Émile Chautard
Acting
Born 1864-09-06
Died 1934-04-24
Paris, France
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Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys 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 film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Filmography
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Acting
35 credits
Morocco
Blonde Venus
Shanghai Express
Marianne
7th Heaven
Design for Living
Wonder Bar
Bardelys the Magnificent
The Noose
The Road to Reno
My Official Wife
The Three Musketeers
The Common Law
Cock of the Air
Caught in the Fog
The Devil's in Love
The Yellow Ticket
The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
The Man from Yesterday
Tiger Rose
Man of Two Worlds
Adoration
Upstream
The Flaming Forest
Lilac Time
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Blonde or Brunette
The Little Cafe
His Tiger Lady
The Green Specter
Échec au roi
Just Like Heaven
The Love Mart
Whispering Sage
The Man Who Forgot
Directing
27 credits
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Sudden Riches
Eugénie Grandet
The Rack
Untamed Youth
The Marionettes
Whispering Shadows
A Hungry Heart
Le chiffonnier de Paris
The Glory of Clementina
La duchesse des Folies-Bergères
The Arrival of Perpetua
Friday the 13th
Forsaking All Others
A Daughter of the Old South
The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
The Ordeal of Rosetta
Hearts and Eyes
Chicot the Jester
Under False Colors
All Man
The Black Panther's Cub
The House of Glass
The Heart of Ezra Greer
The Little Dutch Girl
The Man Who Forgot
Youth to Youth
Producing
2 credits
Writing
2 credits
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