Léon Mathot

Léon Mathot

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.

On screen

  • Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
  • L'instinct
  • The house of La Fleche
  • The mystery of the pink villa
  • In the Shadow of the Harem
  • Yasmina
  • Rue de la Paix
  • The Cradle of God
  • The Devil in the City
  • Der Maler und sein Modell
  • Cœur fidèle
  • The Red Inn
  • Jean d'Agrève
  • Work
  • The Empire of Diamonds
  • L'Ami Fritz
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Barberousse
  • The Right to Life
  • The Zone of Death
  • The Tragic Mill
  • Deadly Gas
  • The Bridge That Failed

Behind the camera

  • My Childish Father
  • La Danseuse de Marrakech
  • L'Homme aux mains d'argile
  • Le Dolmen tragique
  • La dernière chevauchée
  • Alert Nights
  • La Route du bagne
  • L'Homme sans nom
  • Cartacalha, reine des gitans
  • Forte tête
  • Fromont Young and Risler Elder
  • Hangman's Noose
  • Sacred Woods
  • Immediate Call
  • Chéri-Bibi
  • The Rebel
  • Aloha, the Song of the Islands
  • A Man to Kill
  • L'Ange du foyer
  • Wolves Between Them
  • Count Obligado
  • The Mascot
  • Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
  • Kiss Me
  • Bouboule's Gang
  • L'instinct
  • In the Shadow of the Harem

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