Acting

Léon Mathot

Born 1886-03-05 · Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Died 1968-03-06

Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.

Credits

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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1978
Pour le plaisir
as Self
1964
My Childish Father
Director
1953
La Danseuse de Marrakech
Director
1950
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Director
1949
Le Dolmen tragique
Director
1948
La Dernière chevauchée
Director
1947
Alert Nights
Director
1946
La Route du bagne
Director
1945
L'Homme sans nom
Director
1943
Forte tête
Director
1942
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Director
1942
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Director
1941
Hangman's Noose
Director
1940
Sacred Woods
Director
1939
Immediate Call
Director
1939
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
as Abbé Gaillard
1939
The Rebel
Director
1938
Chéri-Bibi
Director
1938
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Director
1937
L'Ange du foyer
Director
1937
A Man to Kill
Director
1937
Wolves Between Them
Director
1936
The Mascot
Director
1935
Count Obligado
Director
1935
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
Director
1934
Naked as a Worm
Director
1933
Kiss Me
Director
1932
Bouboule's Gang
Director
1931
Passport 13.444
1931
Passport 13.444
Director
1931
The shelter
Director
1931
The house of La Fleche
1930
L'instinct
as Jean Bernon
1930
L'instinct
Director
1930
The mystery of the pink villa
as Langeac
1930
L'appassionata
Director
1929
In the Shadow of the Harem
as L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
1928
In the Shadow of the Harem
Writer
1928
In the Shadow of the Harem
Director
1928
Celle qui domine
Director
1927
Rue de la Paix
as Ally - un millionnaire
1927
Yasmina
1927
The Cradle of God
1926
A Night of Romance
as Antonio Scapa
1925
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925
The Devil in the City
as Marc Herner
1925
Cœur fidèle
as Jean
1923
The Red Inn
as Prosper Magnan
1923
Vent debout
1923
Être ou ne pas être
1922
Jean d'Agrève
as Jean d'Agrève
1922
L'Empereur des pauvres
as Marc Anavan
1922
Blanchette
1921
The Empire of Diamonds
as Arthur Graves
1920
L'Ami Fritz
1920
Work
as Luc Froment
1920
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Edmond Dantès
1918
The Zone of Death
1917
Barberousse
as Trively
1917
Will
as Louis Hérault
1917
The Right to Life
as Jacques Alberty
1917
Nemrod et compagnie
1916
The Tragic Mill
1916
Deadly Gas
1916
The Bridge That Failed
1914
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
as Joachim Goethal
1912
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
as Prince Algabert
1912
The Wig Chase
1906