Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 06, 1864
Died
Apr 24, 1934
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
102 titles
Émile Chautard
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Wonder Bar
Pierre (uncredited)
Man of Two Worlds
Natkusiak
Design for Living
Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Solitaire Man
French Hotel Clerk
The Devil's in Love
Father Carmion
The Three Musketeers
Gen. Pelletier
The California Trail
Don Marco Ramirez
The bluffer
Oscar Brown
Blonde Venus
Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
The Man from Yesterday
Priest
The son of the other
Shanghai Express
Major Lenard
Cock of the Air
French Ambassador
The Trial of Mary Dugan
The Yellow Ticket
Headwaiter
The Road to Reno
Andre
The Common Law
Doorman (uncredited)
The Big House
Pop
The Big Trail
Padre
The Little Cafe
Philibert
Échec au roi
King Eric VIII
Counter-Investigation
O'Brien
Morocco
French General (uncredited)
Just Like Heaven
Dulac
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Sylvester Corbett
A Man from Wyoming
French Mayor
Estrellados
Sweeping Against the Winds
The Green Specter
Abdoul
Tiger Rose
Frenchman
Times Square
Marianne
Père Joseph
House of Horror
Old Miser
Adoration
Murajev
Lilac Time
The Mayor
Caught in the Fog
The Old Man
Out of the Ruins
Père Gilbert
The Olympic Hero
Grandpa Brown
His Tiger Lady
Stage Manager
The Noose
Priest
The Love Mart
Louis Frobelle
Now We're in the Air
Monsieur Chelaine
7th Heaven
Father Chevillon
Whispering Sage
José Arastrade
Upstream
Campbell-Mandare
Blonde or Brunette
Father-in-Law
The Flaming Forest
André Audemard
My Official Wife
Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Bardelys the Magnificent
Anatol
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Director