Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, est un réalisateur de films français et illusionniste. Ayant choisi la prestidigitation comme profession, il profite d'une donation de son père, industriel de la chaussure, pour devenir propriétaire et directeur en 1888 du théâtre Robert-Houdin, en sommeil depuis la mort du célèbre illusionniste.
Le 28 décembre 1895, il découvre avec émerveillement les images photographiques animées lors de la première représentation publique à Paris du Cinématographe par les frères Lumière et propose même de racheter le brevet de la machine. Un refus poli mais narquois le pousse à se tourner vers un ami londonien, le premier réalisateur britannique, Robert W. Paul, qui lui fournit un mécanisme intermittent avec lequel il tourne son premier film en 1896, Une partie de cartes, réplique du même sujet réalisé par Louis Lumière.
La même année, avec l’Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin, il utilise pour la première fois en Europe le principe de l'arrêt de caméra, découverte américaine, qui lui assure un franc succès dans son théâtre où il mélange spectacles vivants et projections sur grand écran. Il fait alors de ses tableaux, ainsi qu'il appelle ses films, un nouveau monde illusoire et féerique, mettant à profit les dons de dessinateur et peintre que chacun a pu remarquer dans son adolescence.
Georges Méliès est considéré comme l'un des principaux créateurs des premiers trucages du cinéma, entre autres les surimpressions, les fondus, les grossissements et rapetissements de personnages. Il a également été le premier cinéaste à utiliser des storyboards. Il a fait construire le premier studio de cinéma créé en France dans la propriété de Montreuil dont son père l'avait également doté. Par son film sur l'affaire Dreyfus, il est aussi considéré comme le premier réalisateur d'un film politique dans l'histoire du cinéma.
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Films (364)
Satans Sacrilegious Saga
2025 · Devil
Alcoléa & cie Documentary
2024
Méliès: Tales of Terror
2021 · The Melomaniac, Director, Producer
The Méliès Mystery
2021 · Self (archive footage)
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
2014 · Self (archive footage)
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012 · Self (archive footage)
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Georges Méliès: The First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)
2008 · Various Roles, Director, Writer
The Magic of Méliès
1997 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Cinematógrafo 1900
1979 · Self (archive footage)
ORG
1979 · Thanks
Violons d'Ingres
1939 · Himself (archive footage), Additional Photography
Gala Méliès
1929 · Himself, Director
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
1913 · Director
The Knight of the Snow
1912 · Devil, Director
Cinderella or The Glass Slipper
1912 · Prince's Messenger, Director, Writer
The Conquest of the Pole
1912 · Le professeur Mabouloff, Screenplay, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen
1911 · Director
The Diabolical Church Window
1911 · Director
Hypnotist's Revenge
1909 · Director
Whimsical Illusions
1909 · The Magician, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design, Director
The Diabolic Tenant
1909 · Le locataire diabolique, Producer, Screenplay, Production Design, Director
The Spider and the Butterfly
1909 · Director
The Doctor's Secret
1909 · Director
The Living Doll
1908 · Director
The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
1908 · Director
Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
1908 · Director
The Fortune Favors the Brave
1908 · Gnome, Director
Moitié de polka
1908 · Director
The Fairy Dragonfly
1908 · Director
Incident from Don Quixote
1908 · Director
The Duke's Good Joke
1908 · Director
A Tricky Painter’s Fate
1908 · Director
Honeymoon in a Balloon
1908 · Director
The Wonderful Charm
1908 · Director
The Old Footlight Favorite
1908 · Director
The Helping Hand
1908 · Director
Grandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
1908 · Director
The Magic of Catchy Songs
1908 · Director
Fun With the Bridal Party
1908 · Director
French Cops Learning English
1908 · The Police Inspector, Director
Two Talented Vagabonds
1908 · Director
Les infortunes des patineurs
1908 · Passerby, Director
Oriental Black Art
1908 · Director
The Hotel Mix-Up
1908 · Director
Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler
1908 · The Roman, Director
Two Crazy Bugs
1908 · Director
The Indian Sorcerer
1908 · The Fakir, Director
Les malheurs d'un photographe
1908 · Director
His First Job
1908 · Director
The Forester's Remedy
1908 · Director
The Mystery of the Garrison
1908 · Director
Not Guilty
1908 · The Old Farmer, Director
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
1908 · Director
Mishaps of the New York-Paris Auto Race
1908 · Director
A Love Tragedy in Spain
1908 · Director
The Little Peace Maker
1908 · Director
Hunting the Teddy Bear
1908 · Director
The Broken Violin
1908 · Director
Up-to-Date Clothes Cleaning
1908 · Director
Pranks With a Fake Python
1908 · Director
Sideshow Wrestlers
1908 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Miser
1908 · Director
The New Lord of the Village
1908 · Le fantôme de César, Director
Why That Actor Was Late
1908 · Director
Why That Actor Was Late
1908 · Director
Curiosity Punished
1908 · Director
A Fake Diamond Swindler
1908 · Director
A Lover's Hazing
1908 · Director
A Mistaken Identity
1908 · Director
In the Barber Shop
1908 · Director
The Prophetess of Thebes
1908 · Director
Long Distance Wireless Photography
1908 · Director
A Night With Masqueraders in Paris
1908 · Director
The Dream of an Opium Fiend
1908 · Director
The Genii of Fire
1908 · Director
Justinian's Human Torches
1908 · Director
Humanity Through the Ages
1908 · Director
Excursion to the Moon
1908 · Original Film Writer
L'agent gelé
1908 · Director
The Good Luck of a 'Souse'
1907 · Le commissaire de police, Director
The King and the Jester
1907 · Tribolet, Director
In the Bogie Man's Cave
1907 · Director
The Knight of Black Art
1907 · Director
Sightseeing Through Whisky
1907 · Director
Bakers in Trouble
1907 · Director
Satan in Prison
1907 · Satan, Director
Good Glue Sticks
1907 · Director
Shakespeare Writing "Julius Caesar"
1907 · Director
A Forester Made King
1907 · Director
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1907 · Director
Chopin's Funeral March Burlesqued
1907 · Director
The Bewildering Cabinet
1907 · Director
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
1907 · Professor of Astronomy, Director
Delirium in a Studio
1907 · Ali Barbouyou, Director
Drink! A Great Temperance Story
1907 · Director
A New Death Penalty
1907 · Director
Tunneling the English Channel
1907 · Director, Producer, Production Design
How Bridget's Lover Escaped
1907 · Director
The Skipping Cheese
1907 · Director
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1907 · Director
Rogues' Tricks
1907 · Director
A Mischievous Sketch
1907 · Director
Robert Macaire and Bertrand
1906 · Director
The Witch
1906 · The Fairy Carabosse, Production Design, Director, Writer, Producer
The Mysterious Retort
1906 · Director
A Seaside Flirtation
1906 · Director
The Merry Frolics of Satan
1906 · Satan, Screenplay, Director, Producer, Production Design
Soap Bubbles
1906 · Director
A Roadside Inn
1906 · Drunk Traveler, Director
A Spiritualist Meeting
1906 · Director
Punch and Judy
1906 · Director
A Desperate Crime
1906 · Director
The Hilarious Posters
1906 · The Bill Poster, Director, Producer
The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
1906 · Director
Who Looks, Pays!
1906 · Director
Old and New Style Conjurers
1906 · Director
The Luny Musician
1906 · Director
Jack the Chimney Sweep
1906 · Director
A Mix-Up in the Gallery
1906 · Director
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
1905 · Producer, Screenplay, Production Design, Director
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
1905 · Director
Life-Saving Up-to-Date
1905 · Director
The Angler's Nightmare, or A Policeman's Troubles
1905 · Director
Rip's Dream
1905 · Rip Van Winkle, Producer, Screenplay, Production Design, Director
An Improvised Fireworks Display
1905 · Director
Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus
1905 · Ulysses (uncredited), Director
An Adventurous Automobile Trip
1905 · Director
The Enchanted Sedan Chair
1905 · Director
The Tower of London
1905 · Director
A Crazy Composer
1905 · Director
The Palace of the Arabian Nights
1905 · The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited), Director, Producer, Editor, Production Design
The Chloroform Fiends
1905 · Director
The Venetian Looking-Glass
1905 · Director
Mr. Dauber and the Whimsical Picture
1905 · Director
A Mesmerian Experiment
1905 · Director
The Lilliputian Minuet
1905 · Director
The Magic Dice
1905 · Director
The Black Imp
1905 · Director, Producer
The King of Sharpshooters
1905 · Director
The Living Playing Cards
1905 · The Magician, Director
The Christmas Angel
1904 · The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller, Director, Producer
The Grotto of Surprises
1904 · Director
The Firefall
1904 · Satan, Director
The Wandering Jew
1904 · Director, Producer
The Impossible Voyage
1904 · Mabouloff, Producer, Director, Screenplay, Production Design
A Wedding by Correspondence
1904 · Director
The Shadow Lady
1904 · Director
The Astonishing Frame
1904 · Director
Simple Simon's Surprise Party
1904 · Director
The Animated Costumes
1904 · Director
The Barber of Seville
1904 · Director
Uncle Rube's Birthday
1904 · Director
The Providence of the Waves
1904 · Director
The Mischances of a Drunkard
1904 · Director
The Mermaid
1904 · Director
The Impossible Dinner
1904 · Director
The Devilish Plank
1904 · Director
The Cook in Trouble
1904 · Director
The Wonderful Living Fan
1904 · Director
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
1904 · Director
The Fake Russian Prophet
1904 · Director
Faust and Marguerite
1904 · Méphistophélès, Director
Benvenuto Cellini or A Curious Evasion
1904 · Director
A Miracle Under the Inquisition
1904 · Director
The Imperceptible Transmutations
1904 · Prince, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
The Clockmaker's Dream
1904 · Director
The Untamable Whiskers
1904 · Man with whiskers, Director
The Fugitive Apparitions
1904 · Director
The Bewitched Trunk
1904 · Director
The Invisible Siva
1904 · Director
Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter
1904 · Director
A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
1904 · The Magician / The Double, Director
Tit for Tat
1904 · Director
The Wonderful Rose Tree
1904 · Director
A Moonlight Serenade
1903 · Director
The Terrible Turkish Executioner
1903 · The Executioner, Director
Faust in the Underworld
1903 · Mephistopholes, Director
The Ballet Master's Dream
1903 · Director
The Magic Lantern
1903 · Director
Comical Conjuring
1903 · Director
Alcofribas, The Master Magician
1903 · Director, Screenplay
Extraordinary Illusions
1903 · Director
Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid
1903 · Director
Jack Jags and Dum Dum
1903 · Director
Ten Ladies in an Umbrella
1903 · Director
Jupiter's Thunderballs
1903 · Director
Apparitions
1903 · Director
The Infernal Cauldron
1903 · Devil, Production Design, Screenplay, Producer, Director
The Kingdom of the Fairies
1903 · Принц Бель-Азор, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
The Monster
1903 · The priest, Director
The Melomaniac
1903 · Director
A Spiritualist Photographer
1903 · Director
The Oracle of Delphi
1903 · Director
The Witch's Revenge
1903 · Director
The Mystical Flame
1903 · Director
The Drawing Lesson
1903 · Director
The Inn Where No Man Rests
1903 · Director
The Enchanted Well
1903 · Director
Les Mousquetaires de la reine
1903 · Director
The Mysterious Box
1903 · Director
The Infernal Cake-Walk
1903 · Devil, Director
Misfortune Never Comes Alone
1903 · Lamplighter, Director
Beelzebub's Daughters
1903 · Director
The Marvellous Wreath
1903 · Director
The Enchanted Basket
1903 · Director
Robinson Crusoe
1902 · Robinson Crusoé, Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Director
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
1902 · Gulliver, Director, Writer
Sure Cure for Indigestion
1902 · Doctor, Director
Drunkard and Inventor
1902 · Director
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1902 · The Magician, Director, Story, Producer, Special Effects
Marvelous Suspension
1902 · Director
The Human Fly
1902 · The Hindoo Magician, Director, Producer
The Coronation of Edward VII
1902 · Director
The Treasures of Satan
1902 · Director
The Magician and the Imp
1902 · Director
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune, Producer, Production Design, Screenplay, Director, Editor
The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax"
1902 · Director
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
1902 · Director
The Microscopic Dancer
1902 · Director
The Prolific Magical Egg
1902 · Director
The Colonel's Shower Bath
1902 · Director
Wine Cellar Burglars
1902 · Director
Cabinet Trick of the Davenport Brothers
1902 · Director
The Dwarf and the Giant
1901 · Director
The Man with the Rubber Head
1901 · Аптекар / Гумова голова, Director, Special Effects, Producer
The Devil and the Statue
1901 · Director
The Elastic Battalion
1901 · Director
The Dream of a Hindu Beggar
1901 · Director
The Trials of a Schoolmaster
1901 · Director
The Dragon Fly
1901 · Director
A Phrenological Burlesque
1901 · Director
Hat of Many Surprises
1901 · Director
Bluebeard
1901 · Barbe-bleue / The Devil / Kitchen's assistant, Adaptation, Production Design, Producer, Director, Writer
The Sacred Fountain
1901 · Director
Off to Bedlam
1901 · Director
The Prince of Magicians
1901 · Excelsior, Director, Producer
A Good Trick
1901 · Director
Fun in Court
1901 · Director
Painless Dentistry
1901 · Director
The Temple of the Sun
1901 · Director
The Bachelor's Paradise
1901 · Director
A Maiden's Paradise
1901 · The Wizard, Director
The Magician's Cavern
1901 · Director
Little Red Riding Hood
1901 · Director
An Extraordinary Dislocation
1901 · Director
The Triple Headed Lady
1901 · Director
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
1901 · The brahmin, Director
The Astronomer's Dream
1900 · Астроном, Director, Editor, Production Designer, Special Effects, Screenplay, Producer
The Unexpected Bath
1900 · Director
The Christmas Dream
1900 · Beggar, Director
Joan of Arc
1900 · Père de Jeanne, Producer, Production Design, Screenplay, Director
The Artist and the Dummy
1900 · Artiste, Director
The One-Man Band
1900 · All the members of the orchestra, Director, Producer, Special Effects
The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
1900 · Wrestler, Director
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
1900 · The Man, Director
Up-to-Date Spiritualism
1900 · Le comique excentrique, Director
The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy
1900 · Prince, Producer, Writer, Director
A Fantastical Meal
1900 · The Man, Director
The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
1900 · Conjurer, Director
The Magic Book
1900 · The Magician, Director
Crying and Laughing
1900 · Director
Addition and Subtraction
1900 · Director
The Rajah's Dream or The Bewitched Wood
1900 · Director
The Cook's Revenge
1900 · Director
How He Missed His Train
1900 · Director
Eight Girls in a Barrel
1900 · Director
The Doctor and the Monkey
1900 · Director
What Is Home Without the Boarder
1900 · Director
The Two Blind Men
1900 · Director
The Misfortunes of an Explorer
1900 · Director
L'homme aux cent trucs
1900 · Writer, Director
China Versus Allied Powers
1900 · Director
Les miracles du Brahmine
1900 · Director
Cooks fight
1900 · Director
The Flea
1900 · Director
The Coup of Pere Francois
1900 · Director
The Bath
1900 · Director
The Stick
1900 · Director
Extravagant Struggles
1899 · Director
The Dreyfus Affair
1899 · Fernand Labori, Director
Cinderella
1899 · le gnome de la pendule / le suisse à l'entrée de l'église, Producer, Production Design, Director, Writer
The Degradation of Dreyfus
1899 · Director
Dreyfus Leaving the Lycée for Jail
1899 · Director
Devil's Island - Within the Palisade
1899 · Director
Summoning the Spirits
1899 · Director
The Human Pyramid
1899 · Director
Murder Will Out
1899 · Director
A Midnight Episode
1899 · The Sleeping Man (uncredited), Producer, Director
The Devil in a Convent
1899 · The Devil, Director
An Up-to-Date Conjurer
1899 · Magician, Director
The Mysterious Knight
1899 · Le chevalier mystère, Director
The Mysterious Portrait
1899 · L'illusioniste, Director
Cleopatra's Tomb
1899 · un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre, Director
The Pillar of Fire
1899 · Production Design, Screenplay, Producer, Director
Dreyfus Put in Irons
1899 · Director
Dreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes
1899 · Director
Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon
1899 · Director
Dreyfus Court Martial - Arrest Of Dreyfus
1899 · Director
Suicide of Colonel Henry
1899 · Director
The Fight of Reporters
1899 · Director
The Court Martial at Rennes
1899 · Director
The Attempt Against the Life of Maitre Labori
1899 · Director
Fantastic Dining Room
1899 · Director
Lightning Change Artist
1899 · Director
Christ Walking on Water
1899 · Director
The Clown and Automobile
1899 · Director
Le conférencier distrait
1899 · Director
The Cave of the Demons
1898 · Director
The Four Troublesome Heads
1898 · Фокусник, Director, Producer, Special Effects, Editor, Writer
Guerre de Cuba et l'explosion du Maine à La Havane
1898 · Director
The Temptation of St. Anthony
1898 · Saint Antoine, Director
Pygmalion and Galatea
1898 · Pygmalion, Director
The Magician
1898 · Le Sculpteur, Director
The Famous Box Trick
1898 · The Magician, Director
The Bridegroom's Dilemma
1898 · Le marié, Director
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
1898 · Director
Adventures of William Tell
1898 · Director
Panorama from Top of a Moving Train
1898 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
The Damnation of Faust
1898 · Director
Visite de l'épave du Maine
1898 · Director
A Woman Surprised
1898 · Director
Carrefour de l'opéra
1898 · Director
A Novice at X-Rays
1898 · Director
Bois de Boulogne
1897 · Director
The Hallucinated Alchemist
1897 · Director
On the Roof
1897 · Director
The Last Cartridges
1897 · Director
Faust and Marguerite
1897 · Méphistophélès, Director
Le château hanté
1897 · Mephisto, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
The Bewitched Inn
1897 · The Traveler, Director, Producer, Production Design, Editor, Screenplay
Naval Combat in Greece
1897 · The Captain, Director
Between Calais and Dover
1897 · The Man in the Checked Suit, Director
Dancing in a Harem
1897 · Director
A Funny Mahometan
1897 · The Funny Mahometan, Director
Gugusse and the Automaton
1897 · Gugusse, Director
After the Ball
1897 · Director
The Surrender of Tournavos
1897 · Director
The Devil's Laboratory
1897 · Director
An Irritable Model
1897 · Director
Boxing Match
1897 · Director
Fencing at the Joinville School
1897 · Director
The Grasshopper and the Ant
1897 · Director
A Terrible Night (Remake)
1897 · Director
D. Devant, Conjurer
1897 · Director
A Twentieth Century Surgeon
1897 · Director
Passage dangereux au Mont-Blanc
1897 · Director
A Nightmare
1896 · Man, Director, Producer, Editor, Production Design
Le manoir du diable
1896 · Мефістофель, Production Design, Director, Producer, Writer
Conjuring
1896 · Himself, Director
Playing Cards
1896 · Un joueur de cartes, Director, Writer
A Terrible Night
1896 · L'homme qui essaie de dormir, Producer, Director, Writer, Production Design
The Vanishing Lady
1896 · Фокусник, Director, Editor, Producer, Production Design
Post No Bills
1896 · Director
Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station
1896 · Director
A Serpentine Dance
1896 · Director
Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)
1896 · Director
Watering the Flowers
1896 · Director
Les tribulations d'un concierge
1896 · Director
Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds
1896 · Director
Miss de Vère - English Jig
1896 · Director
A Soldier's Unlucky Salutation
1896 · Director
An Angelic Servant
· Director
The Woes of Roller Skaters
· Director