Léon Mathot
Born: 1886-03-05 in Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Died: 1968-03-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1978
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1953
- My Childish Father ... (Director)
1950
- La Danseuse de Marrakech ... (Director)
1949
- L'Homme aux mains d'argile ... (Director)
1948
- Le Dolmen tragique ... (Director)
1947
- La dernière chevauchée ... (Director)
1946
- Alert Nights ... (Director)
1945
- La Route du bagne ... (Director)
1943
- L'Homme sans nom ... (Director)
1942
- Cartacalha, reine des gitans ... (Director)
- Forte tête ... (Director)
1941
- Fromont Young and Risler Elder ... (Director)
1940
- Hangman's Noose ... (Director)
1939
- Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur as Abbé Gaillard
- Sacred Woods ... (Director)
- Immediate Call ... (Director)
1938
- Chéri-Bibi ... (Director)
- The Rebel ... (Director)
1937
- L'Ange du foyer ... (Director)
- A Man to Kill ... (Director)
- Aloha, the Song of the Islands ... (Director)
1936
- Wolves Between Them ... (Director)
1935
- La Mascotte ... (Director)
- Count Obligado ... (Director)
1934
- Bouboule 1er, roi nègre ... (Director)
1933
- Naked as a Worm ... (Director)
1932
- Kiss Me ... (Director)
1931
- The shelter ... (Director)
- Passport 13.444
- Bouboule's Gang ... (Director)
1930
- L'instinct as Jean Bernon
- The mystery of the pink villa as Langeac
- The house of La Fleche
1929
- L'appassionata ... (Director)
1928
- In the Shadow of the Harem as L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
1927
- Yasmina
- Rue de la Paix as Ally - un millionnaire
- Celle qui domine ... (Director)
1926
1925
- The Devil in the City as Marc Herner
- Der Maler und sein Modell
- A Night of Romance as Antonio Scapa
1923
- Vent debout
- The Red Inn as Prosper Magnan
- Cœur fidèle as Jean
1922
- L'Empereur des pauvres as Marc Anavan
- Être ou ne pas être
- Jean d'Agrève as Jean d'Agrève
1921
1920
- Work as Luc Froment
- The Empire of Diamonds as Arthur Graves
- L'Ami Fritz
1918
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantès
1917
- The Right to Life as Jacques Alberty
- Barberousse as Trively
- Will as Louis Hérault
- The Zone of Death
1912
- Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg as Prince Algabert
- Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel as Joachim Goethal