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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Wonder Bar
Character:Pierre (uncredited)
Release Date:31/03/1934
Man of Two Worlds
Character:Natkusiak
Release Date:13/01/1934
Design for Living
Character:Train Conductor (uncredited)
Release Date:29/12/1933
The Solitaire Man
Character:French Hotel Clerk
Release Date:22/09/1933
The Devil's in Love
Character:Father Carmion
Release Date:21/07/1933
The Three Musketeers
Character:Gen. Pelletier
Release Date:07/04/1933
The California Trail
Character:Don Marco Ramirez
Release Date:24/03/1933
The bluffer
Character:Oscar Brown
Release Date:03/11/1932
Blonde Venus
Character:Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Release Date:23/09/1932
The Man from Yesterday
Character:Priest
Release Date:24/06/1932
The son of the other
Character:
Release Date:04/03/1932
Shanghai Express
Character:Major Lenard
Release Date:12/02/1932
Cock of the Air
Character:French Ambassador
Release Date:23/01/1932
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character:
Release Date:06/11/1931
The Yellow Ticket
Character:Headwaiter
Release Date:30/10/1931
The Road to Reno
Character:Andre
Release Date:25/09/1931
The Common Law
Character:Doorman (uncredited)
Release Date:17/07/1931
The Big House
Character:Pop
Release Date:14/05/1931
The Big Trail
Character:Padre
Release Date:29/03/1931
The Little Cafe
Character:Philibert
Release Date:20/01/1931
Échec au roi
Character:King Eric VIII
Release Date:27/12/1930
Counter-investigation
Character:O'Brien
Release Date:05/12/1930
Morocco
Character:French General (uncredited)
Release Date:14/11/1930
Just Like Heaven
Character:Dulac
Release Date:21/10/1930
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Character:Sylvester Corbett
Release Date:30/08/1930
A Man from Wyoming
Character:French Mayor
Release Date:12/07/1930
Estrellados
Character:
Release Date:07/07/1930
Sweeping Against the Winds
Character:
Release Date:20/06/1930
The Green Specter
Character:Abdoul
Release Date:07/05/1930
Tiger Rose
Character:Frenchman
Release Date:21/12/1929
Times Square
Character:
Release Date:01/09/1929
Marianne
Character:Père Joseph
Release Date:24/08/1929
House of Horror
Character:Old Miser
Release Date:28/04/1929
Adoration
Character:Murajev
Release Date:02/12/1928
Lilac Time
Character:The Mayor
Release Date:18/10/1928
Caught in the Fog
Character:The Old Man
Release Date:25/08/1928
Out of the Ruins
Character:Père Gilbert
Release Date:19/08/1928
The Olympic Hero
Character:Grandpa Brown
Release Date:15/06/1928
His Tiger Lady
Character:Stage Manager
Release Date:27/05/1928
The Noose
Character:Priest
Release Date:29/01/1928
The Love Mart
Character:Louis Frobelle
Release Date:18/12/1927
Now We're in the Air
Character:Monsieur Chelaine
Release Date:21/10/1927
7th Heaven
Character:Father Chevillon
Release Date:10/09/1927
Whispering Sage
Character:José Arastrade
Release Date:20/03/1927
Upstream
Character:Campbell-Mandare
Release Date:30/01/1927
Blonde or Brunette
Character:Father-in-Law
Release Date:08/01/1927
The Flaming Forest
Character:André Audemard
Release Date:21/11/1926
My Official Wife
Character:Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Release Date:16/10/1926
Bardelys the Magnificent
Character:Anatol
Release Date:30/09/1926
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Character:Director
Release Date:14/08/1926
Paris at Midnight
Character:Père Goriot
Release Date:17/04/1926
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