Acting
Léon Mathot
Born 1886-03-05
Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
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Cœur fidèle
1923
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Pour le plaisir
1964
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The Red Inn
1923
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L'instinct
1930
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Work
1920
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The Right to Life
1917
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Yasmina
1927
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The Mascot
1935
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Le Dolmen tragique
1948
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Vent debout
1923
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (69 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) | TV Series | 1978 | |
 | Pour le plaisir | Self | TV Series | 1964 |
 | My Childish Father | Director | Movie | 1953 |
 | La Danseuse de Marrakech | Director | Movie | 1950 |
 | L'Homme aux mains d'argile | Director | Movie | 1949 |
 | Le Dolmen tragique | Director | Movie | 1948 |
 | La Dernière chevauchée | Director | Movie | 1947 |
 | Alert Nights | Director | Movie | 1946 |
 | La Route du bagne | Director | Movie | 1945 |
 | L'Homme sans nom | Director | Movie | 1943 |
 | Forte tête | Director | Movie | 1942 |
 | Cartacalha, reine des gitans | Director | Movie | 1942 |
 | Fromont Young and Risler Elder | Director | Movie | 1941 |
 | Hangman's Noose | Director | Movie | 1940 |
 | Sacred Woods | Director | Movie | 1939 |
 | Immediate Call | Director | Movie | 1939 |
 | Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur | Abbé Gaillard | Movie | 1939 |
 | The Rebel | Director | Movie | 1938 |
 | Chéri-Bibi | Director | Movie | 1938 |
 | Aloha, the Song of the Islands | Director | Movie | 1937 |
 | L'Ange du foyer | Director | Movie | 1937 |
 | A Man to Kill | Director | Movie | 1937 |
 | Wolves Between Them | Director | Movie | 1936 |
 | The Mascot | Director | Movie | 1935 |
 | Count Obligado | Director | Movie | 1935 |
 | Bouboule 1er, roi nègre | Director | Movie | 1934 |
| Naked as a Worm | Director | Movie | 1933 | |
 | Kiss Me | Director | Movie | 1932 |
 | Bouboule's Gang | Director | Movie | 1931 |
| Passport 13.444 | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1931 | |
| Passport 13.444 | Director | Movie | 1931 | |
| The shelter | Director | Movie | 1931 | |
 | The house of La Fleche | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1930 |
 | L'instinct | Jean Bernon | Movie | 1930 |
| L'instinct | Director | Movie | 1930 |
 | The mystery of the pink villa | Langeac | Movie | 1930 |
| L'appassionata | Director | Movie | 1929 | |
 | In the Shadow of the Harem | L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser | Movie | 1928 |
| In the Shadow of the Harem | Writer | Movie | 1928 |
| In the Shadow of the Harem | Director | Movie | 1928 |
| Celle qui domine | Director | Movie | 1927 | |
 | Rue de la Paix | Ally - un millionnaire | Movie | 1927 |
 | Yasmina | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1927 |
 | The Cradle of God | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1926 |
| A Night of Romance | Antonio Scapa | Movie | 1925 | |
 | Der Maler und sein Modell | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1925 |
 | The Devil in the City | Marc Herner | Movie | 1925 |
 | Cœur fidèle | Jean | Movie | 1923 |
 | The Red Inn | Prosper Magnan | Movie | 1923 |
 | Vent debout | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1923 |
| Être ou ne pas être | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1922 | |
 | Jean d'Agrève | Jean d'Agrève | Movie | 1922 |
| L'Empereur des pauvres | Marc Anavan | Movie | 1922 | |
| Blanchette | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1921 | |
 | The Empire of Diamonds | Arthur Graves | Movie | 1920 |
 | L'Ami Fritz | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1920 |
 | Work | Luc Froment | Movie | 1920 |
 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Edmond Dantès | Movie | 1918 |
 | The Zone of Death | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1917 |
 | Barberousse | Trively | Movie | 1917 |
| Will | Louis Hérault | Movie | 1917 | |
 | The Right to Life | Jacques Alberty | Movie | 1917 |
| Nemrod et compagnie | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1916 | |
 | The Tragic Mill | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1916 |
 | Deadly Gas | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1916 |
 | The Bridge That Failed | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1914 |
| Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel | Joachim Goethal | Movie | 1912 | |
| Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg | Prince Algabert | Movie | 1912 | |
| The Wig Chase | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1906 |