Renée Carl

Born: 1875-06-10

Renée Carl (10 June 1875 – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France, and died in Paris, France. Between 1907 and 1937, she appeared in 186 films. A favorite of film director Louis Feuillade, she appeared in, at least, 150 films directed by him including the short Bébé and Bout de Zan comedies. Of the many characters she played in Feuillade's films, perhaps her most famous portrayal was that of Lady Beltham, mistress of the notorious Fantômas in the serial of the same name. She makes an uncredited appearance, as "L'Andalouse," in The Vampires. In 1922, she directed and starred in the film A Shout from the Abyss, also known as Un cri dans l'abîme. In a 1924 interview for Mon Ciné magazine, she stated that she was introduced to film-making through her friend Léonie Richard. Selected filmography


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Pépé le Moko

as La Mère Tarte
Released: 1937-01-28

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers....

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Fantômas

as Lady Beltham
Released: 1913-05-09

A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits...

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The Heart and the Money

as Madame Mauguiot
Released: 1912-08-23

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be...

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Les Misérables

as La Thénardier
Released: 1925-11-24

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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The Nativity

as uncredited
Released: 1910-11-11

A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.

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The Obsession

as Mme Trévoux
Released: 1912-10-16

A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to...

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The Colonel's Account

as uncredited
Released: 1907-07-23

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his...

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The Guardian of Camargue

as uncredited
Released: 1910-01-01

This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand...

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La maison des lions

as uncredited
Released: 1912-04-04

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory....

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Jimmy Pulls The Trigger

as Bébé mother
Released: 1912-01-01

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

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The Agony of Byzantium

as The Wife of Emperor Constantine
Released: 1913-10-24

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine...

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The Trust, or The Battles for Money

as Juliette Michaud
Released: 1911-11-09

A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his...

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La vengeance du sergent de la ville

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-31

A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to...

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A Very Fine Lady

as La dame vraiment bien
Released: 1908-10-07

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes...

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Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses

as uncredited
Released: 1909-11-08

Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an...

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The Bachelor Girl

as Mme. Ambrat
Released: 1923-09-01

Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a...

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The Defect

as Anna Moulin, dite Nana
Released: 1911-10-01

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable...

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The Legend of the Spinner

as La Muse
Released: 1908-03-12

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of...

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The Legend of the Spinner

as uncredited
Released: 1908-03-12

The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of...

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Custody of the Child

as Mother
Released: 1909-07-25

Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears....

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The Dwarf

as La mère
Released: 1912-09-12

A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and...

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The Cavalry

as Mme de Moranges
Released: 1914-01-01

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

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The Living Dead

as uncredited
Released: 1912-02-23

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L'Intruse

as La Breschard
Released: 1913-01-01

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

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The Open Eyes

as uncredited
Released: 1913-02-14

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The Seneschal's Diamond

as uncredited
Released: 1914-02-20

A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two...

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The Secret of Forçat

as uncredited
Released: 1913-03-14

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The Fault of Another

as uncredited
Released: 1910-12-02

A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.

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Le monsieur qui a mangé du taureau

as uncredited
Released: 1909-01-01

At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of...

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The Vipers

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-02

Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.

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Thaïs

as uncredited
Released: 1911-02-17

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Bébé Corrects His Father

as Mother
Released: 1911-11-10

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The Exodus

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-01

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The Legend of Prometheus

as uncredited
Released: 1908-09-07

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Severo Torelli

as Dona Pia
Released: 1914-05-15

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his...

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La cassette de l'émigrée

as Marie-Jeanne la lingère
Released: 1912-05-01

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Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks

as uncredited
Released: 1912-08-30

At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.

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In the Land of Lions

as La Morena
Released: 1912-05-15

A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.

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Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone

as uncredited
Released: 1914-01-16

Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan...

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Cursed Be the War

as uncredited
Released: 1910-05-01

A short silent film about war

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At the Hour of Dawn

as uncredited
Released: 1914-04-04

When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the...

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