Philippe Hériat
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
Napoleon
as Antoine Christophe SalicetiA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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Divine
as Lutuf-AllahA country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad...
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Saint Joan the Maid
as Gilles de RaysThis relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor...
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L'Inhumaine
as Djorah de NopurA famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men,...
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The Late Mathias Pascal
as L'aide assesseurMathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible...
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The Flood
as Alban PerrinIn a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot....
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El Dorado
as Joao, le bouffonIn Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling...
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Nothing But Time
as uncreditedThe life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged,...
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Filippo, sculptor-loverFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
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The Gallery of Monsters
as La géanteThe whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel...
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Bonaparte et la révolution
as uncreditedAbel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent...
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The Man of the Sea
as Le protecteurNolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His...
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Sea Fever
as uncreditedThe ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a...
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Miracle of the Wolves
as uncreditedKing Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his...
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Don Juan et Faust
as WagnerCrazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
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Napoléon Bonaparte
as SalicettiA second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
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Prometheus, Banker
as uncreditedA vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.
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Rothchild
as DiégoAn ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his...
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Le Carnaval des vérités
as uncreditedComtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan,...
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