Maurice Tourneur

Born: 1876-02-02, Paris, France

Died: 1961-08-04

Biography

Maurice Félix Thomas (1876 – 1961), known as Maurice Tourneur, was a French film director and screenwriter. His son, Jacques (1904–1977), would follow his father into the film industry, establishing his own reputation as a director of American films in the 1940s and 1950s.

Filmography

• Le Friquet (1914)
• Barbary Sheep (1917)
• The Bait (1921)
• Trilby (1915)
• Volpone (1941)
• Prunella (1918)
• Jealous Husbands (1923)
• Lidoire (1933)
• La bergère d'Ivry (1913)
• The Cub (1915)
• Mam'zelle Bonaparte (1942)
• Cécile est morte ! (1944)
• The Mysterious Island (1929)
• A Girl's Folly (1917)
• A Girl's Folly (1917)
• The Pride of the Clan (1917)
• Avec le sourire (1936)
• Old Loves and New (1926)
• The White Circle (1920)
• La Main du Diable (1943)
• Rose of the World (1918)
• The Undying Flame (1917)
• Justin de Marseille (1935)
• The Christian (1923)
• The Closed Road (1916)
• L'Homme mystérieux (1933)
• The Rise of Jenny Cushing (1917)
• The Great Redeemer (1920)
• L'Équipage (1928)
• Mary of the Movies (1923)