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Émile Chautard
Paris, France
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 a…
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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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1934
Wonder Bar
Movie Pierre (uncredited)
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1934
Man of Two Worlds
Movie Natkusiak
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1933
Design for Living
Movie Train Conductor (uncredited)
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1933
The Solitaire Man
Movie French Hotel Clerk
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1933
The Devil's in Love
Movie Father Carmion
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1933
The Three Musketeers
Movie Gen. Pelletier
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1933
The California Trail
Movie Don Marco Ramirez
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1932
The bluffer
Movie Oscar Brown
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1932
Blonde Venus
Movie Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
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1932
The Man from Yesterday
Movie Priest
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1932
The son of the other
Movie
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1932
Shanghai Express
Movie Major Lenard
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1932
Cock of the Air
Movie French Ambassador
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1931
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie
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1931
The Yellow Ticket
Movie Headwaiter
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1931
The Road to Reno
Movie Andre
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1931
The Common Law
Movie Doorman (uncredited)
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1931
The Big House
Movie Pop
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1931
The Big Trail
Movie Padre
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1931
The Little Cafe
Movie Philibert
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1930
Échec au roi
Movie King Eric VIII
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1930
Counter-Investigation
Movie O'Brien
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1930
Morocco
Movie French General (uncredited)
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1930
Just Like Heaven
Movie Dulac
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1930
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Movie Sylvester Corbett
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1930
A Man from Wyoming
Movie French Mayor
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1930
Estrellados
Movie
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1930
The Green Specter
Movie Abdoul
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1929
Tiger Rose
Movie Frenchman
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1929
Times Square
Movie
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1929
Marianne
Movie Père Joseph
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1929
House of Horror
Movie Old Miser
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1928
Adoration
Movie Murajev
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1928
Lilac Time
Movie The Mayor
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1928
Caught in the Fog
Movie The Old Man
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1928
Out of the Ruins
Movie Père Gilbert
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1928
The Olympic Hero
Movie Grandpa Brown
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1928
His Tiger Lady
Movie Stage Manager
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1928
The Noose
Movie Priest
