Mathot, Léon

(March 5, 1886, Roubaix, Nord, France - March 6, 1968, Paris, France)

   He spent his childhood in Liège, Belgium. His passion for theater led him to take acting courses at the Paris Conservatory. He entered films as an extra in La Course à la Perruque (short, Georges Hatot, André Heuzé) and soon became a leading man of French silent cinema. From 1906 to 1939 (Deuxième Bureau contre Kommandantur, René Jayet, Robert Bibal), he played in more than seventy movies, notably portray­ing Edmond Dantès in a fifteen-episode adaptation of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo / UK: The Count of Monte Cristo (Henri Pouctal, 1918).

 Filmography

        ◘ Dans l'Ombre du Harem (co-director with André Liabel; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'appassionata (co-director with André Liabel)

        ◘ L'Instinct (co-director with André Liabel)

        ◘ Le Refuge

        ◘ Passeport 13.444

        ◘ La Bande à Bouboule Embrassez-moi

        ◘ Hier et aujourd'hui (short)

        ◘ Nu comme un Ver

        ◘ Bouboule 1er, Roi nègre

        ◘ Le Comte Obligado La Mascotte

        ◘ Les Loups entre eux

        ◘ L'Ange du Foyer L'Homme à abattre Aloha, le Chant des Iles

        ◘ Chéri-Bibi

        ◘ Le Révolté

1939 ◘ Rappel immédiat

        ◘ Le Bois sacré (co-director with Robert Bibal)

        ◘ Le Collier de Chanvre

        ◘ Fromont jeune et Risler aîné

        ◘ Cartacalha, Reine des Gitans (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Lorte Tête (also co-adapter)

1943 ◘ L'Homme sans Nom

        ◘ La Route du Bagne

        ◘ Nuits d'Alerte

        ◘ La Dernière Chevauchée (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Dolmen tragique

        ◘ L'Homme aux Mains d'Argile (also co-adapter)

1950 ◘ La Danseuse de Marrakech

1953 ◘ Mon Gosse de Père