Roland Topor
Actor
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
Sweet Movie
1974
Three Lives and Only One Death
as Bum #2 1996
Swann in Love
as Biche 1984
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as Un émissaire du prince 1966
Ratataplan
as The Boss 1979
The Ones That Got Away
as The murderous fencer 1981
Fantastic Laloux
as Self 2010
Threshold of the Void
as Homme dans le métro 1974
The Satin Spider
as Le médecin 1986
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self 1979
Cartoon circus
as Self 1972
Topor and Me
as Self (Voice) 2004
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Inspector Labelote 1975
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
as Self (archive footage) 2015
Destins parallèles
1979
Italiques: Roland Topor
as Self 1974