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.

Known For

Nosferatu the Vampyre

as Renfield

Sweet Movie

Three Lives and Only One Death

as Bum #2

Swann in Love

as Biche

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

as Un émissaire du prince

Ratataplan

as Il boss

The Ones That Got Away

as The murderous fencer

Fantastic Laloux

as Self

Nulle part ailleurs

as Self

The Making of 'Nosferatu'

as Self