Stephane Hessel,Stéphane Hessel was born on October 20, 1917 in Berlin, Germany as Stéphane Frédéric Hessel. He was an actor and writer, known for Thé ou café (1996), Quién mató a Walter Benjamin... (2005) and Les combattants de l'ombre - Des résistants européens contre le nazisme (2011).