Renée Carl
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
Pépé le Moko
as La Mère TartePépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers....
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Fantômas
as Lady BelthamA 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 MauguiotThe 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 ThénardierIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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La maison des lions
as uncreditedMadam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory....
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The Trust, or The Battles for Money
as Juliette MichaudA young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his...
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The Legend of the Spinner
as uncreditedThe 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 La MuseThe goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of...
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as La dame vraiment bienRenée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes...
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Custody of the Child
as MotherMelodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears....
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The Nativity
as uncreditedA silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.
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The Obsession
as Mme TrévouxA 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 uncreditedThis short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his...
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The Defect
as Anna Moulin, dite NanaLA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable...
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Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
as uncreditedFramed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an...
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The Guardian of Camargue
as uncreditedThis charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand...
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The Bachelor Girl
as Mme. AmbratMonique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a...
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L'Intruse
as La BreschardA child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
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Jimmy Pulls The Trigger
as Bébé motherA short from Feuillade's Bébé series
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The Agony of Byzantium
as The Wife of Emperor ConstantineThe fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine...
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La vengeance du sergent de la ville
as uncreditedA police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to...
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Le monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
as uncreditedAt 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 uncreditedDirected by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.
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The Dwarf
as La mèreA manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and...
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The Cavalry
as Mme de MorangesA French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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The Seneschal's Diamond
as uncreditedA prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two...
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Severo Torelli
as Dona PiaPisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his...
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The Fault of Another
as uncreditedA silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks
as uncreditedAt the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.
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In the Land of Lions
as La MorenaA French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
as uncreditedSome amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan...
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At the Hour of Dawn
as uncreditedWhen a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the...
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