Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 23, 1888
Died
Nov 26, 1979
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
58 titles
Marcel L'Herbier
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
La Féerie des fantasmes
Director
What the East Wind Saw
Director
The Father of the Girl
Director
The Last Days of Pompeii
Dialogue
Stolen Affections
Screenplay
Queen's Necklace
Director
Happy Go Lucky
Director
The Bohemian Life
Director
The Honorable Catherine
Director
Fantastic Night
Director
Foolish Husbands
Director
Comedy of Happiness
Writer
La Mode rêvée
Director
Savage Brigade
Writer
Cordial Agreement
Director
Land of Fire
Director
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Director
Rasputin
Director
Forfaiture
Director
The Citadel of Silence
Director
Nights of Fire
Director
The Great Temptation
Director
Children's Corner
Director
The New Men
Director
The Imperial Road
Scenario Writer
Sacrifice of Honor
Director
The Adventurer
Director
Le Bonheur
Writer
The Scandal
Screenplay
The Hawk
Writer
Scent of the Woman in Black
Director
Zuiderzeewerken
Producer
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Director
La Femme d'une nuit
Director
Illegitimate Child
Director
Princely Nights
Director
Autour de l'argent
Himself
L'Argent
Director
Little Devil May Care
Director
Le Vertige
Director
The Late Mathias Pascal
Director
The Inhuman Woman
Scenario Writer
The Gallery of Monsters
Producer
The Flood
Producer
News Item
Producer
Le marchand de plaisirs
Art Direction
Résurrection
Writer
Don Juan et Faust
Director
El Dorado
Director