Marcel L'Herbier
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 23, 1888
- Died
- November 26, 1979 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
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La Féerie des fantasmes
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What the East Wind Saw
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The Father of the Girl
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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Stolen Affections
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Queen's Necklace
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Happy Go Lucky
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The Bohemian Life
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The Honorable Catherine
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Fantastic Night
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Foolish Husbands
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Comedy of Happiness
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La Mode rêvée
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Land of Fire
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Savage Brigade
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Cordial Agreement
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Rasputin
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
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Forfaiture
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Nights of Fire
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The Citadel of Silence
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Children's Corner
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The Great Temptation
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The New Men
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Sacrifice of Honor
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The Imperial Road
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Le Bonheur
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The Adventurer
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The Scandal
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The Hawk
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Scent of the Woman in Black
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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Illegitimate Child
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La Femme d'une nuit
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Princely Nights
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L'Argent
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Little Devil May Care
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Le Vertige
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The Late Mathias Pascal
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The Inhuman Woman
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Résurrection
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Don Juan et Faust
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El Dorado
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Prometheus, Banker
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Villa Destin
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The Man of the Sea
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Le Carnaval des vérités
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Rose-France
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Le Bercail
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