Georges Hatot

French screenwriter, film director and film producer (1876-1959) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 82

Georges Alphonse Hatot was a theater manager and pioneering French filmmaker during the late 1890s and early twentieth century. He directed the first known film based on the story of Joan of Arc in 1898 as well as having made the first films to feature the Roman emperor Nero.

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