Léon Mathot

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Léon Mathot

Acting March 5, 1886

Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Coun…

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Cœur fidèle

Cœur fidèle

7.2 1923 Movie
Pour le plaisir

Pour le plaisir

1964 TV Show
The Red Inn

The Red Inn

6.1 1923 Movie
The Right to Life

The Right to Life

1917 Movie
Chéri-Bibi

Chéri-Bibi

5.0 1938 Movie
Le Dolmen tragique

Le Dolmen tragique

6.1 1948 Movie
L'instinct

L'instinct

9.0 1930 Movie
The Mascot

The Mascot

10.0 1935 Movie
Vent debout

Vent debout

7.3 1923 Movie
Work

Work

10.0 1920 Movie
Yasmina

Yasmina

10.0 1927 Movie
Fromont Young and Risler Elder

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

7.5 1941 Movie

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Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1978
    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  2. 1964
    Pour le plaisir

    TV show Self

  3. 1953
    My Childish Father

    Movie Director

  4. 1950
    La Danseuse de Marrakech

    Movie Director

  5. 1949
    L'Homme aux mains d'argile

    Movie Director

  6. 1948
    Le Dolmen tragique

    Movie Director

  7. 1947
    La Dernière chevauchée

    Movie Director

  8. 1946
    Alert Nights

    Movie Director

  9. 1945
    La Route du bagne

    Movie Director

  10. 1943
    L'Homme sans nom

    Movie Director

  11. 1942
    Forte tête

    Movie Director

  12. 1942
    Cartacalha, reine des gitans

    Movie Director

  13. 1941
    Fromont Young and Risler Elder

    Movie Director

  14. 1940
    Hangman's Noose

    Movie Director

  15. 1939
    Sacred Woods

    Movie Director

  16. 1939
    Immediate Call

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 1939
    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

    Movie Abbé Gaillard

  2. 1938
    The Rebel

    Movie Director

  3. 1938
    Chéri-Bibi

    Movie Director

  4. 1937
    Aloha, the Song of the Islands

    Movie Director

  5. 1937
    L'Ange du foyer

    Movie Director

  6. 1937
    A Man to Kill

    Movie Director

  7. 1936
    Wolves Between Them

    Movie Director

  8. 1935
    The Mascot

    Movie Director

  9. 1935
    Count Obligado

    Movie Director

  10. 1934
    Bouboule 1er, roi nègre

    Movie Director

  11. 1933
    Naked as a Worm

    Movie Director

  12. 1932
    Kiss Me

    Movie Director

  13. 1931
    Bouboule's Gang

    Movie Director

  14. 1931
    Passport 13.444

    Movie

  15. 1931
    The shelter

    Movie Director

  16. 1930
    The house of La Fleche

    Movie

  17. 1930
    L'instinct

    Movie Jean Bernon

  18. 1930
    The mystery of the pink villa

    Movie Langeac

  19. 1929
    L'appassionata

    Movie Director

  20. 1928
    In the Shadow of the Harem

    Movie L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser

  21. 1927
    Celle qui domine

    Movie Director

  22. 1927
    Rue de la Paix

    Movie Ally - un millionnaire

  23. 1927
    Yasmina

    Movie

  24. 1926
    The Cradle of God

    Movie