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Roland Topor

Roland Topor

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Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a French illustrator, painter, writer and
filmmaker. In 1962 he created the Panic Movement (mouvement panique),
together with Alejandro Jodorowsky
and Fernando Arrabal. Topor wrote the
novel "The Tenant" (1964), which was filmed by
Roman Polanski as
The Tenant (1976) (a remake of the
film,
Le nouveau locataire (2013),
was released in 2013). The book was re-issued with a new introduction
by Thomas Ligotti, a selection of short
stories by Topor, a representation of Topor's artwork and an essay on
the Polanski film version. Topor published several books of drawings,
including "Dessins panique" (1965), "Quatre roses pour Lucienne" (1967)
and "Toporland" (1975). With filmmaker
René Laloux, Topor made "The Dead Times"
(1964), Les escargots (1966) and
their most famous work, the feature
Fantastic Planet (1973).In 1982 he creates with Henri Xhonneux
the popular French TV series
Téléchat (1982), a parody of news
broadcasts featuring puppets of a cat and an ostrich. Topor also worked
as an actor, his most famous part being Renfield in
Werner Herzog's
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).