Émile Chautard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 6, 1864
- Died
- April 24, 1934 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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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Filmography
Wonder Bar
Movie · as Pierre (uncredited)
Man of Two Worlds
Movie · as Natkusiak
The California Trail
Movie · as Don Marco Ramirez
The Three Musketeers
Movie · as Gen. Pelletier
The Devil's in Love
Movie · as Father Carmion
The Solitaire Man
Movie · as French Hotel Clerk
Design for Living
Movie · as Train Conductor (uncredited)
Shanghai Express
Movie · as Major Lenard
The bluffer
Movie · as Oscar Brown
The son of the other
Movie
Cock of the Air
Movie · as French Ambassador
The Man from Yesterday
Movie · as Priest
Blonde Venus
Movie · as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie
The Common Law
Movie · as Doorman (uncredited)
The Big Trail
Movie · as Padre
The Little Cafe
Movie · as Philibert
The Yellow Ticket
Movie · as Headwaiter
The Road to Reno
Movie · as Andre
The Big House
Movie · as Pop
Estrellados
Movie
Sweeping Against the Winds
Movie
The Green Specter
Movie · as Abdoul
Just Like Heaven
Movie · as Dulac
A Man from Wyoming
Movie · as French Mayor
Morocco
Movie · as French General (uncredited)
Counter-Investigation
Movie · as O'Brien
Échec au roi
Movie · as King Eric VIII
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Movie · as Sylvester Corbett
Tiger Rose
Movie · as Frenchman
Marianne
Movie · as Père Joseph
House of Horror
Movie · as Old Miser
Times Square
Movie
Lilac Time
Movie · as The Mayor
The Noose
Movie · as Priest
Caught in the Fog
Movie · as The Old Man
Adoration
Movie · as Murajev
His Tiger Lady
Movie · as Stage Manager
Out of the Ruins
Movie · as Père Gilbert
The Olympic Hero
Movie · as Grandpa Brown
Whispering Sage
Movie · as José Arastrade
Blonde or Brunette
Movie · as Father-in-Law
Upstream
Movie · as Campbell-Mandare
7th Heaven
Movie · as Father Chevillon
Now We're in the Air
Movie · as Monsieur Chelaine
The Love Mart
Movie · as Louis Frobelle
Paris at Midnight
Movie · as Père Goriot
My Official Wife
Movie · as Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Movie · as Director
The Flaming Forest
Movie · as André Audemard
Bardelys the Magnificent
Movie · as Anatol