Actor

Roland Topor

Writing

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Movies: 35Series: 5Crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 49505

IMDb ID: nm0867718

Known for: Writing

Born: January 7, 1938

Died: April 16, 1997

Age: 59

Place of birth: Paris, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1964 - 2024

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 6.52

Wikidata: Q550806

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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.