Émile Chautard
Known for: Acting
Born: September 6, 1864
Died: April 24, 1934
Place of birth: Paris, France
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.
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Filmography
102 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
6.0
Wonder Bar
1934
6.5
Man of Two Worlds
1934
7.1
Design for Living
1933
7.0
The Solitaire Man
1933
6.0
The Devil's in Love
1933
5.7
The Three Musketeers
1933
7.5
The California Trail
1933
8.0
The bluffer
1932
6.8
Blonde Venus
1932
5.2
The Man from Yesterday
1932NR
The son of the other
1932
7.0
Shanghai Express
1932
7.7
Cock of the Air
1932
8.0
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
5.1
The Yellow Ticket
1931
4.0
The Road to Reno
1931
5.4
The Common Law
1931
7.0
The Big House
1931
7.0
The Big Trail
1931
7.5
The Little Cafe
19317.0
Échec au roi
1930
9.0
Counter-Investigation
1930
6.4
Morocco
1930
6.0
Just Like Heaven
1930
10.0
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
1930
8.0
A Man from Wyoming
1930
7.0
Estrellados
19307.0
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930
9.0
The Green Specter
1930
7.0
Tiger Rose
1929
7.0
Times Square
1929
6.5
Marianne
1929
10.0
House of Horror
1929
10.0
Adoration
1928
6.9
Lilac Time
1928
9.0
Caught in the Fog
1928
8.0
Out of the Ruins
19289.0
The Olympic Hero
1928
7.0
His Tiger Lady
1928
7.7
The Noose
1928
8.0
The Love Mart
1927
7.5
Now We're in the Air
1927
7.3
7th Heaven
1927
7.0
Whispering Sage
1927
6.1
Upstream
1927
10.0
Blonde or Brunette
1927
9.0
The Flaming Forest
1926
8.0
My Official Wife
1926
7.4
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926
7.3
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926
9.0
Paris at Midnight
1926
10.0
Untamed Youth
1924
6.5
Daytime Wives
1923
7.0
Forsaking All Others
1922
7.0
Youth to Youth
1922
8.0
The Glory of Clementina
1922
9.0
Living Lies
1922
7.0
The Black Panther's Cub
1921
6.5
Whispering Shadows
1921
6.5
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1919
9.0
Eyes of the Soul
1919
7.0
The Marriage Price
1919
8.0
Paid in Full
1919
10.0
His Parisian Wife
1919
7.0
Out of the Shadow
1919
NR
Under the Greenwood Tree
1918
NR
A Daughter of the Old South
1918
NR
The Ordeal of Rosetta
1918
NR
The House of Glass
1918
1.0
The Marionettes
1918
NR
The Eternal Temptress
1917NR
The Heart of Ezra Greer
1917
NR
Magda
1917
NR
Under False Colors
1917
7.0
The Fires of Youth
1917
NR
Forget-Me-Not
1917NR
The Family Honor
1917
NR
The Web of Desire
1917
NR
A Hungry Heart
1917
NR
The Man Who Forgot
1917
NR
All Man
1916
5.0
The Heart of a Hero
1916
NR
Friday the 13th
1916
NR
Sudden Riches
1916
NR
Love's Crucible
1916
NR
The Rack
1915
NR
The Little Dutch Girl
1915
NR
The Boss
1915NR
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915
6.5
A Cashier's Novel
191410.0
The Horrors of War
191410.0
Chicot the Jester
1913NR
La duchesse des Folies-Bergères
19137.0
The Eaglet
1913NR
Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913NR
The Spoiled Sparrows
19138.0
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913
6.0
The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1912NR
La fleur des neiges
1911
6.0
Hearts and Eyes
1911NR
Dog and Wolf
191110.0
Eugénie Grandet
1910