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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.
Birth Name
Emile Pierre Chautard
Born
Wednesday, 07 September 1864
Died
Tuesday, 24 April 1934
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Desert Command | Gen. Pelletier | 1946 |
Viva Villa! | General Told to Leave Room | 1934 |
Riptide | Doctor | 1934 |
Come On, Marines! | Priest | 1934 |
Wonder Bar | Pierre - the Concierge | 1934 |
Man of Two Worlds | Natkusiak | 1934 |
Gallant Lady | French Hotel Clerk | 1934 |
Design for Living | Train Conductor | 1933 |
The Solitaire Man | French Hotel Clerk | 1933 |
The Devil's in Love | Father Carmion | 1933 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Desert Command | Gen. Pelletier | 1946 |
Viva Villa! | General Told to Leave Room | 1934 |
Riptide | Doctor | 1934 |
Come On, Marines! | Priest | 1934 |
Wonder Bar | Pierre - the Concierge | 1934 |
Man of Two Worlds | Natkusiak | 1934 |
Gallant Lady | French Hotel Clerk | 1934 |
Design for Living | Train Conductor | 1933 |
The Solitaire Man | French Hotel Clerk | 1933 |
The Devil's in Love | Father Carmion | 1933 |
The Three Musketeers | Gen. Pelletier [Ch. 1] | 1933 |
The California Trail | Don Marco Ramirez | 1933 |
L'Amour guide | M. Prias | 1933 |
Rasputin and the Empress | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1932 |
Blonde Venus | Chautard, French Nightclub Manager | 1932 |
The Man from Yesterday | Priest | 1932 |
Shanghai Express | Major Lenard | 1932 |
Cock of the Air | French Ambassador | 1932 |
Le procès de Mary Dugan | 1931 | |
The Yellow Ticket | Headwaiter | 1931 |
The Common Law | Doorman | 1931 |
Big House | Pop | 1931 |
La piste des géants | Padre | 1931 |
Le petit café | Philibert | 1931 |
Morocco | French General | 1930 |
Just Like Heaven | Jacques Dulac / Dulac | 1930 |
L'énigmatique Monsieur Parkes | Sylvester Corbett | 1930 |
A Man from Wyoming | 1930 | |
Estrellados | 1930 | |
Sweeping Against the Winds | 1930 | |
Free and Easy | Undetermined Role | 1930 |
Tiger Rose | Frenchman | 1929 |
South Sea Rose | Rosalie's Uncle | 1929 |
Times Square | David Lederwitski | 1929 |
Marianne | Père Joseph | 1929 |
House of Horror | Old Miser | 1929 |
Adoration | Murajev | 1928 |
Lilac Time | The Mayor | 1928 |
Caught in the Fog | The Old Man | 1928 |
Out of the Ruins | Père Gilbert | 1928 |
His Tiger Wife | Stage Manager | 1928 |
The Noose | Priest | 1928 |
Now We're in the Air | Monsieur Chelaine | 1927 |
Whispering Sage | José Arastrade | 1927 |
Upstream | Campbell-Mandare | 1927 |
Blonde or Brunette | Father-in-Law | 1927 |
7th Heaven | Father Chevillon, the Priest / Father Chevillon | 1927 |
The Flaming Forest | André Audemard | 1926 |
Upstage | Performer | 1926 |
Bardelys the Magnificent | Anatol | 1926 |
Broken Hearts of Hollywood | Director | 1926 |
Paris at Midnight | Père Goriot | 1926 |
A Girl's Folly | Actor | 1917 |
Protéa | Ministre de CEltie | 1913 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Daytime Wives | 1923 |
Youth to Youth | 1922 |
The Glory of Clementina | 1922 |
Living Lies | 1922 |
The Marionettes | 1922 |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room | 1919 |
Eyes of the Soul | 1919 |
The Marriage Price | 1919 |
Paid in Full | 1919 |
His Parisian Wife | 1919 |
A Daughter of the Old South | 1918 |
Her Final Reckoning | 1918 |
The Ordeal of Rosetta | 1918 |
The House of Glass | 1918 |
The Eternal Temptress | 1917 |
The Heart of Ezra Greer | 1917 |
Under False Colors | 1917 |
The Fires of Youth | 1917 |
The Family Honor | 1917 |
The Web of Desire | 1917 |
The Man Who Forgot | 1917 |
All Man | 1916 |
The Heart of a Hero | 1916 |
Friday the 13th | 1916 |
Sudden Riches | 1916 |
Human Driftwood | 1916 |
The Little Dutch Girl | 1915 |
The Boss | 1915 |
The Arrival of Perpetua | 1915 |
Le faiseur de fous | 1914 |
Le roman d'un caissier | 1914 |
The Black Sheep; or, the Fight for an Inheritance | 1913 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Youth to Youth | 1922 |
The Mystery of the Yellow Room | 1919 |