Philippe Hériat
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling.
Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel.
In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Acting
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Napoleon
as Antoine Christophe Saliceti
1927
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The Inhuman Woman
as Djorah de Nopur
1924
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The Late Mathias Pascal
as L'aide assesseur
1925
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Nothing But Time
1926
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El Dorado
as Joao, le bouffon
1921
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The Man of the Sea
as Le protecteur
1920
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Filippo, sculptor-lover
1935
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The Gallery of Monsters
as La géante
1924
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Saint Joan the Maid
as Gilles de Rays
1929
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The Flood
as Alban Perrin
1924
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Miracle of the Wolves
1924
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Divine
as Lutuf-Allah
1935
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Napoleon at St. Helena
as General Bertrand
1929
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Sea Fever
1927
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Prometheus, Banker
1921
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Napoléon Bonaparte
as Salicetti
1935
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Rothchild
as Diégo
1934
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La chaussée des géants
1926
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Bonaparte et la révolution
as Salicetti (archive footage)
1972
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Le Carnaval des vérités
1920
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Don Juan et Faust
as Wagner
1922
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Le marchand de plaisirs
1923
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La jalousie du barbouillé
1927
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Change of Heart
as Ralph
1928
