A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Emil Chautard
Emile Chautard
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Born:
September 6, 1864
Died:
April 24, 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. 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.
Director:
1910 Eugénie Grandet
1911 Dog and Wolf
1911 Hearts and Eyes
1912 The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1913 Chicot the Jester
1913 Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 The Eaglet
1913 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 The Spoiled Sparrows
1914 A Cashier's Novel
1914 The Horrors of War
1915 The Boss
1916 Love's Crucible
1916 The Heart of a Hero
1917 Forget-Me-Not
1917 Magda
1917 The Eternal Temptress
1917 The Family Honor
1917 The Fires of Youth
1917 The Web of Desire
1917 Under False Colors
1918 Under the Greenwood Tree
1919 Eyes of the Soul
1919 His Parisian Wife
1919 Out of the Shadow
1919 Paid in Full
1919 The Marriage Price
1919 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1921 Whispering Shadows
1922 Forsaking All Others
1923 Daytime Wives
Producer:
1910 Eugénie Grandet
1911 Dog and Wolf
1911 Hearts and Eyes
1912 The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1913 Chicot the Jester
1913 Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 The Eaglet
1913 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 The Spoiled Sparrows
1914 A Cashier's Novel
1914 The Horrors of War
1915 The Boss
1916 Love's Crucible
1916 The Heart of a Hero
1917 Forget-Me-Not
1917 Magda
1917 The Eternal Temptress
1917 The Family Honor
1917 The Fires of Youth
1917 The Web of Desire
1917 Under False Colors
1918 Under the Greenwood Tree
1919 Eyes of the Soul
1919 His Parisian Wife
1919 Out of the Shadow
1919 Paid in Full
1919 The Marriage Price
1919 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1921 Whispering Shadows
1922 Forsaking All Others
1923 Daytime Wives
Scenario Writer:
1910 Eugénie Grandet
1911 Dog and Wolf
1911 Hearts and Eyes
1912 The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1913 Chicot the Jester
1913 Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 The Eaglet
1913 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 The Spoiled Sparrows
1914 A Cashier's Novel
1914 The Horrors of War
1915 The Boss
1916 Love's Crucible
1916 The Heart of a Hero
1917 Forget-Me-Not
1917 Magda
1917 The Eternal Temptress
1917 The Family Honor
1917 The Fires of Youth
1917 The Web of Desire
1917 Under False Colors
1918 Under the Greenwood Tree
1919 Eyes of the Soul
1919 His Parisian Wife
1919 Out of the Shadow
1919 Paid in Full
1919 The Marriage Price
1919 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1921 Whispering Shadows
1922 Forsaking All Others
1923 Daytime Wives
Screenplay:
1910 Eugénie Grandet
1911 Dog and Wolf
1911 Hearts and Eyes
1912 The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1913 Chicot the Jester
1913 Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 The Eaglet
1913 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 The Spoiled Sparrows
1914 A Cashier's Novel
1914 The Horrors of War
1915 The Boss
1916 Love's Crucible
1916 The Heart of a Hero
1917 Forget-Me-Not
1917 Magda
1917 The Eternal Temptress
1917 The Family Honor
1917 The Fires of Youth
1917 The Web of Desire
1917 Under False Colors
1918 Under the Greenwood Tree
1919 Eyes of the Soul
1919 His Parisian Wife
1919 Out of the Shadow
1919 Paid in Full
1919 The Marriage Price
1919 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1921 Whispering Shadows
1922 Forsaking All Others
1923 Daytime Wives
Writer:
1910 Eugénie Grandet
1911 Dog and Wolf
1911 Hearts and Eyes
1912 The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1913 Chicot the Jester
1913 Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 The Eaglet
1913 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 The Spoiled Sparrows
1914 A Cashier's Novel
1914 The Horrors of War
1915 The Boss
1916 Love's Crucible
1916 The Heart of a Hero
1917 Forget-Me-Not
1917 Magda
1917 The Eternal Temptress
1917 The Family Honor
1917 The Fires of Youth
1917 The Web of Desire
1917 Under False Colors
1918 Under the Greenwood Tree
1919 Eyes of the Soul
1919 His Parisian Wife
1919 Out of the Shadow
1919 Paid in Full
1919 The Marriage Price
1919 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1921 Whispering Shadows
1922 Forsaking All Others
1923 Daytime Wives
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