Émile Chautard
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue, but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Acting
Movie
Shanghai Express
as Major Lenard
1932
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Design for Living
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1933
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Morocco
as French General (uncredited)
1930
Movie
Blonde Venus
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
1932
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7th Heaven
as Father Chevillon
1927
Movie
Wonder Bar
as Pierre (uncredited)
1934
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The Yellow Ticket
as Headwaiter
1931
Movie
The Common Law
as Doorman (uncredited)
1931
Movie
Bardelys the Magnificent
as Anatol
1926
Movie
The Three Musketeers
as Gen. Pelletier
1933
Movie
Marianne
as Père Joseph
1929
Movie
Upstream
as Campbell-Mandare
1927
Movie
The Solitaire Man
as French Hotel Clerk
1933
Movie
Lilac Time
as The Mayor
1928
Movie
The Devil's in Love
as Father Carmion
1933
Movie
The Man from Yesterday
as Priest
1932
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The Road to Reno
as Andre
1931
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Just Like Heaven
as Dulac
1930
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Cock of the Air
as French Ambassador
1932
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The Noose
as Priest
1928
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Now We're in the Air
as Monsieur Chelaine
1927
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The California Trail
as Don Marco Ramirez
1933
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A Man from Wyoming
as French Mayor
1930
Movie
The Little Cafe
as Philibert
1931
Crew
Movie
The Fires of Youth
Director
1917
Movie
The Heart of a Hero
Director
1916
Movie
The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
Scenario Writer
1912
Movie
Hearts and Eyes
Director
1911
Movie
Whispering Shadows
Director
1921
Movie
Daytime Wives
Director
1923
Movie
A Cashier's Novel
Director
1914
Movie
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Director
1919
Movie
Paid in Full
Director
1919
Movie
His Parisian Wife
Director
1919
Movie
The Marriage Price
Director
1919
Movie
Eyes of the Soul
Director
1919