Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 05, 1886
Died
Mar 06, 1968
Place of Birth
Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Credits
65 titles
Léon Mathot
Biography
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.
Known For
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Pour le plaisir
Self
My Childish Father
Director
La Danseuse de Marrakech
Director
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Director
Le Dolmen tragique
Director
La Dernière chevauchée
Director
Alert Nights
Director
La Route du bagne
Director
L'Homme sans nom
Director
Forte tête
Director
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Director
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Director
Hangman's Noose
Director
Sacred Woods
Director
Immediate Call
Director
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Abbé Gaillard
The Rebel
Director
Chéri-Bibi
Director
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Director
L'Ange du foyer
Director
A Man to Kill
Director
Wolves Between Them
Director
The Mascot
Director
Count Obligado
Director
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
Director
Naked as a Worm
Director
Kiss Me
Director
Bouboule's Gang
Director
Passport 13.444
The shelter
Director
The house of La Fleche
L'instinct
Jean Bernon
The mystery of the pink villa
Langeac
L'appassionata
Director
In the Shadow of the Harem
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
Celle qui domine
Director
Rue de la Paix
Ally - un millionnaire
Yasmina
The Cradle of God
A Night of Romance
Antonio Scapa
Der Maler und sein Modell
The Devil in the City
Marc Herner
Cœur fidèle
Jean
The Red Inn
Prosper Magnan
Vent debout
Être ou ne pas être
Jean d'Agrève
Jean d'Agrève
L'Empereur des pauvres
Marc Anavan
Blanchette