Émile Chautard

Acting · Directing · Writing

Born September 6, 1864, Paris, France

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.

Filmography

• 1934Man of Two Worlds — Natkusiak
• 1934Wonder Bar — Pierre (uncredited)
• 1933Design for Living — Train Conductor (uncredited)
• 1933The California Trail — Don Marco Ramirez
• 1933The Devil's in Love — Father Carmion
• 1933The Solitaire Man — French Hotel Clerk
• 1933The Three Musketeers — Gen. Pelletier
• 1932Blonde Venus — Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
• 1932Cock of the Air — French Ambassador
• 1932Shanghai Express — Major Lenard
• 1932The Man from Yesterday — Priest
• 1932The bluffer — Oscar Brown
• 1932The son of the other
• 1931The Big House — Pop
• 1931The Big Trail — Padre
• 1931The Common Law — Doorman (uncredited)
• 1931The Little Cafe — Philibert
• 1931The Road to Reno — Andre
• 1931The Trial of Mary Dugan
• 1931The Yellow Ticket — Headwaiter
• 1930A Man from Wyoming — French Mayor
• 1930Counter-Investigation — O'Brien
• 1930Estrellados
• 1930Just Like Heaven — Dulac
• 1930Morocco — French General (uncredited)
• 1930Mysterious Mr. Parkes — Sylvester Corbett
• 1930Sweeping Against the Winds
• 1930The Green Specter — Abdoul
• 1930Échec au roi — King Eric VIII
• 1929House of Horror — Old Miser
• 1929Marianne — Père Joseph
• 1929Tiger Rose — Frenchman
• 1929Times Square
• 1928Adoration — Murajev
• 1928Caught in the Fog — The Old Man
• 1928His Tiger Lady — Stage Manager
• 1928Lilac Time — The Mayor
• 1928Out of the Ruins — Père Gilbert
• 1928The Noose — Priest
• 1928The Olympic Hero — Grandpa Brown
• 19277th Heaven — Father Chevillon
• 1927Blonde or Brunette — Father-in-Law
• 1927Now We're in the Air — Monsieur Chelaine
• 1927The Love Mart — Louis Frobelle
• 1927Upstream — Campbell-Mandare
• 1927Whispering Sage — José Arastrade
• 1926Bardelys the Magnificent — Anatol
• 1926Broken Hearts of Hollywood — Director
• 1926My Official Wife — Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
• 1926Paris at Midnight — Père Goriot
• 1926The Flaming Forest — André Audemard
• 1924Untamed Youth — Director
• 1923Daytime Wives — Director
• 1922Forsaking All Others — Director
• 1922Living Lies — Director
• 1922The Glory of Clementina — Director
• 1922Youth to Youth — Director, Producer
• 1921The Black Panther's Cub — Director
• 1921Whispering Shadows — Director
• 1919Eyes of the Soul — Director
• 1919His Parisian Wife — Director
• 1919Out of the Shadow — Director
• 1919Paid in Full — Director
• 1919The Marriage Price — Director
• 1919The Mystery of the Yellow Room — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1918A Daughter of the Old South — Director
• 1918The House of Glass — Director
• 1918The Marionettes — Director
• 1918The Ordeal of Rosetta — Director
• 1918Under the Greenwood Tree — Director
• 1917A Hungry Heart — Director
• 1917Forget-Me-Not — Director
• 1917Magda — Director
• 1917The Eternal Temptress — Director
• 1917The Family Honor — Director
• 1917The Fires of Youth — Director
• 1917The Heart of Ezra Greer — Director
• 1917The Man Who Forgot — Director, Scenario Writer
• 1917The Web of Desire — Director
• 1917Under False Colors — Director
• 1916All Man — Director
• 1916Friday the 13th — Director
• 1916Love's Crucible — Director
• 1916Sudden Riches — Director
• 1916The Heart of a Hero — Director
• 1915The Arrival of Perpetua — Director
• 1915The Boss — Director
• 1915The Little Dutch Girl — Director
• 1915The Rack — Director
• 1914A Cashier's Novel — Director
• 1914The Horrors of War — Director
• 1913Chicot the Jester — Director
• 1913La duchesse des Folies-Bergères — Director
• 1913Le chiffonnier de Paris — Director
• 1913The Eaglet — Director
• 1913The Mystery of the Yellow Room — Director
• 1913The Spoiled Sparrows — Director
• 1912The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris — Scenario Writer, Director
• 1911Dog and Wolf — Director, Scenario Writer
• 1911Hearts and Eyes — Director, Writer
• 1911La fleur des neiges — Director, Screenplay
• 1910Eugénie Grandet — Director