Léonce Perret

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Léonce Perret in 1900

Léonce Perret (born March 14, 1880 in Niort , † August 12, 1935 in Paris ) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

Life

The trained stage actor appeared in various German-French silent film productions at the beginning of the 20th century and worked several times with the director Louis Feuillade and the film production company Gaumont . In parallel to his acting career, from 1909 he was also responsible as a director and screenwriter of over 200 short and feature films, his first successes were Le Feu à la mine , 1911, and L'Enfant de Paris , 1913.

1917 emigrated Perret in the United States, worked for the Hollywood -Studio Pathé and founded his own production company, the Perret Picture Inc . One of his most famous films was also made in the USA in 1918, the war drama Lest We Forget ( N'oublions jamais ). Perret returned to France in the early 1920s and worked on other film projects until his death in 1935, for which he also contributed the scripts. His last film, the large-scale production Koenigsmark , which served as a vehicle for the Austro-Italian actress Elissa Landi , was completed in 1936 by Maurice Tourneur .

The avant-garde attributed Perret led in French cinema new film techniques he brought some of his time in the US, including image adjustment, the exposure and the musical accompaniment of films. He was married to the actress Valentine Petit , who he used in a number of short films that always bore his first name.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Bernard Bastide, Jean A. Gili (Eds.): Léonce Perret. Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-913758-84-1 .

DVD release

  • Gaumont - Le Cinéma premier, Volume 1: 1897-1913: Alice Guy - Louis Feuillade - Léonce Perret . Gaumont Vidéo, Neuilly-sur-Seine 2008. (Contains two DVDs with films that Léonce Perret directed for Gaumont between 1910–1913, including Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912) and L 'enfant de Paris (1913 The DVD box is also published in English as Gaumont Treasures (1897-1913) , Kino Lorber, New York 2009.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Mystery of the Kador Cliffs (1912) - Dir. Léonce Perret , on YouTube, accessed January 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Gaumont Treasures (1897-1913) on Kino Lorber homepage, accessed on January 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Perret, Leonce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Niort
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1935
Place of death Paris