Émile Chautard
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.
Design for Living
as Train Conductor (uncredited)An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Blonde Venus
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a...
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Morocco
as French General (uncredited)The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly...
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Shanghai Express
as Major LenardA beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a...
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The Road to Reno
as AndreJackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff -...
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7th Heaven
as Father ChevillonIn 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been...
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House of Horror
as Old MiserHouse of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen....
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Lilac Time
as The MayorIn France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good...
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Man of Two Worlds
as NatkusiakA British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
as AnatolRafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who...
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Paris at Midnight
as Père GoriotIn a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and...
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Wonder Bar
as Pierre (uncredited)Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with...
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A Man from Wyoming
as French MayorA story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World...
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Just Like Heaven
as DulacTobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus...
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The Noose
as PriestIn this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing...
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The Devil's in Love
as Father CarmionThe French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a...
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The Flaming Forest
as André AudemardBased on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming...
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Estrellados
as uncreditedA matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is...
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The Common Law
as Doorman (uncredited)When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent...
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Now We're in the Air
as Monsieur ChelaineWally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation...
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The Solitaire Man
as French Hotel ClerkAn almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are...
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The Big Trail
as PadreA large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The...
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Caught in the Fog
as The Old ManWealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles...
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Cock of the Air
as French AmbassadorAn opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
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Upstream
as Campbell-MandareA silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the...
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My Official Wife
as Count Orloff, Hélène's FatherA glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of...
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The Yellow Ticket
as HeadwaiterA young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a...
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Marianne
as Père JosephAt the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though...
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The Green Specter
as AbdoulA group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being...
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The Love Mart
as Louis FrobelleVictor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a...
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The Little Cafe
as PhilibertYvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a...
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The Three Musketeers
as Gen. PelletierTom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going...
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The Big House
as PopFrench-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's...
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Whispering Sage
as José ArastradeThis silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron...
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The Man from Yesterday
as PriestA woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor....
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
as DirectorVirginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a...
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Adoration
as MurajevBillie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in...
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Blonde or Brunette
as Father-in-LawAdolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
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The California Trail
as Don Marco RamirezSanta Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the...
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Out of the Ruins
as Père GilbertHe hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the...
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The bluffer
as Oscar BrownParallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on...
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