Background
Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in Algiers, Algeria as Roger Lévy to Jewish parents.
Actor director politician screenwriter
Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in Algiers, Algeria as Roger Lévy to Jewish parents.
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.
His 1985 film, Hell Train, was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. In September 2000 he received the "Achir medal", the highest decoration from 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.
