Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).
In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
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Movies (58)
Cavalcanti
2026 · Self (archive footage)
La Féerie des fantasmes
1975 · Director
What the East Wind Saw
1954 · Director
The Father of the Girl
1953 · Director, Screenplay
The Last Days of Pompeii
1950 · Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
Stolen Affections
1948 · Director, Screenplay
Queen's Necklace
1946 · Director
Happy Go Lucky
1946 · Director
The Bohemian Life
1945 · Director
The Honorable Catherine
1943 · Director
Fantastic Night
1942 · Director, Adaptation
Foolish Husbands
1941 · Director, Writer
Comedy of Happiness
1940 · Director, Writer
La Mode rêvée
1940 · Director, Screenplay
Savage Brigade
1939 · Director, Writer
Cordial Agreement
1939 · Director
Land of Fire
1939 · Director
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938 · Director, Writer
Rasputin
1938 · Director, Screenplay
Forfaiture
1937 · Director
The Citadel of Silence
1937 · Director
Nights of Fire
1937 · Director, Screenplay
The Great Temptation
1936 · Director, Writer
Children's Corner
1936 · Director
The New Men
1936 · Director, Screenplay
The Imperial Road
1935 · Director, Scenario Writer
Sacrifice of Honor
1935 · Director, Screenplay
The Adventurer
1934 · Director
Le Bonheur
1934 · Director, Writer
The Scandal
1934 · Screenplay, Director
The Hawk
1933 · Writer, Director
Scent of the Woman in Black
1931 · Director, Screenplay
Zuiderzeewerken
1930 · Producer
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930 · Director, Scenario Writer
La Femme d'une nuit
1930 · Director, Scenario Writer
Illegitimate Child
1930 · Director
Princely Nights
1929 · Director, Screenplay
Autour de l'argent
1929 · Himself
L'Argent
1928 · Director, Writer
Little Devil May Care
1928 · Director, Screenplay
Le Vertige
1926 · Director, Writer
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925 · Director, Writer
The Inhuman Woman
1924 · Director, Scenario Writer
The Gallery of Monsters
1924 · Producer, Art Direction
The Flood
1924 · Producer, Art Direction
News Item
1923 · Producer, Art Direction
Le marchand de plaisirs
1923 · Producer, Art Direction
Résurrection
1923 · Writer, Director
Don Juan et Faust
1922 · Director, Screenplay
El Dorado
1921 · Director, Writer
Prometheus, Banker
1921 · Director, Writer
Villa Destin
1921 · Director, Scenario Writer
The Man of the Sea
1920 · Director, Writer, Editor
Le Carnaval des vérités
1920 · Director, Writer
Le Bercail
1919 · Director
Rose-France
1919 · Director, Writer
Infatuation
1918 · Scenario Writer, Writer
The Blindness of Youth
1917 · Screenplay