Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 6, 1864
Died
April 24, 1934
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Emil Chautard
- Emile Chautard
Émile Chautard
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
5.9
Pierre (uncredited)
Wonder Bar
1934
6.0
Natkusiak
Man of Two Worlds
1934
7.1
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Design for Living
1933
6.5
French Hotel Clerk
The Solitaire Man
1933
5.0
Father Carmion
The Devil's in Love
1933
5.3
Gen. Pelletier
The Three Musketeers
1933
7.0
Don Marco Ramirez
The California Trail
1933
0.0
Oscar Brown
The bluffer
1932
6.8
Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Blonde Venus
1932
4.8
Priest
The Man from Yesterday
1932
Credits
Wonder Bar
as Pierre (uncredited)
1934
5.9
Man of Two Worlds
as Natkusiak
1934
6.0
Design for Living
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1933
7.1
The Solitaire Man
as French Hotel Clerk
1933
6.5
The Devil's in Love
as Father Carmion
1933
5.0
The Three Musketeers
as Gen. Pelletier
1933
5.3
The California Trail
as Don Marco Ramirez
1933
7.0
The bluffer
as Oscar Brown
1932
0.0
Blonde Venus
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
1932
6.8
The Man from Yesterday
as Priest
1932
4.8
🎬
The son of the other
1932
0.0
Shanghai Express
as Major Lenard
1932
6.9
Cock of the Air
as French Ambassador
1932
6.5
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
0.0
The Yellow Ticket
as Headwaiter
1931
4.7
The Road to Reno
as Andre
1931
3.2
The Common Law
as Doorman (uncredited)
1931
5.3
The Big House
as Pop
1931
0.0
The Big Trail
as Padre
1931
0.0
The Little Cafe
as Philibert
1931
7.0
🎬
Échec au roi
as King Eric VIII
1930
0.0
Counter-investigation
as O'Brien
1930
0.0
Morocco
as French General (uncredited)
1930
6.3
Just Like Heaven
as Dulac
1930
5.7
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
as Sylvester Corbett
1930
0.0
A Man from Wyoming
as French Mayor
1930
9.0
Estrellados
1930
0.0
🎬
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930
0.0
The Green Specter
as Abdoul
1930
0.0
Tiger Rose
as Frenchman
1929
0.0
Times Square
1929
0.0
Marianne
as Père Joseph
1929
6.3
House of Horror
as Old Miser
1929
0.0
Adoration
as Murajev
1928
0.0
Lilac Time
as The Mayor
1928
6.2
Caught in the Fog
as The Old Man
1928
0.0
Out of the Ruins
as Père Gilbert
1928
0.0
🎬
The Olympic Hero
as Grandpa Brown
1928
0.0
His Tiger Lady
as Stage Manager
1928
0.0
The Noose
as Priest
1928
7.0
The Love Mart
as Louis Frobelle
1927
0.0
Now We're in the Air
as Monsieur Chelaine
1927
6.2
7th Heaven
as Father Chevillon
1927
7.3
Whispering Sage
as José Arastrade
1927
0.0
Upstream
as Campbell-Mandare
1927
5.8
Blonde or Brunette
as Father-in-Law
1927
0.0
The Flaming Forest
as André Audemard
1926
0.0
My Official Wife
as Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
1926
0.0
Bardelys the Magnificent
as Anatol
1926
7.4
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
as Director
1926
6.5
Paris at Midnight
as Père Goriot
1926
9.0