Léon Mathot

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

1978

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Self (archive footage)

Tv
1964

Pour le plaisir

Self

Tv
1953

My Childish Father

Director

Movie
1950

La Danseuse de Marrakech

Director

Movie
1949

L'Homme aux mains d'argile

Director

Movie
1948

Le Dolmen tragique

Director

Movie
1947

La Dernière chevauchée

Director

Movie
1946

Alert Nights

Director

Movie
1945

La Route du bagne

Director

Movie
1943

L'Homme sans nom

Director

Movie
1942

Forte tête

Director

Movie
1942

Cartacalha, reine des gitans

Director

Movie
1941

Fromont Young and Risler Elder

Director

Movie
1940

Hangman's Noose

Director

Movie
1939

Sacred Woods

Director

Movie
1939

Immediate Call

Director

Movie
1939

Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

Abbé Gaillard

Movie
1938

The Rebel

Director

Movie
1938

Chéri-Bibi

Director

Movie
1937

Aloha, the Song of the Islands

Director

Movie
1937

L'Ange du foyer

Director

Movie
1937

A Man to Kill

Director

Movie
1936

Wolves Between Them

Director

Movie
1935

The Mascot

Director

Movie
1935

Count Obligado

Director

Movie
1934

Bouboule 1er, roi nègre

Director

Movie
1933

Naked as a Worm

Director

Movie
1932

Kiss Me

Director

Movie
1931

Bouboule's Gang

Director

Movie
1931

Passport 13.444

Movie
1931

The shelter

Director

Movie
1930

The house of La Fleche

Movie
1930

L'instinct

Jean Bernon

Movie
1930

The mystery of the pink villa

Langeac

Movie
1929

L'appassionata

Director

Movie
1928

In the Shadow of the Harem

L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser

Movie
1927

Celle qui domine

Director

Movie
1927

Rue de la Paix

Ally - un millionnaire

Movie
1927

Yasmina

Movie
1926

The Cradle of God

Movie
1925

A Night of Romance

Antonio Scapa

Movie
1925

Der Maler und sein Modell

Movie
1925

The Devil in the City

Marc Herner

Movie
1923

Cœur fidèle

Jean

Movie
1923

The Red Inn

Prosper Magnan

Movie
1923

Vent debout

Movie
1922

Être ou ne pas être

Movie
1922

Jean d'Agrève

Jean d'Agrève

Movie
1922

L'Empereur des pauvres

Marc Anavan

Movie
1921

Blanchette

Movie