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

• 1953My Childish Father — Director
• 1950La Danseuse de Marrakech — Director
• 1949L'Homme aux mains d'argile — Director
• 1948Le Dolmen tragique — Director
• 1947La Dernière chevauchée — Director
• 1946Alert Nights — Director
• 1945La Route du bagne — Director
• 1943L'Homme sans nom — Director
• 1942Cartacalha, reine des gitans — Director
• 1942Forte tête — Director
• 1941Fromont Young and Risler Elder — Director
• 1940Hangman's Noose — Director
• 1939Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur — Abbé Gaillard
• 1939Immediate Call — Director
• 1939Sacred Woods — Director
• 1938Chéri-Bibi — Director
• 1938The Rebel — Director
• 1937A Man to Kill — Director
• 1937Aloha, the Song of the Islands — Director
• 1937L'Ange du foyer — Director
• 1936Wolves Between Them — Director
• 1935Count Obligado — Director
• 1935The Mascot — Director
• 1934Bouboule 1er, roi nègre — Director
• 1933Naked as a Worm — Director
• 1932Kiss Me — Director
• 1931Bouboule's Gang — Director
• 1931Passport 13.444 — Director
• 1931The shelter — Director
• 1930L'instinct — Jean Bernon, Director
• 1930The house of La Fleche
• 1930The mystery of the pink villa — Langeac
• 1929L'appassionata — Director
• 1928In the Shadow of the Harem — L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser, Writer, Director
• 1927Celle qui domine — Director
• 1927Rue de la Paix — Ally - un millionnaire
• 1927Yasmina
• 1926The Cradle of God
• 1925A Night of Romance — Antonio Scapa
• 1925Der Maler und sein Modell
• 1925The Devil in the City — Marc Herner
• 1923Cœur fidèle — Jean
• 1923The Red Inn — Prosper Magnan
• 1923Vent debout
• 1922Jean d'Agrève — Jean d'Agrève
• 1922L'Empereur des pauvres — Marc Anavan
• 1922Être ou ne pas être
• 1921Blanchette
• 1920L'Ami Fritz
• 1920The Empire of Diamonds — Arthur Graves
• 1920Work — Luc Froment
• 1918The Count of Monte Cristo — Edmond Dantès
• 1917Barberousse — Trively
• 1917The Right to Life — Jacques Alberty
• 1917The Zone of Death
• 1917Will — Louis Hérault
• 1916Deadly Gas
• 1916Nemrod et compagnie
• 1916The Tragic Mill
• 1914The Bridge That Failed
• 1912Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg — Prince Algabert
• 1912Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel — Joachim Goethal
• 1906The Wig Chase

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• Pour le plaisir — Self