André de Lorde

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André de Lorde,
ca.1928

André de Lorde ( André de La Tour , born July 11, 1869 in Toulouse , Haute-Garonne department , † September 6, 1942 in Antibes , Alpes-Maritimes department ) was a French playwright.

De Lorde wrote his first play at the age of fifteen and was chief author of the Grand-Guignol for a long time . His specialty was horror pieces, and in the 1920s he was considered the Prince de la Terreur . He wrote more than 200 dramas over the course of his career, often working with Alfred Binet , director of the psychological laboratory at the Sorbonne . He was also a librarian at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal .

Based on scripts, scenarios, plays and novels by de Lordes, almost thirty films were made between 1910 and 1940. With Paul Milliet he wrote the libretto for Camille Erlanger 's opera Forfaiture, which premiered in 1921 .

Filmography

  • 1909: The Lonely Villa (Direction: David Wark Griffith )
  • 1911: Le crime d'un fils (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset )
  • 1911: Au fond du gouffre (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1911: Fumeur d'opium (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1911: Une nuit d'épouvante (directed by Émile Chautard and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1912: Un cri dans la nuit (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1912: Le cercueil de verre (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1912: Dans la cave (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1912: Fatalité (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: Le cabinet d'affaires (directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: Dans la fournaise (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: Le semeur de ruines (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: La malédiction (Direction: Emile Chautard)
  • 1913: La justicière - episode 1: Le mystérieux voyageur (directed by Gérard Bourgeois and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: Destin tragique - episode 1: Haine de femme (Director: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
  • 1913: Le sculpteur aveugle (Director: Emile Chautard)
  • 1913: Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume (director: Maurice Tourneur )
  • 1914: Bagnes d'enfants (Direction: Emile Chautard)
  • 1914: Le faiseur de fous (Director: Emile Chautard)
  • 1920: Li Hang le cruel (Director: Édouard-Émile Violet )
  • 1920: La double existence du docteur Morart (Director: Jacques Grétillat )
  • 1925: Le château de la mort lente (Direction: Émile-Bernard Donatien )
  • 1931: Attaque nocturne (Director: Marc Allégret )
  • 1933: L'homme mystérieux (Director: Maurice Tourneur)
  • 1933: Bagnes d'enfants (Direction: Georges Gauthier )
  • 1936: Le roman d'un spahi (Director: Michel Bernheim )
  • 1946: The Diary of a Chambermaid ( Diary of a chambermaid , directed by Jean Renoir )

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SURNAME Lorde, André de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Tour, André de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse , Haute-Garonne department
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1942
Place of death Antibes , Alpes-Maritimes department