Émile Chautard
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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.
Known for
Credits
Morocco (1930)
as French General (uncredited)
Blonde Venus (1932)
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Shanghai Express (1932)
as Major Lenard
Wonder Bar (1934)
as Pierre (uncredited)
Design for Living (1933)
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
7th Heaven (1927)
as Father Chevillon
Marianne (1929)
as Père Joseph
The Three Musketeers (1933)
as Gen. Pelletier
The Flaming Forest (1926)
as André Audemard
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
as Headwaiter
Caught in the Fog (1928)
as The Old Man
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Frenchman
The Devil's in Love (1933)
as Father Carmion
Adoration (1928)
as Murajev
Just Like Heaven (1930)
as Dulac
His Tiger Lady (1928)
as Stage Manager
My Official Wife (1926)
as Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Lilac Time (1928)
as The Mayor
The Little Cafe (1931)
as Philibert
Cock of the Air (1932)
as French Ambassador
Now We're in the Air (1927)
as Monsieur Chelaine
Échec au roi (1930)
as King Eric VIII
Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)
as Director
The Solitaire Man (1933)
as French Hotel Clerk
A Man from Wyoming (1930)
as French Mayor
The Common Law (1931)
as Doorman (uncredited)
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
as Anatol
The Man from Yesterday (1932)
as Priest
Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930)
as Sylvester Corbett
The Love Mart (1927)
as Louis Frobelle
The Green Specter (1930)
as Abdoul
The Big House (1931)
as Pop
The Road to Reno (1931)
as Andre
The Noose (1928)
as Priest
The California Trail (1933)
as Don Marco Ramirez
Times Square (1929)
Actor
Estrellados (1930)
Actor
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1931)
Actor
House of Horror (1929)
as Old Miser
The Big Trail (1931)
as Padre
Paris at Midnight (1926)
as Père Goriot
Blonde or Brunette (1927)
as Father-in-Law
The bluffer (1932)
as Oscar Brown
Whispering Sage (1927)
as José Arastrade
Man of Two Worlds (1934)
as Natkusiak
Upstream (1927)
as Campbell-Mandare
Counter-Investigation (1930)
as O'Brien
Out of the Ruins (1928)
as Père Gilbert
The Olympic Hero (1928)
as Grandpa Brown
Sweeping Against the Winds (1930)
Actor
The son of the other (1932)
Actor