Chautard, Emile

(1881, Avignon, Paris, France - April 24, 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA)

   A former actor at the Odeon, he began working for Eclair in 1909 and became artistic director of a branch of that society, the A.G.A.D., in 1910. He wrote a few of Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's movies (1912 Le Mystère de Notre-Dame de Paris / Le Mystère du Pont Notre-Dame; La Tourmente, also actor) and played in films (1911 La Savelli, short, Camille de Morlhon; Fouquet, l'Homme au Masque de Fer, Camille de Morl­hon; Le Poison de l'Humanité / USA: Alcohol: The Poison of Humanity, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset; 1913 Protéa, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset). From 1915 to 1924, he settled in the USA, where he shot many movies be­fore resuming his acting career performing support­ing roles in about sixty pictures (from 1917 A Girl's Folly, Maurice Tourneur, to 1934 Viva Villa!, uncredited, Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman). His stepson was American director George Archain-baud (1890-1959). He died of organ failure.

 Filmography

        ◘ Après la Chute de l'Aigle (short; unconfirmed; directed by Emile Chautard or Victorin Jasset; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Barberine / La Quenouille de Barberine / USA: Barberine (short)

        ◘ Eugènie Grandet (short)

        ◘ Le Voleur volé / USA: The Elusive Robber (short)

        ◘ La Petite Maman / USA: The Little Mother (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Entre le Devoir et l'Honneur / USA: Between Duty and Honor / Between Love and Honor (short)

        ◘ Jean le Pion (short)

        ◘ Le Médecin malgré lui (short)

        ◘ La Petite Etoile (short)

        ◘ Le Gamin de Paris (short)

        ◘ Le Trait d'Union (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Cavalleria rusticana (short)

        ◘ Le Coup de Vent (short)

1911

        ◘ Chien et Loup / Chiens et Loups / USA: Dog and

        ◘ Wolf (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Lour Maman / USA: For Their Mother (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ César Birotteau (short)

        ◘ Le Cœur et les Yeux (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Ingénieux Accident / USA: The Ingenious Ac­cident (short)

        ◘ Mariage aux Etoiles / USA: Marriage in the Stars (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Mater Dolorosa / USA: The Sorrowful Mother (short)

        ◘ Le Mur mitoyen (short)

        ◘ Cruelle Illusion (short)

        ◘ Le Grand-Père (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Aventure de Miette / USA: Miette's Adventures (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Fleur des Neiges (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Quand les Feuilles tomberont / USA: When the

        ◘ Leaves Fall (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Ennemi (short; also actor)

        ◘ Les Mains / USA: The Hands (short; co-director with Victorin Jasset)

        ◘ La Poupée japonaise (short)

        ◘ La Poison de l'Humanité / USA: Alcohol: The Poison of Humanity (co-director with Victorin Jasset; also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Une Nuit d'Epouvante / USA: A Terrible Night (USA)

        ◘ Vieux Papiers, vieux Souvenirs / USA: Old Papers, Old Souvenirs (short)

        ◘ La Légende de l'Aigle—A la Veille d'Austerlitz / USA: On the Eve of Austerlitz (short)

1912

        ◘ Conscience d'Enfant (short)

        ◘ Le Bonhomme Jadis / USA: The Kind Old Man (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Dame de chez Maxim's (short)

        ◘ La Légende de l'Aigle—Tu ne tueras point (short)

        ◘ La Légende de l'Aigle—Il était Trois Grenadiers (short)

        ◘ La Légende de l'Aigle—La Boucle de Cheveux / USA: The Lock of Hair (short)

        ◘ La Légende de l'Aigle—Le Déserteur (short)

        ◘ Sapho (short)

        ◘ Occupe-toi d'Amélie (short)

1913

        ◘ L'Auberge sanglante (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Veuve joyeuse (short)

        ◘ Mathilde (short)

        ◘ Lean la Poudre ou La Conquête de l'Algérie

        ◘ (short; unconfirmed; directed by Emile Chau-

        ◘ tard or Maurice Tourneur)

        ◘ Le Mystère de la Chambre jaune (short; co-

        ◘ director with Maurice Tourneur)

        ◘ Autour d'un Testament (short)

        ◘ La Crinière (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Malédiction (short)

        ◘ Le Chiffonnier de Paris (short)

        ◘ La Marseillaise (short)

        ◘ Les Moineaux affamés (short)

        ◘ Le Sculpteur aveugle (short; also actor)

        ◘ La Duchesse des Folies-Bergère (short)

        ◘ Le Dictateur

        ◘ La Dame de Monsoreau (short; unconfirmed; directed by Emile Chautard or Charles Krauss)

        ◘ La Fiancée maudite (short)

        ◘ Les Volets blancs (short)

        ◘ Le Cœur d'une Mère (Les Lions) (short)

1914

        ◘ Bagnes d'Enfants (short)

        ◘ L'Aiglon (short; also actor)

        ◘ L'Apprentie (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Berger (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Les Ruses de l'Amour (short; unconfirmed; Emile Chautard or Maurice Tourneur)

        ◘ Les Cols bleus (short)

        ◘ Le Faiseur des Fous (short)

        ◘ L'Idée de Françoise (short)

        ◘ Le Mystère de Coatserhro (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Roman d'un Caissier (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Indépendance de la Belgique 1830 (short)

        ◘ Arrival of Perpetua (short; USA)

        ◘ The Boss (short; USA)

        ◘ The Little Dutch Girl (short; USA)

        ◘ The Rack (short; USA)

1916 ◘ Des Pas sur le Sable / Les Aventures de William Tharps (three parts)

        ◘ Love's Crucible (short; USA)

        ◘ Human Driftwood (short; USA)

        ◘ Sudden Riches (short; USA)

        ◘ Friday the 13 / Friday the Thirteenth (short; USA)

        ◘ The Heart of a Hero (short; USA)

        ◘ All Man (short; USA)

        ◘ 1917

        ◘ Sapho (USA)

        ◘ The Man Who Forgot (also screenwriter; USA)

        ◘ A Hungry Heart / The Hungry Heart (USA)

        ◘ The Web of Desire (USA)

        ◘ The Family Honor (USA)

        ◘ Lorget-Me-Not (USA)

        ◘ The Fires of Youth (USA)

        ◘ Under False Colors (USA)

        ◘ The Heart of Ezra Greer (USA)

        ◘ Magda (USA)

        ◘ The Eternal Temptress (USA)

1918

        ◘ The Marionettes (USA)

        ◘ The House of Glass (USA)

        ◘ The Ordeal of Rosetta (USA)

        ◘ Her Final Reckoning (USA)

        ◘ A Daughter of the Old South (USA)

        ◘ Under the Greenwood Tree (USA)

1919

        ◘ Out of the Shadow (USA)

        ◘ His Parisian Wife (USA)

        ◘ Laid in Full (USA)

        ◘ The Marriage Price (USA)

        ◘ Eye of the Soul (USA)

        ◘ The Mystery of the Yellow Room (also producer; USA)

        ◘ Whispering Shadows (USA)

        ◘ The Black Panther's Club (USA)

        ◘ Living Lies (USA)

        ◘ The Glory of Clementina (USA)

        ◘ Youth to Youth (also producer; USA)

        ◘ Lorsaking All Others (USA)

        ◘ Daytime Wives (USA)

        ◘ Untamed Youth (USA)