Léon Mathot
Born: 1886-03-05, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Died: 1968-03-06
Biography
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.
Filmography
- L'instinct (1930)
- L'instinct (1930)
- Travail (1920)
- La Mascotte (1935)
- Le droit à la vie (1917)
- Embrassez-moi (1932)
- Yasmina (1927)
- Barberousse (1917)
- Vent debout (1923)
- Dans L'Ombre Du Harem (1928)
- Dans L'Ombre Du Harem (1928)
- Le mystère de la villa rose (1930)
- Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1918)
- L'Ange du foyer (1937)
- Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1941)
- L'Homme sans nom (1943)
- Le diable dans la ville (1925)
- L'Homme aux mains d'argile (1949)
- Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur (1939)
- The Empire of Diamonds (1920)
- Bouboule 1er, roi nègre (1934)
- Cœur fidèle (1923)
- Les gaz mortels (1916)
- L'Homme à abattre (1937)
- Les Loups entre eux (1936)
- La Dernière chevauchée (1947)
- La Route du bagne (1945)
- Jean d'Agrève (1922)
- Le Dolmen tragique (1948)
- Le Bois sacré (1939)