Émile Chautard
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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
Credits
Morocco (1930)
as French General (uncredited)
Wonder Bar (1934)
as Pierre (uncredited)
Design for Living (1933)
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
Shanghai Express (1932)
as Major Lenard
7th Heaven (1927)
as Father Chevillon
Adoration (1928)
as Murajev
Blonde Venus (1932)
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
as Anatol
Marianne (1929)
as Père Joseph
Just Like Heaven (1930)
as Dulac
The Three Musketeers (1933)
as Gen. Pelletier
The Little Cafe (1931)
as Philibert
Blonde or Brunette (1927)
as Father-in-Law
My Official Wife (1926)
as Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
as Headwaiter
The Noose (1928)
as Priest
The Flaming Forest (1926)
as André Audemard
The Green Specter (1930)
as Abdoul
The Common Law (1931)
as Doorman (uncredited)
Upstream (1927)
as Campbell-Mandare
Lilac Time (1928)
as The Mayor
The Solitaire Man (1933)
as French Hotel Clerk
The Devil's in Love (1933)
as Father Carmion
Caught in the Fog (1928)
as The Old Man
His Tiger Lady (1928)
as Stage Manager
Mysterious Mr. Parkes (1930)
as Sylvester Corbett
Échec au roi (1930)
as King Eric VIII
Man of Two Worlds (1934)
as Natkusiak
Cock of the Air (1932)
as French Ambassador
The Man from Yesterday (1932)
as Priest
The California Trail (1933)
as Don Marco Ramirez
Now We're in the Air (1927)
as Monsieur Chelaine
The Big House (1931)
as Pop
House of Horror (1929)
as Old Miser
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Frenchman
The Road to Reno (1931)
as Andre
The Love Mart (1927)
as Louis Frobelle
A Man from Wyoming (1930)
as French Mayor
The Big Trail (1931)
as Padre
Paris at Midnight (1926)
as Père Goriot
Counter-Investigation (1930)
as O'Brien
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1931)
Actor
The Olympic Hero (1928)
as Grandpa Brown
Estrellados (1930)
Actor
Times Square (1929)
Actor
Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)
as Director
The son of the other (1932)
Actor
Out of the Ruins (1928)
as Père Gilbert
Sweeping Against the Winds (1930)
Actor
The bluffer (1932)
as Oscar Brown
Whispering Sage (1927)
as José Arastrade