Roland Topor
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.
Movie Appearances
Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Renfield
1979
Swann in Love
as Biche
1984
Topor and Me
as Self (Voice)
2004
The Satin Spider
as Le médecin
1986
Cartoon circus
as Self
1972
The Ones That Got Away
as The murderous fencer
1981
Destins parallèles
1979
Italiques: Roland Topor
as Self
1974
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
as Le pochard
1975
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Inspector Labelote
1975
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as Self
1979
Threshold of the Void
as Homme dans le métro
1974
Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort
1997
Sweet Movie
1974
He! Viva Dada
as Self
1965
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as Un émissaire du prince
1966
Fantastic Laloux
as Self
2010
Topor, Père et Fils
1993
Three Lives and Only One Death
as Bum #2
1996
