Léon Mathot

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Léon Mathot as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Christo in a film adaptation (1917/18) of the popular adventure material by Alexandre Dumas

Léon Mathot , born as Léon Désiré Joseph Tricnon , (born March 6, 1885 in Roubaix , France , † March 6, 1968 in Paris ) was a Belgian-French film actor and film director .

Live and act

Born in the French border town of Roubaix to Belgian parents, Léon Désiré Joseph Tricnon was renamed "Léon Mathot" on August 17, 1887. In Liège , his parents' hometown, he attended the conservatory and began to play theater in Lyon and Brussels. In 1906 Léon Mathot moved to Paris. There he made contact with the poorly developed cinematography and was employed by the film production company Pathé as an extra and small actor. In the years just before and during the First World War , he became a popular interpreter in French cinema. Mathot was used several times in film series, for example in 1917 as Count von Monte Christo in a film adaptation (1917/18) of the popular adventure material by Alexandre Dumas . During the war, director Abel Gance cast him several times.

From 1928 Léon Mathot largely turned his back on acting and from then on devoted himself to film direction, albeit without any of his productions ever achieving artistic significance. Mathot was last seen as an actor in 1939: In the propaganda drama “Deuxième Bureau contre Kommandantur”, Mathot played the main role of the clergyman Abbé Gaillard, who in 1917 for patriotic reasons hired himself out as an agent of the French in the fight against the German military. Léon Mathot's productions - literary adaptations, melodramas, anti-German pamphlets, adventure stories and dramas with an exotic background - have been completely forgotten today.

Léon Mathot was Vice President from 1938 to 1959 and President of the Cinémathèque française from 1959 to 1967 .

Filmography

as an actor

  • 1906: La Course à la perruque
  • 1911: Gontran champion du monde
  • 1912: Gontran charmeur
  • 1912: Joachim Goëthal et le secret de l'acier
  • 1912: Les rivaux d'Arnheim
  • 1913: La course à la perruque
  • 1913: Les rivaux d'Harlem
  • 1913: Le secret de l'acier
  • 1913: Le foulard jaune
  • 1914: Le pont fatal
  • 1915: Fioritures
  • 1916: Les écrits remaining
  • 1916: Barberousse
  • 1916: La zone de la mort
  • 1916: Les gaz mortels
  • 1917: Son héros
  • 1917: Les faussaires
  • 1917–18: Le comte de Monte-Christo (15 parts)
  • 1918: La maison d'argile
  • 1918: La course au flambeau
  • 1919: Travail
  • 1920: L'ami Fritz
  • 1921: Blanchette
  • 1921: L'empereur des pauvres
  • 1921: L'empire du diamant
  • 1921: Le demon de la haine
  • 1922: Jean d'Agrève
  • 1922: Être ou ne pas être
  • 1923: Vent debout
  • 1923: L'auberge rouge
  • 1923: Faithful Heart ( Cœur fidèle )
  • 1924: Mon oncle Benjamin
  • 1924: La nuit de la revanche
  • 1924: Le diable dans la ville
  • 1925: The painter and his model ( Le mariage de Paris )
  • 1926: La blessure
  • 1926: Yasmina
  • 1927: Le puits de Jacob
  • 1927: rue de la paix
  • 1928: The Revenge of the Arab Prince ( Dans l'ombre du harem )
  • 1929: L'apassionata
  • 1930: La maison de la flèche
  • 1931: Passeport 13,444
  • 1939: Deuxième bureau contre Kommandantur

as director:

  • 1927: Celle qui domine
  • 1928: The Revenge of the Arab Prince ( Dans l'ombre du harem )
  • 1929: L'apassionata
  • 1930: L'instinct
  • 1930: Le refuge
  • 1931: Passeport 13,444
  • 1931: La bande à Bouboule
  • 1932: Embrassez moi
  • 1933: Bouboule premier, roi nègre
  • 1933: Nu comme un ver
  • 1934: Le comte Obligado
  • 1935: La Mascotte
  • 1936: Les loups entre eux
  • 1936: L'ange du foyer
  • 1936: L'homme à abattre
  • 1937: Aloha, le chant des îles
  • 1937: Chéri-Bibi
  • 1938: Le révolté
  • 1939: Le bois sacré
  • 1939: Rappel immédiat
  • 1940: Le collier de Chanvre
  • 1941: Fromont jeune et Risler Aîné
  • 1941: Cartacalha, pure des gitans
  • 1942: Forte tête
  • 1942: L'homme sans nom
  • 1945: La route du bagne
  • 1945: Nuits d'alerte
  • 1946: La dernière chevauchée
  • 1946: L'homme aux mains d'argile
  • 1947: Le dolmen tragique
  • 1948: The Dancer of Marrakech ( La danseuse de Marrakech )
  • 1952: Mon gosse de père

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the birth register quoted in Les gens du cinéma, Extrait de naissance n ° 741/1885. All other (older) sources name March 5, 1886
  2. ↑ according to Léon Mathot's entry in Les gens du cinéma
personal data
SURNAME Mathot, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tricnon, Léon Désiré Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French film actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix , France
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1968
Place of death Paris