Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in
Algiers, Algeria 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. ==Awards and honours==