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Date de naissance

19 February 1873, Lunel, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Date de mort

26 February 1925, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Nom de naissance

Louis Jean Feuillade

Mini Biographie

Prolific director of over 700 films, most of them short or medium-length. 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. Feuillade's work was largely comprised of film series; his first series, begun in 1910 and numbering 15 episodes, was LE FILM ESTHÉTIQUE, a financially unsuccessful attempt at "high-brow" cinema. More popular was La vie telle qu'elle est (1911) which moved from the costume pageantry of his earlier work to a more realistic, if somewhat melodramatic, depiction of contemporary life. Feuillade also directed scores of short films featuring the characters Bébé and René Poyen. Feuillade's most successful feature-length serials were Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913), which chronicled the diabolical exploits of the "emperor of crime," and Les vampires (1915), which trailed a criminal gang led by Irma Vep (Musidora) and was noted for its imaginative use of locations and lyrical, almost surreal style.

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Marié(e) à

Lugane	(1921 - ?)
Léontine Jaujou	(1895 - ?)

Anecdotes

Father-in-law of Maurice Champreux and grandfather of Jacques Champreux.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 319-325. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

He was the most prolific film director in history, not counting television directors.

Nîmes, June 17th 1900: Had his first article published by the newspaper Torero.

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