- Topor, Père et Fils1993
- Nulle part ailleurs — Self1987
- The Satin Spider — Le médecin1986
- Swann in Love — Biche1984
via TMDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- 13th arrondissement of Paris
- Educated at
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Notable work
- The Tenant
- Field of work
- surrealism
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- date of birth
- 1938-01-07
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- date of death
- 1997-04-16
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- member of
- College of 'Pataphysics
- name in native language
- Roland Topor
- Commons category
- Roland Topor
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
- P12674
- Stifftieae
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Roland Topor, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
