Émile Chautard
Emile Chautard | |
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![]() Director Frank Borzage, center, with cast members (from left) Charles Farrell, George E. Stone (reclining), Émile Chautard, and David Butler on the battlefield set of 7th Heaven (1927) | |
Born | (1864-09-07)7 September 1864 Paris, France |
Died | 24 April 1934(1934-04-24) (aged 69) Westwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Film director, actor, screenwriter |
Years active | 1910-1934 |
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.
Contents
1 Life and work
2 Partial filmography
3 References
4 External links
Life and work
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,[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Partial filmography

La Dame de Monsoreau (1913)

Edward Kimball and Clara Kimball Young in The Marionettes (1918)
The Boss (1915) director
Magda (1917) director (lost)
The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918) director
Under the Greenwood Tree (1918) director
The Marionettes (1918) director
Eyes of the Soul (1919) director
The Marriage Price (1919) director
Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919) director, based on a Gaston Leroux story[4]
The Black Panther's Cub (1921) director
Whispering Shadows (1921) director
Forsaking All Others (1922) director
Youth to Youth (1922)
Daytime Wives (1923) director
Paris at Midnight (1926) actor
Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926) actor
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) actor
The Flaming Forest (1926) actor
Whispering Sage (1927) actor
Blonde or Brunette (1927) actor
Seventh Heaven (1927) actor
Upstream (1927) actor
The Love Mart (1927) actor
Now We're in the Air (1927) actor
The Olympic Hero (1928) actor
The Noose (1928) actor
Lilac Time (1928) actor
Out of the Ruins (1928) actor
Adoration (1928) actor
South Sea Rose (1929) actor
Marianne (1929) actor (silent and musical versions)
Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930) actor
Morocco (1930) actor
The Common Law (1931)
The Road to Reno (1931) actor
The Big Trail (1931)
The Little Cafe (1931)
The Man from Yesterday (1932) actor
Blonde Venus (1932) actor
Shanghai Express (1932) actor
The Devil's in Love (1933) actor
Man of Two Worlds (1934)
References
^ Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films, by Harry Waldman, pages 5-6
^ Von Sternberg, by John Baxter, pages 21-22
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^ 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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Émile Chautard at the Internet Broadway Database
Emile Chautard at Find a Grave
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