---
name: "Henri Kassagi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kassagi"
fi1m_id: "kassagi"
imdb_id: "nm0440813"
tmdb_id: 1711541
wikidata_id: "Q2972606"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 September 1932"
died: "23 June 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:39:16.991270+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Henri Kassagi

## Identity

Henri Kassagi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kassagi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kassagi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0440813
- **TMDB ID:** 1711541
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2972606
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Kassagi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2972606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440813/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1711541

Actor. Born 28 September 1932 in Tunis, Tunisia. Died 23 June 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 September 1932, Tunis, Tunisia
- **Died:** 23 June 1997
- **Also known as:** Kassagi, Abdelmaǧīd al-Qaṣ
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Kassagi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2972606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440813/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1711541

## Biography

Henri Kassagi, also credited as Kassagi or Abdelmaǧīd al-QaṣʿAǧī, was a Franco-Tunisian actor, magician, painter and author. Born Abd El-maǧīd al-QaṣʿAǧī on 28 September 1932 in Halfaouine, Tunis, he trained his hands through pickpocketing in the streets of Tunis from a young age before moving to Paris in the early 1950s.

Kassagi appeared as the 1st Accomplice in Robert Bresson’s *Pickpocket* (1959), for which he also served as technical advisor on the thieves’ skills. After the film, he became a stage magician specialising in sleight-of-hand illusions based on pickpocketing techniques. He appeared in further screen roles, including episodes of the television series *Agence Intérim* (1969) and *Navarro* (1995), and the film *Loulou Graffiti* (1992). Kassagi died in Paris on 23 June 1997.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pickpocket* (1959), Fi1m 84, as 1st Accomplice — [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pickpocket* (1959), as 1st Accomplice — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)

## Gallery

- ![Henri Kassagi](https://film.one/media/person/3876434/gallery-dc6e849c2df5.jpg) Henri Kassagi — Photograph ist unbekannt, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Photo_pour_Autographe.TIF/lossy-page1-500px-Photo_pour_Autographe.TIF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photo de l'archive privé (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/3876434/gallery-014f5d0f8e96.jpg) Photo de l'archive privé (2013) — SaProgéniture, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Henri_Kassagi_1981.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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