Roger Hanin
Roger Hanin (born Roger Levy, 20 October 1925 – 11 February 2015) was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the TV police drama, Navarro.[2]
Also recorded as Roger Paul Jacob Lévy · Roger Lévy · Roger Jacob Lévy · Roger Paul Jacob Levy
Roger Hanin

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- Name
- Roger Hanin
- Birth Name
- Roger Paul Jacob Lévy[1]
- Born
- 20 October 1925
- Birthplace
- Algiers, Algeria
- Died
- 11 February 2015
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Actor, director
- Spouse
- Christine Gouze-Rénal
- Full name
- Roger Paul Jacob Lévy.
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- film
- Teachers
- Tania Balachova
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Roger Hanin (born Roger Levy, 20 October 1925 – 11 February 2015) was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the TV police drama, Navarro.[2]
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Roger Hanin (1925–2015) was an actor, director and politician, among other activities, of French nationality. The actor was born Roger Paul Jacob Lévy in Algiers and died in 15th arrondissement of Paris. Activity centred on film.
Languages used include French. Honours include National Order of Clan Class Merit.
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• Name — Roger Hanin • Birth Name — Roger Paul Jacob Lévy[1] • Born — 20 October 1925 • Birthplace — Algiers, Algeria • Died — 11 February 2015 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Actor, director • Spouse — Christine Gouze-Rénal
Career
Career
Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in Algiers, Algeria as Roger Lévy to Jewish parents.[3] His brother-in-law was François Mitterrand (the former President of France), whose wife, Danielle, was the sister of Hanin's wife, Christine Gouze-Rénal. With Claude Chabrol, Hanin co-wrote the scripts for a pair of spy films in the mid-1960s. Chabrol directed Code Name: Tiger (1964) and Our Agent Tiger (1965), both featuring Hanin in the starring role of secret agent Le Tigre. From the late 1970s, Hanin enjoyed newfound popularity in France thanks to his roles in Le Coup de Sirocco, a dramedy about the pieds-noirs exodus in Metropolitan France and Le Grand pardon, a gangster film about the French Jewish pied-noir mafia. Both films were directed by Alexandre Arcady. From 1989 to 2007, he played the title character in the TV series Navarro.
Actor
Actor
• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1952 — The Road to Damascus — Un disciple — Max Glass • 1953 — La môme vert-de-gris — a bodyguard — Bernard Borderie • 1954 — Les Impures — Le client de Lili — Pierre Chevalier — Uncredited • 1955 — Série noire — Ménard — Pierre Foucaud • Gas-Oil — René Schwob — Gilles Grangier • Les Hussards — a soldier — Alex Joffé — Uncredited • Les salauds vont en enfer — Un mauvais garçon — Robert Hossein — Uncredited • Vous pigez? — Istria — Pierre Chevalier • 1957 — He Who Must Die — Pannagotaros — Jules Dassin • Escapade — Olivier — Ralph Habib • 1958 — Tamango — First Mate Bebe — John Berry • The Cat — Pierre — Henri Decoin • Be Beautiful But Shut Up — Charlemagne — Marc Allégret • Le désordre et la nuit — Albert Simoni — Gilles Grangier • Sunday Encounter — Robert Sartori — Marc Allégret • 1959 — Ramuntcho — Itchoa — Pierre Schoendoerffer • La Valse du Gorille — Géo Paquet a.k.a. le Gorille — Bernard Borderie • Du rififi chez les femmes — Bug — Alex Joffé • Le Fric — Robert Bertin — Maurice Cloche • The Verdict — Antoine Castellani — Jean Valère • 1960 — Breathless — Cal Zombach — Jean-Luc Godard • L'Ennemi dans l'ombre — Serge Cazais — Charles Gérard • Rocco and His Brothers — Morini — Luchino Visconti • L'Affaire d'une nuit — Michel Ferréol — Henri Verneuil • 1961 — Vive Henri IV, vive l'amour — Ravaillac — Claude Autant-Lara • Le Miracle des loups — Charles the Bold — André Hunebelle • Les Bras de la nuit — Inspecteur Landais — Jacques Guymont • 1962 — Les Ennemis — Capitaine Jean de Lursac — Édouard Molinaro • Carillons sans joie — Maurice — Charles Brabant • Le Gorille a mordu l'archevêque — Géo Paquet a.k.a. le Gorille — Maurice Labro • March on Rome — Capitaine Paolinelli — Dino Risi • 1963 — Portuguese Vacation — Pierre Kast — Uncredited • 1964 — Das Haus auf dem Hügel — Ernest Charnot — Werner Klingler • Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche — Louis Rapière a.k.a. le Tigre — Claude Chabrol • 1965 — Passeport diplomatique agent K 8 — Mirmont — Robert Vernay • Un mari à prix fixe — Romain de Brétigny — Claude de Givray • Code Name: Jaguar — Bob Stuart — Maurice Labro • Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha — Bruno Kerrien — Claude Chabrol • Our Agent Tiger — Louis Rapière a.k.a. le Tigre — Claude Chabrol • 1966 — Via Macau — Michel — Jean Leduc • Our Men in Bagdad — Sadov — Paolo Bianchini • The Brides of Fu Manchu — Pierre Grimaldi — Don Sharp • Four Queens for an Ace — Dan Layton — Jacques Poitrenaud • Le Solitaire passe à l'attaque — Frank Norman — Ralph Habib • 1967 — Da Berlino l'Apocalisse — Saint Dominique — Mario Maffei • Le chacal traque les filles — François Merlin, dit le Chacal — Jean-Michel Rankovitch • Le Canard en fer blanc — François Cartier — Jacques Poitrenaud • 1968 — They Came to Rob Las Vegas — the Boss — Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi • 1969 — Bruno, l'enfant du dimanche — Michel Fauvel — Louis Grospierre • La Main — L'inspecteur / Le producteur — Henri Glaeser • Plus jamais seuls — Stéphane — Jean Delire • 1970 — Le clair de terre — M. Brumeu, le père de Pierre — Guy Gilles • Senza via d'uscita — Kurt — Michael Pressman • 1971 — Une femme libre — André — Claude Pierson • The Most Gentle Confessions — Inspecteur Borelli — Édouard Molinaro • 1972 — The Revengers — Quiberon — Daniel Mann • 1973 — La raison du plus fou — Le patron de l'hôtel — François Reichenbach • Le concierge — Barbarin - un industriel — Jean Girault • Tony Arzenta — Carré • 1974 — Le Protecteur — Julien da Costa — Roger Hanin • 1975 — L'intrépide — Canello — Jean Girault • Le faux-cul — Belkacem — Roger Hanin • 1978 — The Pocket Lover — Barbouze ministre 1 — Bernard Queysanne • Le Sucre — Karbaoui — Jacques Rouffio • 1979 — Le Coup de sirocco — Albert Narboni — Alexandre Arcady • 1980 — Certaines nouvelles — Georges — Jacques Davila • 1982 — Le Grand Pardon — Raymond Bettoun — Alexandre Arcady • Les Misérables — the innkeeper — Robert Hossein • La Baraka — Aimé Prado — Jean Valère • 1983 — My Other Husband — Philippe — Georges Lautner • Le Grand Carnaval — Léon Castelli — Alexandre Arcady • 1985 — Hell Train — Commissaire Couturier — Roger Hanin • 1986 — La Galette du roi — Victor Harris — Jean-Michel Ribes • L'étincelle — Maurice — Michel Lang • 1987 — Lévy et Goliath — Voix de Dieu — Gérard Oury — Uncredited • La rumba — Beppo Manzoni — Roger Hanin • Dernier été à Tanger — William Barrès, le maître de Tanger — Alexandre Arcady • 1989 — L'Orchestre rouge — Berzine — Jacques Rouffio • 1990 — Jean Galmot, aventurier — Georges Picard, le gouverneur — Alain Maline • 1992 — Day of Atonement — Raymond Bettoun — Alexandre Arcady • 1993 — Le Nombril du monde — Scali — Ariel Zeitoun • 1997 — Soleil — Prof. Meyer Lévy — Roger Hanin
Producer
Producer
• Soleil (1997) with Marianne Sägebrecht
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Roger Hanin was recorded at birth as Roger Paul Jacob Lévy. The authorities additionally record the headings Roger Paul Jacob Lévy, Roger Lévy, Roger Jacob Lévy, Roger Paul Jacob Levy and Roger Levy. His recorded language was French. He married Christine Gouze-Rénal.
Identity
Identity
Roger Hanin is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as actor, politician, screenwriter, writer and director.

Roger Hanin and Alain Delon in Luchino Visconti's film "Rocco e i suoi fratelli", directed in 1960.
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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The full dated record · 8 entries
1925
Roger Hanin was born on 20 October 1925.
1994
Les gants blancs d'Alexandre is dated 1994.
1996
Les sanglots de la fête is dated 1996.
1998
L'Hôtel de la vieille lune is dated 1998.
2001
Lettre à un ami mystérieux is dated 2001.
2003
Gustav is dated 2003.
2015
Roger Hanin died at 15th arrondissement of Paris.
2018
Roger Hanin (2018) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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Algiers.
Birth place
15th arrondissement of Paris.
Death place
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Primary material
Documents and archives
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q945936: Roger Hanin
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reference work
- “Roger Hanin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and honours
His 1985 film, Hell Train, was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.[4][5] In September 2000 he was awarded a place on the honourable list of the National Order of Merit of Algeria. He said: "I always refused decorations. This is the first time that I agree, but it's also the last because I want it to be unique."[6][7]
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- 1.Biographie Roger Hanin Artiste dramatique. www.whoswho.fr.
- 2.Hal Erickson. Roger Hanin. The New York Times. 2015.
- 3.Roger Hanin inhumé ce vendredi à Alger, près de la tombe de son père. EuroNews. 11 February 2015.
- 4.14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985). MIFF.
- 5.Roger Hanin. IMDb.
- 6.EN IMAGES. L'hommage parisien à Roger Hanin. Le Parisien. 12 February 2015.
- 7.Des personnalités rendent hommage à Roger Hanin. Tribune de Genève. 12 February 2015.
- 8.Algérie: Le minot de la Casbah d'Alger est mort. allAfrica.com.
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