Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 15, 1898
Died
Oct 10, 1971
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
28 titles
Philippe Hériat
Biography
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling. Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel. In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Known For
Filmography
Bonaparte et la révolution
Salicetti (archive footage)
Rosie!
Theatre Play
Fruits of Summer
Writer
Lucrezia Borgia
Filippo, sculptor-lover
Divine
Lutuf-Allah
Napoléon Bonaparte
Salicetti
Rothchild
Diégo
Weaker Sex
Détresse
Jean Mérit
Napoleon at St. Helena
General Bertrand
Saint Joan the Maid
Gilles de Rays
Change of Heart
Ralph
Sea Fever
Napoleon
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
La jalousie du barbouillé
La chaussée des géants
Nothing But Time
The Late Mathias Pascal
L'aide assesseur
The Inhuman Woman
Djorah de Nopur
Miracle of the Wolves
The Gallery of Monsters
La géante
The Flood
Alban Perrin
Le marchand de plaisirs
Don Juan et Faust
Wagner
El Dorado
Joao, le bouffon
Prometheus, Banker
The Man of the Sea
Le protecteur
Le Carnaval des vérités