Émile Chautard
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.
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Movies (102)
Wonder Bar
1934 · Pierre (uncredited)
Man of Two Worlds
1934 · Natkusiak
Design for Living
1933 · Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Solitaire Man
1933 · French Hotel Clerk
The Devil's in Love
1933 · Father Carmion
The Three Musketeers
1933 · Gen. Pelletier
The California Trail
1933 · Don Marco Ramirez
The bluffer
1932 · Oscar Brown
Blonde Venus
1932 · Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
The Man from Yesterday
1932 · Priest
The son of the other
1932
Shanghai Express
1932 · Major Lenard
Cock of the Air
1932 · French Ambassador
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
The Yellow Ticket
1931 · Headwaiter
The Road to Reno
1931 · Andre
The Common Law
1931 · Doorman (uncredited)
The Big House
1931 · Pop
The Big Trail
1931 · Padre
The Little Cafe
1931 · Philibert
Échec au roi
1930 · King Eric VIII
Counter-Investigation
1930 · O'Brien
Morocco
1930 · French General (uncredited)
Just Like Heaven
1930 · Dulac
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
1930 · Sylvester Corbett
A Man from Wyoming
1930 · French Mayor
Estrellados
1930
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930
The Green Specter
1930 · Abdoul
Tiger Rose
1929 · Frenchman
Times Square
1929
Marianne
1929 · Père Joseph
House of Horror
1929 · Old Miser
Adoration
1928 · Murajev
Lilac Time
1928 · The Mayor
Caught in the Fog
1928 · The Old Man
Out of the Ruins
1928 · Père Gilbert
The Olympic Hero
1928 · Grandpa Brown
His Tiger Lady
1928 · Stage Manager
The Noose
1928 · Priest
The Love Mart
1927 · Louis Frobelle
Now We're in the Air
1927 · Monsieur Chelaine
7th Heaven
1927 · Father Chevillon
Whispering Sage
1927 · José Arastrade
Upstream
1927 · Campbell-Mandare
Blonde or Brunette
1927 · Father-in-Law
The Flaming Forest
1926 · André Audemard
My Official Wife
1926 · Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 · Anatol
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926 · Director
Paris at Midnight
1926 · Père Goriot
Untamed Youth
1924 · Director
Daytime Wives
1923 · Director
Forsaking All Others
1922 · Director
Youth to Youth
1922 · Director, Producer
The Glory of Clementina
1922 · Director
Living Lies
1922 · Director
The Black Panther's Cub
1921 · Director
Whispering Shadows
1921 · Director
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1919 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Eyes of the Soul
1919 · Director
The Marriage Price
1919 · Director
Paid in Full
1919 · Director
His Parisian Wife
1919 · Director
Out of the Shadow
1919 · Director
Under the Greenwood Tree
1918 · Director
A Daughter of the Old South
1918 · Director
The Ordeal of Rosetta
1918 · Director
The House of Glass
1918 · Director
The Marionettes
1918 · Director
The Eternal Temptress
1917 · Director
The Heart of Ezra Greer
1917 · Director
Magda
1917 · Director
Under False Colors
1917 · Director
The Fires of Youth
1917 · Director
Forget-Me-Not
1917 · Director
The Family Honor
1917 · Director
The Web of Desire
1917 · Director
A Hungry Heart
1917 · Director
The Man Who Forgot
1917 · Director, Scenario Writer
All Man
1916 · Director
The Heart of a Hero
1916 · Director
Friday the 13th
1916 · Director
Sudden Riches
1916 · Director
Love's Crucible
1916 · Director
The Rack
1915 · Director
The Little Dutch Girl
1915 · Director
The Boss
1915 · Director
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915 · Director
A Cashier's Novel
1914 · Director
The Horrors of War
1914 · Director
Chicot the Jester
1913 · Director
La duchesse des Folies-Bergères
1913 · Director
The Eaglet
1913 · Director
Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913 · Director
The Spoiled Sparrows
1913 · Director
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913 · Director
The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1912 · Scenario Writer, Director
La fleur des neiges
1911 · Director, Screenplay
Hearts and Eyes
1911 · Director, Writer
Dog and Wolf
1911 · Scenario Writer, Director
Eugénie Grandet
1910 · Director
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