Limur, Jean de

(Jean-François-Marie Chenu de Limur / November 13, 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime, France - June 5, 1976, Paris, France)

   An authentic count, he owed his Hollywood acting career to his fencing skills. In 1922, Max Linder hired him to play in his parody of The Three Musketeers (The Three Must-Get-Theres). Seen in a few films (1922 The Worldly Madonna, Harry Garson; Trifling Women, Rex Ingram; 1923 A Woman of Paris, also assistant, Charles Chaplin; 1924 The Arab, Rex Ingram; Human Desires, Burton George), he also co-wrote several screen­plays (1928 The Legion of the Condemned, William A. Wellman; Three Sinners, Rowland V Lee; The Magnifi­cent Flirt, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast). A film director since 1929, he gave up cinema in 1945 and obtained the post of manager in the French automobile indus­try for the Simca company. He was the son-in-law of opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938).

 Filmography

1929 ◘ The Letter (co-director with Louis Mercanton; also dialogist, editor; USA)

        ◘ Jealousy (US)

1930 ◘ Mon Gosse de Père (French-language version of Jean de Limur's The Parisian; also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; USA)

        ◘ Monsieur le Duc

1931 ◘ Circulez!

1933 ◘ Paprika

        ◘ Mariage à Responsabilité limitée

        ◘ L'Amour en Cage (French-language version of Carl Lamac's Die vertauschte Braut; Germany)

        ◘ Le Voyage imprévu / USA: Slipper Episode (also English-language version: Runaway Ladies)

        ◘ L'Auberge du petit Dragon

        ◘ La Petite Sauvage / Cupidon au Pensionnat La Rosière des Halles

        ◘ Le Coup de Trois

1936 ◘ La Garçonne

        ◘ La Brigade en Jupons

        ◘ La Bête aux Sept Manteaux

        ◘ La Cité des Lumières (also co-dialogist)

        ◘ Petite Peste

        ◘ Le Père Lebonnard / Papà Lebonnard (France / Italy)

        ◘ L'Homme qui joue avec le Feu Apparizione (Italy)

1945 ◘ La Grande Meute