1. Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work.
13 Facts About Roland Topor
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Roland Topor spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo.
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Roland Topor's father was arrested and interned in a prison camp at Pithiviers, where inmates would be held before being sent to other concentration camps, usually Auschwitz.
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In Savoy, four-year-old Roland Topor was placed in a French family, was given a false name, and took on the identity of a Catholic schoolboy.
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Roland Topor studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Roland Topor's artworks have appeared in books, newspapers, posters, and film animations.
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Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant, which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976.
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Roland Topor's 1969 novel Joko's Anniversary is a fable about loss of identity and is a satire on social conformity.
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Roland Topor returned to these themes in his later novel Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne.
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Roland Topor received Polanski's response to the project in a letter dated 4 May 1966.
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Roland Topor wrote two songs for Megumi Satsu, "Je m'aime" and "Monte dans mon Ambulance".
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Roland Topor worked as an actor, his most famous part being Renfield in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht.
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Roland Topor variously wrote, directed and designed a number of theatre works.