Roland Topor

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.

Known For: Writing

Born: Paris, France, 1938-01-07

Died: 1997-04-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	He! Viva Dada	Self	0
2	1966	Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?	Un émissaire du prince	64
3	1972	Cartoon circus	Self	50
4	1974	Threshold of the Void	Homme dans le métro	73
5	1974	Sweet Movie		52
6	1974	Italiques: Roland Topor	Self	0
7	1975	The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan	Inspector Labelote	0
8	1975	The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard	Le pochard	0
9	1979	Ratataplan	Il boss	68
10	1979	Destins parallèles		0
11	1979	Nosferatu the Vampyre	Renfield	73
12	1979	The Making of 'Nosferatu'	Self	63
13	1981	The Ones That Got Away	The murderous fencer	46
14	1984	Swann in Love	Biche	57
15	1986	The Satin Spider	Le médecin	10
16	1993	Topor, Père et Fils		0
17	1997	Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort		0
18	2004	Topor and Me	Self (Voice)	40
19	2010	Fantastic Laloux	Self	51
20	2015	Les vendredis d'Apostrophes	Self (archive footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
2	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
3	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56