Émile Chautard

Known for ActingBorn 1864-09-06Died 1934-04-24 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 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.Read more

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Mysterious Mr. Parkes

House of Horror

Adoration

Blonde or Brunette

Untamed Youth

His Parisian Wife

The Horrors of War

Chicot the Jester

Eugénie Grandet

The Green Specter

Counter-Investigation

Caught in the Fog

The Olympic Hero

Paris at Midnight

The Flaming Forest

Living Lies

Eyes of the Soul

The bluffer

The Trial of Mary Dugan

A Man from Wyoming

Out of the Ruins

The Love Mart

My Official Wife

The Glory of Clementina

Paid in Full

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Cock of the Air

The Noose

Bardelys the Magnificent

The California Trail

The Little Cafe

Now We're in the Air

7th Heaven

Broken Hearts of Hollywood

Design for Living

The Solitaire Man

The Big Trail

The Big House

Shanghai Express

Estrellados

Sweeping Against the Winds

Échec au roi

Tiger Rose

Times Square

His Tiger Lady

Whispering Sage

Forsaking All Others

Youth to Youth