Renée Carl

Acting · Directing

Born June 10, 1875, Fontenay-le-Comte

Renée Carl (10 June 1875 – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France, and died in Paris, France. Between 1907 and 1937, she appeared in 186 films. A favorite of film director Louis Feuillade, she appeared in, at least, 150 films directed by him including the short Bébé and Bout de Zan comedies. Of the many characters she played in Feuillade's films, perhaps her most famous portrayal was that of Lady Beltham, mistress of the notorious Fantômas in the serial of the same name. She makes an uncredited appearance, as "L'Andalouse," in The Vampires. In 1922, she directed and starred in the film A Shout from the Abyss, also known as Un cri dans l'abîme. In a 1924 interview for Mon Ciné magazine, she stated that she was introduced to film-making through her friend Léonie Richard. Selected filmography

Filmography

• 1937Pépé le Moko — 'La Mère Tarte'
• 1935Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
• 1926Les Larmes de Colette
• 1925Les Misérables — La Thénardier
• 1923The Bachelor Girl — Mme. Ambrat
• 1922A Shout from the Abyss — Director
• 1922L'aviateur masqué
• 1914At the Hour of Dawn
• 1914Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
• 1914Manon de Montmartre — Mme Bernard
• 1914Severo Torelli — Dona Pia
• 1914The Cavalry — Mme de Moranges
• 1914The Seneschal's Diamond
• 1914The Toledo Chest
• 1914The Wagon Child
• 1913Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant — Charitable lady
• 1913Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
• 1913Fantômas — Lady Beltham
• Fantômas — Lady Beltham
• 1913L'Intruse — La Breschard
• 1913La Vengeance du sergent de la ville
• 1913The Agony of Byzantium — The Wife of Emperor Constantine
• 1913The Open Eyes
• 1913The Secret of Forçat
• 1912A Race for Millions
• 1912Bout-de-Zan revient du cirque
• 1912Bébé n’aime pas sa concierge — Bébé's mother
• 1912Bébé veut payer ses dettes
• 1912In the Land of Lions — La Morena
• 1912Jimmy Pulls The Trigger — Bébé mother
• 1912L'Accident
• 1912La Cassette de l'émigrée — Marie-Jeanne la lingère
• 1912La Maison des lions
• 1912La conquête d'Aurélia
• 1912Le Pont sur l'abîme
• 1912Le Suicide de Bébé — La mère de Bébé
• 1912Les Braves Gens
• 1912Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks
• 1912The Dungeon
• 1912The Dwarf — La mère
• 1912The Fate of Mothers
• 1912The Heart and the Money — Madame Mauguiot
• 1912The Living Dead
• 1912The Obsession — Mme Trévoux
• 1911A General Strike
• 1911Bébé Corrects His Father — Mother
• 1911Bébé a le béguin
• 1911Bébé nègre
• 1911Bébé roi de Rome — la mère de Bébé
• 1911La Souris blanche
• 1911Le Bas de laine
• 1911Le Chef-lieu de canton
• 1911Le Fils de Locuste
• 1911Le Mariage de l'aînée
• 1911Le Poison
• 1911Life As It Is
• 1911Tant que vous serez heureux
• 1911Thaïs
• 1911The Defect — Anna Moulin, dite Nana
• 1911The Trust, or The Battles for Money — Juliette Michaud
• 1911The Vipers
• 1910André Chénier
• 1910Baby Fisherman
• 1910Bébé apache
• 1910Cursed Be the War
• 1910Esther
• 1910Jephthah's Daughter
• 1910La Trouvaille de Bébé
• 1910Le Festin de Balthazar
• 1910Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
• 1910L’Aventurière
• 1910The Exodus
• 1910The Fault of Another
• 1910The Guardian of Camargue
• 1910The Nativity
• 1910The Seven Deadly Sins
• 1909Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
• 1909Custody of the Child — Mother
• 1909Idylle corinthienne
• 1909Judith and Holophernes — Judith
• 1909La Bous Bous Mée — La femme jalouse
• 1909Les Vieux
• 1909The Blind Man of Jerusalem
• 1909The Huguenot
• 1909The Imager of Mont Saint-Michel
• 1909The Shipwreck
• 1909Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
• 1908A Very Fine Lady — La dame vraiment bien
• 1908Le Secret du glacier
• 1908The Hotel of Silence
• 1908The Legend of Prometheus
• 1908The Legend of the Spinner — La Muse
• 1907The Colonel's Account