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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Character: Self (archive footage)
TV • 1978
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Character: Abbé Gaillard
MOVIE • 1939
Passport 13.444
Character:
MOVIE • 1931
The house of La Fleche
Character:
MOVIE • 1930
L'instinct
Character: Jean Bernon
MOVIE • 1930
The mystery of the pink villa
Character: Langeac
MOVIE • 1930
In the Shadow of the Harem
Character: L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
MOVIE • 1928
Rue de la Paix
Character: Ally - un millionnaire
MOVIE • 1927
Yasmina
Character:
MOVIE • 1927
The Cradle of God
Character:
MOVIE • 1926
A Night of Romance
Character: Antonio Scapa
MOVIE • 1925
Der Maler und sein Modell
Character:
MOVIE • 1925
The Devil in the City
Character: Marc Herner
MOVIE • 1925
Cœur fidèle
Character: Jean
MOVIE • 1923
The Red Inn
Character: Prosper Magnan
MOVIE • 1923
Vent debout
Character:
MOVIE • 1923
Être ou ne pas être
Character:
MOVIE • 1922
Jean d'Agrève
Character: Jean d'Agrève
MOVIE • 1922
L'Empereur des pauvres
Character: Marc Anavan
MOVIE • 1922
Blanchette
Character:
MOVIE • 1921
Crew
Crew Credits
My Childish Father
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1953
La Danseuse de Marrakech
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1950
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1949
Le dolmen tragique
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1948
La dernière chevauchée
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1947
Alert Nights
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1946
La Route du bagne
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1945
L'homme sans nom
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1943
Forte tête
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1942
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1942
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1941
Hangman's Noose
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1940
Sacred Woods
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1939
Immediate Call
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1939
The Rebel
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1938
Chéri-Bibi
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1938
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1937
L'Ange du foyer
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1937
A Man to Kill
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1937
Wolves Between Them
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1936