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1. Louis Lumière
Producer | La Mi-Carême, Char et batailles de confettis
Louis Lumière was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. His parents were Antoine Lumière, a photographer and painter, and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small ...
Producer (Director) (1895) Le maréchal-ferrant (1895) Exiting the Factory (1895) Bocal aux poissons-rouges (1895) Baby's Dinner (1895) The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895) Barque sortant du port (1895-06-12) Départ en voiture (1896) The Arrival of a Train (1896) Arroseur et arrosé (1896) Panorama de l'arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train (1896) Pont de Westminster (1896) Negro Street Dancers (1896) Bassin des Tuileries (1896) Partie de boules (1896) Bataille de femmes (1896) Débarquement (1896) Bains en mer (1896) Déchargement d'un navire (1896) Retour d'une promenade en mer (1896) Dresden, August-Brücke (1896) Saint-Pétersbourg, Rue Tverskaïa (1896) London Street Dancers (1896) Champs-Élysées (1896) Concours de boules (1896) Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau (1896) Labourage (1896) Course en sacs (1896) Milan, place du Dôme (1896) Bal Espagnol dans la rue (Mexique) (1896) Pigeons sur la place Saint-Marc (1896) Broadway et Wall Street (1897) Rome, cortège au mariage du prince de Naples (1897) Bonne d'enfants et soldat (1897) Panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, I (1897) Douche après le bain (1897) Les joueurs de cartes arrosés (1897) Paris, le Pont-Neuf (1897) Transport d'une tourelle par un attelage de 60 chevaux (1897) Entrée d'une noce à l'église (1897) Attelage d'un camion (1897) Menuisiers (1897) Liverpool, Church Street (1897) Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1898) Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer (1899) La petite fille et son chat (1899) La Pelouse - Voitures et foules (1899) Turin: La duchesse d'Aoste à l'exposition (1900) La tour Eiffel (1903) The False Cripple
2. Auguste Lumière
Producer | Londres, alerte de pompiers: film Lumière n° 246
Auguste Lumière was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist, born in Besançon, France. He attended the Martinière Technical School and worked as a manager at the photographic company of his father, Antoine Lumière. Although it is his brother Louis Lumière who is generally ...
Producer (Director) (1895) Le maréchal-ferrant (1895) Exiting the Factory (1895) Bocal aux poissons-rouges (1895) Baby's Dinner (1895) The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895) Départ en voiture (1896) The Arrival of a Train (1896) Arroseur et arrosé (1896) Panorama de l'arrivée à Aix-les-Bains pris du train (1896) Pont de Westminster (1896) Negro Street Dancers (1896) Bassin des Tuileries (1896) Partie de boules (1896) Bataille de femmes (1896) Débarquement (1896) Bains en mer (1896) Déchargement d'un navire (1896) Retour d'une promenade en mer (1896) Dresden, August-Brücke (1896) Saint-Pétersbourg, Rue Tverskaïa (1896) London Street Dancers (1896) Champs-Élysées (1896) Concours de boules (1896) Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau (1896) Labourage (1896) Course en sacs (1896) Milan, place du Dôme (1896) Bal Espagnol dans la rue (Mexique) (1896) Pigeons sur la place Saint-Marc (1896) Broadway et Wall Street (1897) Rome, cortège au mariage du prince de Naples (1897) Bonne d'enfants et soldat (1897) Panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, I (1897) Douche après le bain (1897) Les joueurs de cartes arrosés (1897) Paris, le Pont-Neuf (1897) Transport d'une tourelle par un attelage de 60 chevaux (1897) Entrée d'une noce à l'église (1897) Attelage d'un camion (1897) Menuisiers (1897) Liverpool, Church Street (1897) Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1898) Passage d'un tunnel en chemin de fer (1899) La petite fille et son chat (1899) La Pelouse - Voitures et foules (1899) Turin: La duchesse d'Aoste à l'exposition (1900) La tour Eiffel (1903) The False Cripple
3. Léon Gaumont
Producer | The First Men in the Moon
Léon Gaumont was born on May 10, 1864 in Paris, France. He was a producer and editor, known for The First Men in the Moon (1919), Images de Chine (1905) and La nuit de noces de Calino (1911). He was married to Camille Maillard. He died on August 10, 1946 in Sainte-Maxime, Var, France.
Presenter 1895 - Gaumont Film Company (1906) Félix Mayol (1911) The Great East End Anarchist Battle
4. Alice Guy
Director | The Woman of Mystery
The world's first female filmmaker, French-born Alice Guy entered the film business in 1896 as a secretary at Gaumont, a manufacturer of movie cameras and projectors who had purchased a "cinématographer" from its inventors, the Lumiere brothers. The next year Gaumont became the world's first motion...
Director (1896) La fée aux choux (1905) Valsons (1906) Questions indiscrètes (2017) Early Women Filmmakers (2018) Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
5. Charles Pathé
Producer | À la conquête du pôle
Charles Pathé was born on December 25, 1863 in Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a producer and director, known for À la conquête du pôle (1912), Arrivée d'un train (1896) and Débarquement d'un bateau (1896). He was married to Marie Foy. He died on ...
Presenter 1896 - Pathé (1906) Revolution in Russia (1908) The Runaway Horse (1908) A Narrow Escape (1919) J'accuse! (1923) The Wheel
6. Ferdinand Zecca
Director | La lutte pour la vie
Was a cafe concert entertainer before Charles Pathe noticed him during the Universal Exhibition, where Zecca had been assigned to Pathe's stand. After a few daysPathe asked Zecca if he would like to work in cinematography. Zecca immediately accepted the offer and rapidly became Pathe's right hand ...
Presenter 1896 - Pathé (Director) (1906) Revolution in Russia (1907) The Red Spectre
7. Georges Méliès
Director | À la conquête du pôle
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, ...
Director (1898) A Trip to the Moon (1899) Cinderella (1900) The One-Man Band (1901) The Man with the Rubber Head (1902) The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (1902) The Coronation of King Edward VII (1903) The Music Lover (1904) The Voyage Across the Impossible (1905) Unexpected Fireworks (1906) Soap Bubbles (1952) Le grand Méliès
8. George Albert Smith
Director | Phantom Ride
Along with his better-known French counterpart Georges Méliès George Albert Smith was one of the first filmmakers to explore fictional and fantastic themes, often using surprisingly sophisticated special effects. His background was ideal--an established portrait photographer, he also had a ...
Cameraman (1902) The Coronation of King Edward VII
9. Eugène Lauste
Director | Bullfight
Eugène Lauste was born on January 17, 1857 in Montmartre, Paris, France. He was a director, known for Bullfight (1896) and Drill of the Engineer Corps (1896). He died on June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
Inventor of Sound-on-Film 1904 (In England, UK)
10. Félix Mayol
Soundtrack | Legion
Félix Mayol (1872-1941) was a popular French singer of the Belle Epoque. Born in Toulon, he had modest debuts on the stages of Toulon and Marseille but became a success in Paris in 1895 as a singer performing in a campy, effeminate way. An anecdote published in his memoirs reports that for lack of ...
Singer (Actor) (1906) Questions indiscrètes
11. Segundo de Chomón
Director | Un portero modelo
Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his wife, who was an actress in Pathé films. In 1902 he became a concessionary for Pathé in Barcelona, distributing its product in Spanish-speaking countries and managing a factory for the coloring of Pathé films. He began shooting footage of ...
Director (Cameraman, Special Effects) (1906) The Inexperienced Chauffeur (1907) Music, Forward! (1907) The Red Spectre (1927) Napoleon
12. Albert Dieudonné
Writer | Son crime
Albert Dieudonné was born on November 26, 1889 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Son crime (1921), Gloire rouge (1923) and Sous la griffe (1917). He died on March 19, 1976 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Actor (1908) The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1927) Napoleon (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995– ) The Music of Light
13. Camille Saint-Saëns
Soundtrack | If I Stay
Composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems -the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman- and for his opera 'Samson et Dalila'. Notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music, he was also a gifted pianist and organist, and a writer of criticism, poetry, essays, and ...
Composer (1908) The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
14. Albert Capellani
Director | Oh Boy!
Albert Capellani was born on August 23, 1874 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Oh Boy! (1919), The Virtuous Model (1919) and The Easiest Way (1917). He died on September 26, 1931 in Paris, France.
Director (1908) Drink (1912) Les misérables (1913) Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913) Les Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913) Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor
15. Émile Zola
Writer | Bakjwi
Émile Zola was born on April 2, 1840, in Paris, France. His father was an Italian engineer. Young Zola studied at the Collége Bourbon in Provence, where his schoolmate and friend was Paul Cezanne. In 1858 Zola returned to Paris and became a student at the Lycée Saint-Louis, from which he graduated ...
Writer (1908) Drink (1913) Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor (1920) Travail (1921) La terre (1926) Nana (1928) L'Argent (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1938) La Bête Humaine
16. Louis Feuillade
Director | Les vampires
A prolific director--over 700 films, most of them short- or medium-length--Louis Feuillade began his career with Gaumont where, as well as directing his own features, he was appointed artistic director in charge of production in 1907. His work was largely comprised of film series; his first series,...
Director (1909) The Blind Man of Jerusalem (1913) Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1915) Les vampires (1916) Judex (1918) Vendémiaire (1918) Tih Minh
17. Sarah Bernhardt
Actress | La dame aux camélias
This celebrated star of the French stage had a sporadic love-hate affair with early cinema. After her film debut in Le duel d'Hamlet (1900) she declared she detested the medium; yet she consented to appear in another film, La Tosca (1909). Upon seeing the results, she reportedly recoiled in horror,...
Actress (1912) Queen Elizabeth (1915) Those of Our Land
18. Max Linder
Actor | Seven Years Bad Luck
Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic ...
Actor (Director) (1912) Entente cordiale (1913) Jealous Husband (1917) Max, the Heartbreaker
19. Victor Hugo
Writer | Les Misérables
Although Hugo was fascinated by poems from childhood on, he spent some time at the polytechnic university of Paris until he dedicated all his work to literature. He was one of the few authors who were allowed to reach popularity during his own lifetime and one of the leaders of French romance.
After...
Writer (1912) Les misérables (1913) Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913) Les Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1925) Barricade (Les Miserables Part II) (1928) The Man Who Laughs
20. Léonce Perret
Director | L'enfant de Paris
Léonce Perret was born on March 13, 1880 in Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France. He was a director and actor, known for L'enfant de Paris (1913), The A.B.C. of Love (1919) and Léonce et les écrevisses (1913). He was married to Valentine Petit. He died on August 12, 1935 in Paris, France.
Director (Actor) (1913) Léonce cinématographiste (1913) L'enfant de Paris (1925) Madame Sans-Gêne (USA)
21. René Poyen
Actor | Pierrot, Pierrette
René Poyen was born on October 5, 1908 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Pierrot, Pierrette (1924), Judex: Prologue + L'ombre mystérieuse (1917) and Judex (1916). He died on February 4, 1968 in Paris, France.
Actor (1913) Léonce cinématographiste (1915) Les vampires (1916) Judex
22. Jacques Feyder
Director | La kermesse héroïque
Jacques Feyder was born on July 21, 1885 in Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Carnival in Flanders (1935), Le grand jeu (1934) and Fahrendes Volk (1938). He was married to Françoise Rosay. He died on May 24, 1948 in Rive-de-Prangins, Switzerland.
Director (Actor) (1913) Protéa (1915) Les vampires (1922) Coster Bill of Paris (1925) Mother (Switzerland) (1935) Carnival in Flanders (Belgium)
23. Alfred Machin
Director | Les héritiers de l'oncle James
Alfred Machin started his film work as camera man for Pathe at the beginning of 20 Century. During 1907 and 1909 he was in Africa, shooting documentary shorts. In 1910 he worked at the Pathe studio in Nizza, in 1911 he was one of the founding directors of the Pathe-filiale in Amsterdam, in 1913 he ...
Director (Cameraman) (1914) War Is Hell (1918) Hearts of the World (England, UK | USA)
24. Germaine Rouer
Actress | Au bonheur des dames
Germaine Rouer was born on November 2, 1897 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Ladies' Paradise (1930), Roger la Honte (1933) and Les vampires (1915). She died on December 26, 1994 in Paris, France.
Actress (1915) Les vampires (1921) La terre (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995– ) The Music of Light
25. Claude Monet
Art_department | Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny
Oscar-Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. His father, named Adolphe Monet, was a grocer. His mother, named Louise-Justine Monet, was a singer. Young Monet grew up in Le Havre, Normandy. There he developed a reputation for the caricatures he loved to draw. He studied ...
Painter [1877] The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1915) Those of Our Land
26. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Self | Ceux de chez nous
Pierre-Auguste Renior was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. His father was a tailor and his mother was a dressmaker. In 1845 his family moved to Paris and settled near the Louvre Museum. There young Renoir had his first experience with art.
From age 13 he became an apprentice painter in...
Painter (1915) Those of Our Land
27. Julien Duvivier
Writer | Panique
Revered by such legendary fellow directors as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier is one of the most legendary figures in the history of French cinema. He is perhaps the most neglected of the "Big Five" of classic French cinema (the other four being Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Jacques ...
Director (Assistant Director) (1918) Tih Minh (1921) La terre (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1932) Here's Berlin (Germany) (1935) La bandera (1937) Christine (1937) Pépé le Moko
28. Abel Gance
Writer | La roue
Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...
Director (Actor) (1919) J'accuse! (1923) The Wheel (1927) Napoleon (1928) The Fall of the House of Usher (1930) Autour de la fin du monde (1931) End of the World (1931) End of the World (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1938) I Accuse (1943) Captain Fracasse (1960) The Battle of Austerlitz (1972) Bonaparte et la révolution
29. Léonce-Henri Burel
Cinematographer | Journal d'un curé de campagne
Léonce-Henri Burel was born on November 23, 1892 in Indre, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Diary of a Country Priest (1951), A Man Escaped (1956) and Mother (1925). He died on March 21, 1977 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Cameraman (1919) J'accuse! (1921) La terre (1922) Coster Bill of Paris (1923) The Wheel (1925) Salammbo (1925) Mother (Switzerland) (1927) The Prince of Adventurers (1927) Napoleon (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1951) Diary of a Country Priest (1952) The Truth of Our Marriage (1956) A Man Escaped (1959) Pickpocket (1962) The Trial of Joan of Arc (1972) Bonaparte et la révolution
30. Séverin-Mars
Actor | La roue
Séverin-Mars was born on February 21, 1873 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Wheel (1923), Macbeth (1915) and La dixième symphonie (1918). He died on July 17, 1921 in Courgent, Yvelines, France.
Actor (1919) J'accuse! (1923) The Wheel
31. Henri Pouctal
Director | La dame aux camélias
Henri Pouctal was born on October 21, 1860 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a director and actor, known for La dame aux camélias (1912), L'instinct (1916) and Volonté (1917). He died on February 2, 1922 in Paris, France.
Director (1920) Travail
32. Simone Genevois
Actress | La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc
Simone Genevois was born on February 13, 1912 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929), Simone (1918) and Napoleon (1927). She was married to Jacques Pathé and André Conti. She died on December 16, 1995 in Ascona, Switzerland.
Actress (1920) Travail (1927) Napoleon (1929) Saint Joan the Maid
33. Marcel L'Herbier
Director | L'inhumaine
Marcel L'Herbier was born on April 23, 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Le bonheur (1934) and Sacrifice d'honneur (1935). He was married to Marcelle Pradot. He died on November 26, 1979 in Paris, France.
Director (1920) L'homme du large (1924) The Inhuman Woman (1926) The Living Dead Man (1928) L'Argent (1929) Autour de l'argent (1931) Le parfum de la dame en noir
34. Claude Autant-Lara
Director | Le diable au corps
Claude Autant-Lara was born on August 5, 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France. He was a director and writer, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), The Crossing of Paris (1956) and The Red and the Black (1954). He was married to Ghislaine Autant-Lara. He died on February 5, 2000 in Antibes, ...
Director (Assistant Director, Actor) (1920) L'homme du large (1924) The Inhuman Woman (1924) At 3:25 (1926) Nana (1930) Construire un feu (1946) Beauty and the Beast (1949) Occupe-toi d'Amélie..! (1952) The Seven Deadly Sins (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
35. Louis Delluc
Director | Fumée noire
Louis Delluc was born on October 14, 1890 in Le Buisson-de-Cadouin, Dordogne, France. He was a director and writer, known for Fumée noire (1920), The Woman from Nowhere (1922) and L'inondation (1924). He was married to Ève Francis. He died on March 22, 1924 in Paris, France.
Film Critic (Director) (1921) Fièvre
36. André Antoine
Director | La terre
André Antoine was born on January 31, 1858 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. He was a director and writer, known for La terre (1921), Mademoiselle de La Seiglière (1921) and The Swallow and the Titmouse (1924). He died on October 19, 1943 in Le Pouliguen, Loire-Atlantique, France.
Director (Writer) (1921) La terre
37. Robert Mallet-Stevens
Art_department | L'inhumaine
Robert Mallet-Stevens was born on March 24, 1886 in Paris, France. He was a production designer and set decorator, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Miracle of the Wolves (1924) and La ronde de nuit (1925). He was married to Andrée Léon-Berheim. He died on February 8, 1945 in Paris, France.
Architect (Set Decorator, Costume Designer) (1921) The Three Musketeers (1924) Miracle of the Wolves (1924) The Inhuman Woman (1927) The Chess Player
38. Jean Forest
Actor | Visages d'enfants
Jean Forest was born on September 25, 1912 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Mother (1925), Tovaritch (1935) and Mother of Mine (1926). He died on March 27, 1980.
Actor (1922) Coster Bill of Paris (1925) Mother (Switzerland)
39. Maurice de Féraudy
Soundtrack | Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Maurice de Féraudy was born on December 3, 1859 in Joinville-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, France. He was a director and actor, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), The Next Karate Kid (1994) and La Vie En Rose (2007). He was married to Eugénie Lainé. He died on May 12, 1932 in Paris, France.
Actor (1922) Coster Bill of Paris
40. Anatole France
Writer | Félicie Nanteuil
Anatole France, the 1921 Nobel laureate for literature, was born Jacques Anatole Thibault in Paris on April 16, 1844, the son of a Paris book dealer. He attended the Parisian boys' school Collège Stanislas, where he received a classical education, and later matriculated at the École des Chartes. ...
Writer (1922) Coster Bill of Paris
41. Ivy Close
Actress | Adam Bede
Ivy Close began a dynasty that has now covered four generations of the history of Cinema and Television. She married the photographer Elwin Neame (1885-1923) and reared two sons Ronald Neame (1911-2010), a successful cinematographer, screenwriter, producer and director and Derek Neame (1915-1979), ...
Actress (1923) The Wheel
42. Man Ray
Director | Home Movies
American painter and artist in various media who participated in a few films. He helped found the Dada movement and was the prime American participant in the Surrealist movement. An American expatriate to Paris in the 1920s, he was a member of the so-called "Lost Generation" of creative minds ...
Director (Cameraman, Assistant Director, Actor) (1923) Return to Reason (1924) Ballet mécanique (1924) Entr'acte (1926) Anemic Cinema
43. Jean Epstein
Director | La chute de la maison Usher
Jean Epstein was born on March 25, 1897 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Mauprat (1926) and Le lion des Mogols (1924). He died on April 2, 1953 in Paris, France.
Director (1923) The Faithful Heart (1924) La belle Nivernaise (1928) The Fall of the House of Usher (1929) Finis terrae (1934) Chanson d'Armor (1938) Les bâtisseurs [1946] The Intelligence of a Machine (Book) (1947) Le tempestaire
44. Blanche Montel
Actress | Les trois mousquetaires
Blanche Montel was born on August 14, 1902 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was an actress, known for Three Musketeers (1932), La belle Nivernaise (1924) and L'Arlésienne (1930). She was married to Henri Decoin. She died on March 31, 1998 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France.
Actress (1924) La belle Nivernaise (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
45. Henry Roussel
Director | Violettes impériales
Henry Roussel was born on September 8, 1870 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for Violettes impériales (1924), Visages voilés... âmes closes (1921) and La faute d'Odette Maréchal (1920). He died on February 7, 1946 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, ...
Director (1924) Her People
46. Jules Kruger
Cinematographer | Golgotha
Jules Kruger was born on July 12, 1891 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was a cinematographer, known for Behold the Man (1935), La fin du monde (1931) and End of the World (1931). He died on December 13, 1959 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Cameraman (1924) Her People (1927) Napoleon (1928) L'Argent (1931) End of the World (1931) End of the World (1935) La bandera (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1937) Pépé le Moko (1972) Bonaparte et la révolution
47. Raquel Meller
Actress | Violettes impériales
Raquel Meller was born in Tarazona, Zaragoza, Aragón (Spain) from a very poor family. Since her parents could not afford her education she was sent to live with an aunt who was a nun at a convent. At age 12 she returned with her parents who were then residing in Barcelona and shortly after began ...
Actress (Singer) (1924) Her People
48. Alexandre Volkoff
Director | Amore imperiale
Alexandre Volkoff was born on December 27, 1885 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Amore imperiale (1941), La maison du mystère (1923) and Kean (1924). He died on May 22, 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Director (Assistant Director) (1924) Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers (1927) The Prince of Adventurers (1927) Napoleon
49. Ivan Mozzhukhin
Actor | L'angoissante aventure
Ivan Mozzhukhin was a legendary actor of Russian silent films, who escaped execution by the Soviet Red Army and had a stellar career in Europe.
He was born Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin on September 26, 1889, in the village of Kondol, Saratov province, Russia (now Penza province, Russia). His father was ...
Actor (1924) Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers (1926) The Living Dead Man (1927) The Prince of Adventurers
50. Alexandre Kamenka
Producer | Le brasier ardent
Alexandre Kamenka was born on May 18, 1888 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a producer and production manager, known for Le brasier ardent (1923), Le lion des Mogols (1924) and Grisou (1938). He died on December 3, 1969 in Paris, France.
Producer (1924) Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers (1928) The Horse Ate the Hat (1931) À Nous la Liberté (1936) The Lower Depths
51. Fernand Léger
Art_department | L'inhumaine
Fernand Léger was born on February 4, 1881 in Argentan, Orne, France. He was a director and actor, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Ballet mécanique (1924) and Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). He was married to Nadia Leger and Jeanne-Augustine Lohy. He died on August 17, 1955 in Gif-sur-Yvette...
Director (Assistant Director) (1924) Ballet mécanique (1924) The Inhuman Woman
52. Raymond Bernard
Director | Anne-Marie
Raymond Bernard was born on October 10, 1891 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Anne-Marie (1936), Adieu... Chérie (1946) and La maison vide (1921). He was married to Jeanne Salley. He died on December 11, 1977 in Paris, France.
Director (1924) Miracle of the Wolves (1927) The Chess Player
53. Marie Glory
Actress | Monte Cristo
Marie Glory was born on March 3, 1905 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France. She was an actress, known for Monte Cristo (1929), La femme idéale (1934) and ...And God Created Woman (1956). She died on January 24, 2009 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Actress (1924) Miracle of the Wolves (1928) L'Argent (1929) Autour de l'argent (1956) ...And God Created Woman
54. Édith Jéhanne
Actress | Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney
Édith Jéhanne was born on February 9, 1899 in Châteauroux, Indre, France. She was an actress, known for The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Tarakanova (1930) and The Chess Player (1927). She died on June 14, 1949 in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.
Actress (1924) Miracle of the Wolves (1927) The Chess Player (1927) The Love of Jeanne Ney
55. Henri Rabaud
Composer | Le miracle des loups
Henri Rabaud was born on November 10, 1873 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Miracle of the Wolves (1924), The Chess Player (1927) and Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995). He was married to Marguerite Mascart. He died on September 11, 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, ...
Composer (1924) Miracle of the Wolves (1927) The Chess Player
56. René Clair
Writer | Le silence est d'or
René Clair was born on November 11, 1898 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Man About Town (1947), Beauties of the Night (1952) and The Grand Maneuver (1955). He was married to Bronia Clair. He died on March 15, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Director (Writer) (1924) Entr'acte (1924) At 3:25 (1928) The Horse Ate the Hat (1930) Miss Europe (1931) Le Million (1931) À Nous la Liberté
57. Francis Picabia
Actor | Entr'acte
Francis Picabia, one of the founders of Dada movement who owned a massive collection of vintage cars and yachts, was known for his witty art, absurdist humour, and made innovative artworks that are now selling for as much as $1,600,000.
He was born François Marie Martinez Picabia on January 22, 1879...
Painter (Actor) (1924) Entr'acte
58. Erik Satie
Soundtrack | Badlands
Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866 in Honfleur, Calvados, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Badlands (1973), The November Man (2014) and Mr. Nobody (2009). He died on July 1, 1925 in Paris, France.
Composer (1924) Entr'acte (1963) The Fire Within (1968) The Immortal Story
59. Alberto Cavalcanti
Director | O Canto do Mar
Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...
Director (Assistant Director, Art Director) (1924) The Inhuman Woman (1926) Nothing But Time (1926) The Living Dead Man
60. Gloria Swanson
Actress | Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois. She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Her personality and antics in private definitely made her a favorite with America's movie-going public. Gloria certainly didn't intend on ...
Actress (1925) Madame Sans-Gêne (USA)
61. Henri de la Falaise
Director | Legong: Dance of the Virgins
Henri de la Falaise was a French aristocrat brought to America after meeting and falling in love with Gloria Swanson while working as her interpreter on Madame Sans-Gêne (1925). A World War I veteran of the French army, a few years prior to his work on the film he had been awarded the Croix ...
Director (Translator) (1925) Madame Sans-Gêne (USA)
62. Henri Fescourt
Director | Les misérables
Henri Fescourt was born on November 23, 1880 in Béziers, Hérault, France. He was a director and writer, known for Les misérables (1925), Monte Cristo (1929) and Mathias Sandorf (1921). He died on August 9, 1966 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Director (1925) Barricade (Les Miserables Part II)
63. Jean Renoir
Writer | La règle du jeu
Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...
Director (Actor) (1926) Nana (1931) Baby's Laxative (1931) La Chienne (1932) Night at the Crossroads (1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1935) Toni (1936) The Lower Depths (1936) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1937) La Grande Illusion (1938) La Marseillaise (1938) La Bête Humaine (1939) The Rules of the Game (1946) A Day in the Country (1950) The Ways of Love (1951) The River (USA | India) (1952) The Golden Coach (1955) French Cancan (1959) Experiment in Evil (1959) Picnic on the Grass (1968) Louis Lumière
64. Catherine Hessling
Actress | Nana
Catherine Hessling was born on June 22, 1900 in Moronvilliers, Marne, France. She was an actress, known for Nana (1926), Little Red Riding Hood (1930) and Whirlpool of Fate (1925). She was married to Jean Renoir. She died on September 28, 1979 in La-Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France.
Actress (Model) (1926) Nana
65. Alexandre Koubitzky
Actor | Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
Alexandre Koubitzky was an actor, known for Napoleon (1927). He died on January 13, 1937 in Moscow, USSR.
Singer (Actor) (1927) Napoleon (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte
66. Acho Chakatouny
Actor | Michel Strogoff
Acho Chakatouny was born in 1895 in Yerevan, Russian Empire [now Armenia]. He was an actor and director, known for Michel Strogoff (1926), L'Atalante (1934) and Napoleon (1927). He died on April 4, 1957 in Paris, France.
Actor (1927) Napoleon (1934) L'Atalante (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte
67. Annabella
Actress | Le million
At age 16, Annabella was chosen by Abel Gance to appear in Napoleon (1927). In the 30s, she became a star of French movies. She made movies in numerous other countries, before being called to Hollywood in 1938, where she met and married Tyrone Power. She remained in the USA until 1947. Then she ...
Actress (1927) Napoleon (1931) Le Million (1935) La bandera (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1938) Hotel du Nord (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
68. Harry Krimer
Actor | Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
Harry Krimer was born on March 10, 1896 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Napoleon (1927), Les vagabonds magnifiques (1931) and Le billet de logement (1932). He died on January 4, 1991 in Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Actor (1927) Napoleon (1935) Napoléon Bonaparte (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995– ) The Music of Light
69. Simon Feldman
Simon Feldman was born on July 15, 1890 in Odessa, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for Fantômas (1932), Napoleon (1927) and Le prince charmant (1925). He died on November 6, 1992 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Technical Director (1927) Napoleon (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995– ) The Music of Light
70. Viktor Tourjansky
Director | I cosacchi
Viktor Tourjansky was a Russian film director who emigrated after the communist revolution of 1917, and worked in France, Germany, USA, UK, and Italy.
He was born Viacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhanski on March 4, 1891, in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (now Kiyiv, Ukraine). Studied painting and art ...
Assistant Director (Director) (1927) Napoleon
71. Jean Dréville
Director | Kampen om tungtvannet
The great neglected independent film-maker Jean Dreville had no formal education - he was educated privately at home. He showed an early interest in photography and art and his first jobs were as photographer, poster designer and draftsman. His break into films came in 1928 when he made his first ...
Director (Actor) (1927) Napoleon (1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1929) Autour de l'argent (1952) The Seven Deadly Sins (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995– ) The Music of Light
72. Pierre Blanchar
Actor | Crime et châtiment
Pierre Blanchar was born on June 30, 1892 in Philippeville, Constantine, France [now Skikda, Algeria]. He was an actor and director, known for Crime and Punishment (1935), The Man from Nowhere (1937) and Life Dances On (1937). He was married to Marthe Vinot. He died on November 21, 1963 in Suresnes...
Actor (1927) The Chess Player (1933) Zero for Conduct (1937) Christine (1946) Pastoral Symphony
73. Germaine Dulac
Director | Âme d'artiste
The daughter of a cavalry captain, she was raised by a grandmother in Paris, where she studied various forms of art with an emphasis on music and the opera. In 1905 she married engineer-novelist Marie-Louis Albert-Dulac and under his influence veered toward journalism. As one of the leading radical...
Director (Film Critic) (1928) The Seashell and the Clergyman (1929) Arabesque
74. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
Director (Writer) (1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1932) Vampyr
75. Maria Falconetti
Actress | La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Renée Jeanne or Maria Falconetti, born in Pantin (not in Sermano, Corsica, as many film dictionaries wrongly attest) on July 21, 1892 and died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1946, is a French actress of theater and cinema. Joining the troupe of the Odeon theater in 1916, she made her debut in "...
Actress (1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc
76. Hermann Warm
Production_designer | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Art director and painter, trained in stage design in Düsseldorf and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Hermann Warm was an important figure in the German expressionist cinema of the 1920's and early 30's. He was instrumental in changing traditional concepts of using painted backdrops in favour of...
Set Designer (1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1932) Vampyr
77. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
Director (Assistant Director, Writer) (1928) The Fall of the House of Usher (1929) Un Chien Andalou (1930) L'Age d'Or (1956) That Is the Dawn (1967) Belle de Jour (1969) The Milky Way (1972) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1974) The Phantom of Liberty (1977) That Obscure Object of Desire
78. Pierre Alcover
Actor | Liliom
It was not obvious from the start that Pierre Alcover, a hefty John Blunt, would become a stage and movie actor. In fact he seems to be one of his kind for they are few those who made the transition from warehouseman at Les Halles (Paris' traditional central market) to winner of a first prize at ...
Actor (1928) L'Argent (1929) Autour de l'argent (1931) Le Million (1937) Christine
79. Brigitte Helm
Actress | Metropolis
Born in Berlin, Germany. After her role in Metropolis (1927) she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was An Ideal Spouse (1935) which was released in 1935. She died on June 11th 1996 of heart failure in...
Actress (1928) L'Argent (1929) Autour de l'argent
80. Charles A. Lindbergh
Writer | The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh was born on February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), Coast to Coast in 48 Hours (1929) and 40,000 Miles with Lindbergh (1928). He was married to Anne Morrow Lindbergh. He died on August 26, 1974 in Kipahulu, Maui, ...
Aviator 1927 Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic (1928) L'Argent
81. Salvador Dalí
Art_department | Spellbound
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did ...
Painter (1929) Un Chien Andalou (1930) L'Age d'Or
82. Marco de Gastyne
Director | Douchka
Marco de Gastyne was born on July 15, 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Douchka (1964), Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1928) and La châtelaine du Liban (1926). He was married to Choura Milena and Mary Christian. He died on November 8, 1982 in Paris, France.
Director (1929) Saint Joan the Maid
83. Jean Vigo
Writer | Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège
Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people ...
Director (1930) À Propos de Nice (1933) Zero for Conduct (1934) L'Atalante
84. Boris Kaufman
Cinematographer | On the Waterfront
Boris Kaufman, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shot Jean Vigo's oeuvre and helped introduce a neo-realistic style into American films, was born on August 24, 1897, in Bialystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. The youngest son of librarians, the Soviet directors Denis Kaufman (a.k.a. ...
Cameraman (1930) À Propos de Nice (1933) Zero for Conduct (1934) L'Atalante
85. Jean Cocteau
Writer | La Belle et la Bête
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...
Director (Poet, Writer, Actor) (1930) The Blood of a Poet (1945) Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1946) Beauty and the Beast (1950) Orpheus (1951) Venom and Eternity (1954) Bonnes vacances (1960) Testament of Orpheus (1988) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
86. Dita Parlo
Actress | La grande illusion
Dita Parlo was born on September 4, 1906 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), L'Atalante (1934) and Melody of the Heart (1929). She was married to Frank Guetal. She died on December 12, 1971 in Courbevoie...
Actress (1930) Au bonheur des dames (1934) L'Atalante (1937) La Grande Illusion (1950) Justice Is Done
87. Augusto Genina
Director | Cielo sulla palude
Augusto Genina was born on January 28, 1892 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Cielo sulla palude (1949), Bengasi (1942) and L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940). He was married to Carmen Boni. He died on September 18, 1957 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Director (1930) Miss Europe
88. Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Director | Komödianten
Georg Wilhelm Pabst is considered by many to be the greatest director of German cinema, in his era. He was especially appreciated by actors and actresses for the humane way in which he treated them. This was in contrast to some of his contemporaries, such as Arnold Fanck, who have been ...
Writer (1930) Miss Europe (1931) Comradeship (Germany)
89. Louise Brooks
Actress | Die Büchse der Pandora
Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Dancers (which was how she left Kansas and went to New York) and then with George White's Scandals ...
Actress (1930) Miss Europe
90. Ewald André Dupont
Writer | Varieté
German film director E.A. Dupont was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before breaking into the film industry. He wrote several screenplays and worked as a story editor for Richard Oswald before turning to directing in 1917. Over the next eight years Dupont became a respected exponent ...
Director (1930) Atlantis (England, UK)
91. Charles Rosher
Cinematographer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic ...
Cameraman (1930) Atlantis (England, UK)
92. Claude Heymann
Writer | Victor
Claude Heymann was born on November 13, 1907 in Paris, France. He was a writer and production manager, known for Victor (1951), Aux frontières du possible (1971) and Adieu Paris (1952). He died on April 13, 1994 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Writer (Assistant Director, Art Director, Actor) (1930) L'Age d'Or (1931) La Chienne (1946) A Day in the Country (1960) Shoot the Piano Player (1995) Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
93. Alexandre Trauner
Art_director | The Apartment
Hungarian-born Alexandre Trauner came to Paris in 1929 to escape the anti-semitic Horty regime in his native country, and to paint. Instead, he became involved in the film industry as an assistant to the famous art director Lazare Meerson. Influenced by cubism and impressionism, he embraced the ...
Set Designer (Art Director) (1930) L'Age d'Or (1935) Carnival in Flanders (1938) Hotel du Nord (1938) Port of Shadows (1939) Le Jour Se Leve (1943) Carnaval zonder masker (1945) Children of Paradise (1952) The Seven Deadly Sins (1955) Rififi (1985) Subway
94. Jacques Prévert
Writer | Les enfants du paradis
Jacques Prévert was born on February 4, 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Children of Paradise (1945), The Score (2001) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). He was married to Janine Tricotet and Simone Dienne. He died on April 11,...
Writer (Actor) (1930) L'Age d'Or (1934) L'Atalante (1936) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1938) Port of Shadows (1939) Le Jour Se Leve (1943) Carnaval zonder masker (1945) Children of Paradise
95. Henri Chretien
A French inventor, Professor Henri Chretien developed the anamorphic wide-screen process that resulted in CinemaScope. Although similar systems had been patented earlier, Chretien developed his during World War I for use in tank periscopes. In the 1920s he applied it to film in Construire un feu (...
Inventor of Hypergonar (Anamorphic Widescreen) (1930) Construire un feu
96. Jack London
Writer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Jack London was the best-selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time.
He was born John Griffith Chaney, on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco. He was raised by his mother Flora Wellman and his stepfather John London (he didn't know who his father was until his adulthood). ...
Writer (1930) Construire un feu
97. Vanda Gréville
Actress | Der Ball
Vanda Gréville was born on January 10, 1908 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Der Ball (1931), Le bal (1931) and A Gentleman of Paris (1931). She was married to Edmond T. Gréville. She died on December 26, 1997 in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England, UK.
Actress (1931) End of the World (1931) Le Million
98. Georges Feydeau
Writer | Ooh La La!
Georges Feydeau was born on December 8, 1862 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Ooh La La! (1968), The Girl from Maxim's (1933) and La vida en broma (1950). He was married to Marie-Anne Carolus-Duran. He died on June 5, 1921 in Paris, France.
Writer (1931) Baby's Laxative (1949) Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!
99. Lilian Harvey
Actress | Die Drei von der Tankstelle
Lilian Harvey was born on January 19th, 1906 in London. Her mother was English and her father was German. When she was eight her family moved to Berlin shortly before the outbreak of WW1. She spent much of the war at school in Switzerland where she broadened her knowledge of languages and classical...
Actress (1931) Le congrès s'amuse (Germany)
100. René Fauchois
Actor | Remontons les Champs-Élysées
René Fauchois was born on August 31, 1882 in Rouen, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) and Mlle. Desiree (1942). He was married to Camille Jourlait, Lucie Caffaret and Odette Lévi. He died on February 10...
Actor (1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning
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