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Marcel L'Herbier

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French film director (1888-1979)

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Marcel L'Herbier was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total.

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Filmography 40

L'Argent1928
The Inhuman Woman1924
The Late Mathias Pascal1925
Le Bonheur1934
El Dorado1921
Fantastic Night1942
The Man of the Sea1920
The Gallery of Monsters1924
The Last Days of Pompeii1950
Forfaiture1937
Little Devil May Care1928
News Item1923
Comedy of Happiness1940
Adrienne Lecouvreur1938
Cordial Agreement1939
Scent of the Woman in Black1931
Happy Go Lucky1946
Le Vertige1926
Rasputin1938
The Flood1924
Le Bercail1919
The New Men1936
Rose-France1919
What the East Wind Saw1954
The Adventurer1934
The Mystery of the Yellow Room1930
Prometheus, Banker1921
The Father of the Girl1953
The Honorable Catherine1943
Foolish Husbands1941
Autour de l'argent1929
The Bohemian Life1945
Queen's Necklace1946
Illegitimate Child1930
Stolen Affections1948
Zuiderzeewerken1930
Nights of Fire1937
The Imperial Road1935
Children's Corner1936
La Femme d'une nuit1930

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Television 1

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978

Awards 2

Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit

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Marcel L'Herbier was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1888 to 1979 · aged 91
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