- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- December 8, 1861
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- January 21, 1938
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come. A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Tri…
Filmography
movieSatans Sacrilegious Saga
2025 · Devil
movieAlcoléa & cie Documentary
2024
movieMéliès: Tales of Terror
2021 · The Melomaniac, Director, Producer
movieThe Méliès Mystery
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieEl hombre que quiso ser Segundo
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Extraordinary Voyage
2011 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieThe Magic of Méliès
1997 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
movieCinematógrafo 1900
1979 · Self (archive footage)
movieORG
1979 · Thanks
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Self (archive footage)
movieViolons d'Ingres
1939 · Himself (archive footage), Additional Photography
movieGala Méliès
1929 · Himself, Director
movieThe Voyage of M. Bourrichon
1913 · Director
movieThe Knight of the Snow
1912 · Devil, Director
movieCinderella or The Glass Slipper
1912 · Director
movieThe Conquest of the Pole
1912 · Le professeur Mabouloff, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Producer
movieThe Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen
1911 · Director
movieThe Diabolical Church Window
1911 · , Director
movieWhimsical Illusions
1909 · The Magician, Production Design, Screenplay, Producer, Director
movieThe Diabolic Tenant
1909 · Le locataire diabolique, Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Director
movieThe Spider and the Butterfly
1909 · Director
movieThe Doctor's Secret
1909 · , Director
The Living Doll
1908 · Director
movieThe Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess
1908 · Director
moviePharmaceutical Hallucinations
1908 · Director
The Fortune Favors the Brave
1908 · Gnome, Director
Hypnotist's Revenge
1908 · Director
Moitié de polka
1908 · Director
The Fairy Dragonfly
1908 · Director
Incident from Don Quixote
1908 · Director
The Duke's Good Joke
1908 · Director
movieA 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
movieGrandmother's Tale and Child's Dream
1908 · Director
The Magic of Catchy Songs
1908 · Director
Fun With the Bridal Party
1908 · Director
movieFrench Cops Learning English
1908 · The Police Inspector, Director
Two Talented Vagabonds
1908 · Director
Oriental Black Art
1908 · Director
The Hotel Mix-Up
1908 · Director
movieTribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler
1908 · The Roman, Director
Two Crazy Bugs
1908 · Director
The Indian Sorcerer
1908 · The Fakir, Director
movieLes malheurs d'un photographe
1908 · Director
movieHis First Job
1908 · Director
The Forester's Remedy
1908 · Director
movieLes infortunes des patineurs
1908 · Passerby, Director
The Mystery of the Garrison
1908 · Director
movieNot Guilty
1908 · The Old Farmer, Director
movieBuncoed 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
movieThe Broken Violin
1908 · Director
Up-to-Date Clothes Cleaning
1908 · Director
Pranks With a Fake Python
1908 · Director
movieSideshow Wrestlers
1908 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieThe Miser
1908 · Director
movieThe New Lord of the Village
1908 · Le fantôme de César, Director
Curiosity Punished
1908 · Director
A Fake Diamond Swindler
1908 · Director
A Lover's Hazing
1908 · Director
A Mistaken Identity
1908 · Director
movieIn the Barber Shop
1908 · , Director
movieThe Prophetess of Thebes
1908 · Director
movieLong Distance Wireless Photography
1908 · , Director
A Night With Masqueraders in Paris
1908 · Director
movieThe Dream of an Opium Fiend
1908 · Director
Why That Actor Was Late
1908 · Director
movieThe Genii of Fire
1908 · Director
movieJustinian's Human Torches
1908 · Director
movieHumanity Through the Ages
1908 · Director
movieExcursion to the Moon
1908 · Original Film Writer
L'agent gelé
1908 · Director
movieThe Good Luck of a 'Souse'
1907 · Le commissaire de police, Director
movieThe King and the Jester
1907 · Tribolet, Director
movieIn the Bogie Man's Cave
1907 · Director
movieThe Knight of Black Art
1907 · Director
movieSightseeing Through Whisky
1907 · Director
Bakers in Trouble
1907 · Director
movieSatan in Prison
1907 · Satan, Director
movieGood 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
movieThe Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
1907 · Professor of Astronomy, Director
movieDelirium in a Studio
1907 · Ali Barbouyou, Director
Drink! A Great Temperance Story
1907 · Director
A New Death Penalty
1907 · Director
movieTunneling the English Channel
1907 · , Director, Producer, Production Design
movieHow Bridget's Lover Escaped
1907 · Director
movieThe Skipping Cheese
1907 · Director
movie20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1907 · , Director
movieRogues' Tricks
1907 · Director
A Mischievous Sketch
1907 · Director
movieRobert Macaire and Bertrand
1906 · Director
movieThe Witch
1906 · The Fairy Carabosse, Production Design, Director, Producer, Writer
movieThe Mysterious Retort
1906 · , Director
A Seaside Flirtation
1906 · Director
movieThe Merry Frolics of Satan
1906 · Satan, Screenplay, Director, Production Design, Producer
movieSoap Bubbles
1906 · Director
movieA Roadside Inn
1906 · Drunk Traveler, Director
A Spiritualist Meeting
1906 · Director
moviePunch and Judy
1906 · Director
movieA Desperate Crime
1906 · , Director
movieThe Hilarious Posters
1906 · The Bill Poster, Director, Producer
movieThe Tramp and the Mattress Makers
1906 · Director
Who Looks, Pays!
1906 · Director
Old and New Style Conjurers
1906 · Director
movieThe Luny Musician
1906 · Director
movieJack the Chimney Sweep
1906 · Director
movieA Mix-Up in the Gallery
1906 · Director
movieThe Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
1905 · , Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Director
movieThe Scheming Gambler's Paradise
1905 · Director
Life-Saving Up-to-Date
1905 · Director
The Angler's Nightmare, or A Policeman's Troubles
1905 · Director
movieRip's Dream
1905 · Rip Van Winkle, Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Director
movieAn Improvised Fireworks Display
1905 · Director
movieUlysses and the Giant Polyphemus
1905 · Ulysses (uncredited), Director
movieAn Adventurous Automobile Trip
1905 · Director
movieThe Enchanted Sedan Chair
1905 · Director
The Tower of London
1905 · Director
movieA Crazy Composer
1905 · Director
movieThe Palace of the Arabian Nights
1905 · The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited), Director, Editor, Production Design, Producer
The Chloroform Fiends
1905 · Director
The Venetian Looking-Glass
1905 · Director
Mr. Dauber and the Whimsical Picture
1905 · Director
movieA Mesmerian Experiment
1905 · , Director
movieThe Lilliputian Minuet
1905 · , Director
movieThe Magic Dice
1905 · Director
movieThe Black Imp
1905 · , Director, Producer
The King of Sharpshooters
1905 · Director
movieThe Living Playing Cards
1905 · The Magician, Director
movieThe Christmas Angel
1904 · The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller, Director, Producer
The Grotto of Surprises
1904 · Director
movieThe Firefall
1904 · Satan, Director
movieThe Wandering Jew
1904 · , Director, Producer
movieThe Impossible Voyage
1904 · Мабулофф, 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
movieThe Mermaid
1904 · , Director
The Impossible Dinner
1904 · Director
movieThe Devilish Plank
1904 · , Director
movieThe Cook in Trouble
1904 · , Director
movieThe Wonderful Living Fan
1904 · , Director
movieTchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
1904 · , Director
The Fake Russian Prophet
1904 · Director
movieFaust and Marguerite
1904 · Méphistophélès, Director
Benvenuto Cellini or A Curious Evasion
1904 · Director
movieA Miracle Under the Inquisition
1904 · Director
movieThe Imperceptible Transmutations
1904 · Prince, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
movieThe Clockmaker's Dream
1904 · , Director
movieThe Untamable Whiskers
1904 · Man with whiskers, Director
movieThe Fugitive Apparitions
1904 · , Director
movieThe Bewitched Trunk
1904 · Director
The Invisible Siva
1904 · Director
movieEvery Man His Own Cigar Lighter
1904 · , Director
movieA Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
1904 · The Magician / The Double, Director
movieTit for Tat
1904 · , Director
movieThe Wonderful Rose Tree
1904 · Director
movieA Moonlight Serenade
1903 · , Director
movieThe Terrible Turkish Executioner
1903 · The Executioner, Director
movieFaust in the Underworld
1903 · Mephistopholes, Director
movieThe Ballet Master's Dream
1903 · , Director
movieThe Magic Lantern
1903 · , Director
movieComical Conjuring
1903 · Director
movieAlcofribas, The Master Magician
1903 · , Director, Screenplay
movieExtraordinary Illusions
1903 · , Director
movieBob Kick, the Mischievous Kid
1903 · , Director
movieJack Jags and Dum Dum
1903 · Director
movieTen Ladies in an Umbrella
1903 · Director
movieJupiter's Thunderballs
1903 · , Director
movieApparitions
1903 · , Director
movieThe Infernal Cauldron
1903 · Devil, Production Design, Screenplay, Producer, Director
movieThe Kingdom of the Fairies
1903 · Принц Бель-Азор, Director, Screenplay, Production Design, Producer
movieThe Monster
1903 · The priest, Director
movieThe Melomaniac
1903 · , Director
movieA Spiritualist Photographer
1903 · Director
movieThe Oracle of Delphi
1903 · , Director
movieThe Witch's Revenge
1903 · Director
movieThe Mystical Flame
1903 · , Director
movieThe Drawing Lesson
1903 · Director
movieThe Inn Where No Man Rests
1903 · Director
movieThe Enchanted Well
1903 · Director
movieLes Mousquetaires de la reine
1903 · Director
movieThe Mysterious Box
1903 · , Director
movieThe Infernal Cake-Walk
1903 · Devil, Director
movieMisfortune Never Comes Alone
1903 · Lamplighter, Director
Beelzebub's Daughters
1903 · , Director
movieThe Marvellous Wreath
1903 · , Director
The Enchanted Basket
1903 · , Director
movieRobinson Crusoe
1902 · Robinson Crusoé, Producer, Production Design, Screenplay, Director
movieGulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
1902 · Gulliver, Director, Writer
movieSure Cure for Indigestion
1902 · Doctor, Director
Drunkard and Inventor
1902 · Director
movieAn Impossible Balancing Feat
1902 · The Magician, Director, Story, Producer, Special Effects
Marvelous Suspension
1902 · Director
movieThe Human Fly
1902 · The Hindoo Magician, Director, Producer
movieThe Coronation of Edward VII
1902 · Director
movieThe Treasures of Satan
1902 · , Director
movieThe Magician and the Imp
1902 · Director
movieA Trip to the Moon
1902 · Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Production Design, Editor
The Catastrophe of the Balloon "Le Pax"
1902 · Director
movieThe Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
1902 · Director
movieThe Microscopic Dancer
1902 · Director
movieThe Prolific Magical Egg
1902 · , Director
movieThe Colonel's Shower Bath
1902 · Director
Wine Cellar Burglars
1902 · Director
Cabinet Trick of the Davenport Brothers
1902 · Director
movieThe Dwarf and the Giant
1901 · , Director
movieThe Man with the Rubber Head
1901 · Аптекар / Гумова голова, Director, Producer, Special Effects
movieThe Devil and the Statue
1901 · , Director
movieHat of Many Surprises
1901 · , Director
movieBluebeard
1901 · Barbe-bleue, Adaptation, Production Design, Producer, Director
The Sacred Fountain
1901 · Director
movieOff to Bedlam
1901 · Director
movieThe 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
movieThe Bachelor's Paradise
1901 · Director
A Maiden's Paradise
1901 · The Wizard, Director
movieThe Magician's Cavern
1901 · , Director
movieLittle Red Riding Hood
1901 · Director
movieAn Extraordinary Dislocation
1901 · Director
movieThe Triple Headed Lady
1901 · , Director
movieThe Brahmin and the Butterfly
1901 · The brahmin, Director
movieThe Astronomer's Dream
1900 · Астроном, Director, Editor, Production Designer, Special Effects, Screenplay, Producer
The Unexpected Bath
1900 · Director
movieThe Christmas Dream
1900 · Beggar, Director
movieJoan of Arc
1900 · Père de Jeanne, Production Design, Producer, Screenplay, Director
movieThe Artist and the Dummy
1900 · Artiste, Director
movieThe One-Man Band
1900 · All the members of the orchestra, Director, Producer, Special Effects
movieThe Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
1900 · Wrestler, Director
movieGoing to Bed Under Difficulties
1900 · The Man, Director
Up-to-Date Spiritualism
1900 · Le comique excentrique, Director
movieThe Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy
1900 · Prince, Producer, Writer, Director
movieThe Magic Book
1900 · The Magician, Director
movieA Fantastical Meal
1900 · The Man, Director
movieThe Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
1900 · Conjurer, Director
Crying and Laughing
1900 · Director
movieAddition and Subtraction
1900 · Director
movieThe Cook's Revenge
1900 · Director
movieThe Rajah's Dream or The Bewitched Wood
1900 · Director
movieEight Girls in a Barrel
1900 · Director
movieHow He Missed His Train
1900 · Director
movieWhat Is Home Without the Boarder
1900 · Director
movieThe Doctor and the Monkey
1900 · Director
The Two Blind Men
1900 · Director
movieThe 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
movieCooks fight
1900 · Director
movieThe Flea
1900 · Director
movieThe Coup of Pere Francois
1900 · Director
movieThe Bath
1900 · Director
movieThe Stick
1900 · Director
movieExtravagant Struggles
1899 · Director
movieThe Dreyfus Affair
1899 · Fernand Labori, Director
movieCinderella
1899 · le gnome de la pendule / le suisse à l'entrée de l'église, Producer, Production Design, Director
movieDreyfus Leaving the Lycée for Jail
1899 · Director
movieThe Degradation of Dreyfus
1899 · Director
movieDevil's Island - Within the Palisade
1899 · Director
movieSummoning the Spirits
1899 · , Director
The Human Pyramid
1899 · , Director
Murder Will Out
1899 · Director
movieA Midnight Episode
1899 · The Sleeping Man (uncredited), Producer, Director
movieThe Devil in a Convent
1899 · The Devil, Director
movieAn Up-to-Date Conjurer
1899 · Magician, Director
movieThe Mysterious Knight
1899 · Le chevalier mystère, Director
movieThe Mysterious Portrait
1899 · L'illusioniste, Director
movieCleopatra's Tomb
1899 · un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre, Director
movieThe Pillar of Fire
1899 · , Production Design, Screenplay, Producer, Director
movieSuicide of Colonel Henry
1899 · Director
movieThe Attempt Against the Life of Maitre Labori
1899 · Director
movieThe Fight of Reporters
1899 · Director
movieDreyfus Put in Irons
1899 · Director
movieDreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes
1899 · Director
movieLanding of Dreyfus at Quiberon
1899 · Director
movieThe Court Martial at Rennes
1899 · Director
movieDreyfus Court Martial - Arrest Of Dreyfus
1899 · Director
Fantastic Dining Room
1899 · Director
Lightning Change Artist
1899 · Director
movieChrist Walking on Water
1899 · Director
movieThe Clown and Automobile
1899 · Director
Le conférencier distrait
1899 · Director
The Cave of the Demons
1898 · Director
movieThe Four Troublesome Heads
1898 · Фокусник, Director, Producer, Special Effects, Editor
Guerre de Cuba et l'explosion du Maine à La Havane
1898 · Director
movieThe Temptation of St. Anthony
1898 · Saint Antoine, Director
moviePygmalion and Galatea
1898 · Pygmalion, Director
movieThe Magician
1898 · Le Sculpteur, Director
movieThe Famous Box Trick
1898 · The Magician, Director
movieThe Bridegroom's Dilemma
1898 · Le marié, Director
movieDivers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
1898 · Director
moviePanorama from Top of a Moving Train
1898 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
movieAdventures of William Tell
1898 · Director
movieThe Damnation of Faust
1898 · Director
Visite de l'épave du Maine
1898 · Director
movieA Woman Surprised
1898 · Director
movieCarrefour de l'opéra
1898 · Director
A Novice at X-Rays
1898 · Director
movieBois de Boulogne
1897 · Director
movieThe Hallucinated Alchemist
1897 · Director
On the Roof
1897 · Director
movieThe Last Cartridges
1897 · Director
Faust and Marguerite
1897 · Méphistophélès, Director
movieLe château hanté
1897 · Mephisto, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design
movieThe Bewitched Inn
1897 · The Traveler, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Production Design
movieNaval Combat in Greece
1897 · The Captain, Director
movieBetween 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
movieGugusse and the Automaton
1897 · Gugusse, Director
movieAfter the Ball
1897 · Director
movieThe Surrender of Tournavos
1897 · Director
movieThe Devil's Laboratory
1897 · Director
movieBoxing Match
1897 · Director
movieAn Irritable Model
1897 · Director
movieFencing at the Joinville School
1897 · Director
The Grasshopper and the Ant
1897 · Director
movieA Terrible Night (Remake)
1897 · Director
movieD. Devant, Conjurer
1897 · Director
A Twentieth Century Surgeon
1897 · Director
movieA Nightmare
1896 · Man, Director, Production Design, Producer, Editor
movieLe manoir du diable
1896 · Мефістофель, Director, Producer, Production Design, Writer
movieConjuring
1896 · Himself, Director
moviePlaying Cards
1896 · Un joueur de cartes, Director, Writer
movieA Terrible Night
1896 · L'homme qui essaie de dormir, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Director
movieThe Vanishing Lady
1896 · Фокусник, Director, Production Design, Producer, Editor
moviePost No Bills
1896 · Director
movieArrival of a Train at Vincennes Station
1896 · Director
movieArrival of a Train (Joinville Station)
1896 · Director
movieA Serpentine Dance
1896 · Director
Watering the Flowers
1896 · Director
movieLes tribulations d'un concierge
1896 · Director
movieMiss de Vère - English Jig
1896 · Director
movieConjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds
1896 · Director
movieA Soldier's Unlucky Salutation
1896 · Director
Georges Méliès: The First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)
— · Various Roles
An Angelic Servant
— · Director