French film director, actor, and screenwriter (1864–1934)
Emile Chautard
Chautard in 1920
Born (1864-09-07 ) 7 September 1864Died 24 April 1934(1934-04-24) (aged 69) Resting place Hollywood Forever Cemetery Occupation(s) Film director, actor, screenwriter Years active 1910–1934
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-Americanfilm director , actor, andscreenwriter , most active in thesilent era . He directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in more than 60 films between 1911 and 1934.
Chautard was born inParis . After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at theOdéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913,[ 1] Rochambeau , fromLe Havre to New York. From 1915 to about 1918, Chautard worked for theWorld Film Company based inFort Lee, New Jersey .
At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians includingMaurice Tourneur ,Léonce Perret ,George Archainbaud ,Albert Capellani andLucien Andriot , he developed such films as the 1915 version ofCamille Josef von Sternberg .[ 2] The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work forFamous Players–Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance aColleen Moore vehicle and two features forDerelys Perdue , but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg filmBlonde Venus
Chautard died inLos Angeles, California . He is interred at theHollywood Forever Cemetery .
Selected filmography [ edit ] La Dame de Monsoreau (1913)Edward Kimball andClara Kimball Young inThe Marionettes (1918)DirectorFrank Borzage , center, with cast members (from left)Charles Farrell ,George E. Stone (reclining), Émile Chautard, andDavid Butler on the battlefield set of7th Heaven The Mystery of the Yellow Room Protéa (1913) - Ministre de CEltieThe Eaglet The Rack The Boss Human Driftwood The Family Honor The Fires of Youth Magda A Girl's Folly The Eternal Temptress The Marionettes The House of Glass The Ordeal of Rosetta Under the Greenwood Tree The Marionettes Eyes of the Soul The Marriage Price The Mystery of the Yellow Room [ 3] The Black Panther's Cub Whispering Shadows Forsaking All Others Youth to Youth The Glory of Clementina Daytime Wives Untamed Youth Paris at Midnight Broken Hearts of Hollywood Bardelys the Magnificent My Official Wife Upstage The Flaming Forest Blonde or Brunette Upstream Whispering Sage Seventh Heaven Now We're in the Air The Love Mart The Noose His Tiger Lady The Olympic Hero Lilac Time Out of the Ruins Caught in the Fog Adoration House of Horror Marianne (1929,silent andmusical versions) - Père JosephTimes Square South Sea Rose Tiger Rose Free and Easy Le spectre vert (1930) - AbdoulSweeping Against the Winds (1930)Estrellados A Man from Wyoming Mysterious Mr. Parkes Just Like Heaven Morocco Counter Investigation Échec au roi (1930) - Le roi Eric VIII - The KingThe Little Cafe The Big Trail Révolte dans la prison (1931) - PopThe Common Law The Road to Reno The Yellow Ticket Le procès de Mary Dugan (1931)Cock of the Air Shanghai Express Le fils de l'autre (1932) - John WhitcombThe Man from Yesterday Blonde Venus Le bluffeur (1932) - Oscar BrownRasputin and the Empress The California Trail The Three Musketeers The Devil's in Love The Solitaire Man Design for Living Gallant Lady The Way to Love Man of Two Worlds Wonder Bar Come On Marines! Riptide Viva Villa! ^ Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films, by Harry Waldman, pages 5-6 ^ Von Sternberg, by John Baxter, pages 21-22 ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 243.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2 .
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