- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 23, 1888
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- November 26, 1979
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 suc…
Filmography
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1978 · Self, Self (archive footage)
movieLa Féerie des fantasmes
1975 · Director
movieWhat the East Wind Saw
1954 · Director
movieThe Father of the Girl
1953 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Last Days of Pompeii
1950 · Dialogue, Screenplay, Director
movieStolen Affections
1948 · Screenplay, Director
movieQueen's Necklace
1946 · Director
movieHappy Go Lucky
1946 · Director
movieThe Bohemian Life
1945 · Director
movieThe Honorable Catherine
1943 · Director
movieFantastic Night
1942 · Director, Adaptation
movieFoolish Husbands
1941 · Director, Writer
movieComedy of Happiness
1940 · Writer, Director
movieLa Mode rêvée
1940 · Director, Screenplay
movieSavage Brigade
1939 · Writer, Director
movieCordial Agreement
1939 · Director
movieLand of Fire
1939 · Director
movieAdrienne Lecouvreur
1938 · Director, Writer
movieRasputin
1938 · Director, Screenplay
movieForfaiture
1937 · Director
movieThe Citadel of Silence
1937 · Director
Nights of Fire
movieNights of Fire
1937 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Great Temptation
1936 · Director, Writer
Children's Corner
movieChildren's Corner
1936 · Director
movieThe New Men
1936 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Imperial Road
1935 · Scenario Writer, Director
movieSacrifice of Honor
1935 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Adventurer
1934 · Director
movieLe Bonheur
1934 · Writer, Director
movieThe Scandal
1934 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Hawk
1933 · Writer, Director
movieScent of the Woman in Black
1931 · Director, Screenplay
movieZuiderzeewerken
1930 · Producer
movieThe Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930 · Director, Scenario Writer
movieLa Femme d'une nuit
1930 · Director, Scenario Writer
movieIllegitimate Child
1930 · Director
moviePrincely Nights
1929 · Director, Screenplay
movieAutour de l'argent
1929 · Himself
movieL'Argent
1928 · Director, Writer
movieLittle Devil May Care
1928 · Director, Screenplay
movieLe Vertige
1926 · Director, Writer
movieThe Late Mathias Pascal
1925 · Director, Writer
movieThe Inhuman Woman
1924 · Scenario Writer, Director
movieThe Gallery of Monsters
1924 · Producer, Art Direction
movieThe Flood
1924 · Producer, Art Direction
movieNews Item
1923 · Producer, Art Direction
movieLe marchand de plaisirs
1923 · Art Direction, Producer
Résurrection
movieRésurrection
1923 · Writer, Director
movieDon Juan et Faust
1922 · Director, Screenplay
movieEl Dorado
1921 · Director, Writer
moviePrometheus, Banker
1921 · Writer, Director
Villa Destin
movieVilla Destin
1921 · Director, Scenario Writer
movieThe Man of the Sea
1920 · Director, Writer, Editor
movieLe Carnaval des vérités
1920 · Director, Writer
movieLe Bercail
1919 · Director
movieRose-France
1919 · Director, Writer
movieInfatuation
1918 · , Scenario Writer
movieThe Blindness of Youth
1917 · Screenplay