Marco de Gastyne

Marco de Gastyne , actually Marc Henri Benoist (born July 15, 1889 in Paris , † November 8, 1982 ibid) was a French cartoonist , film director , screenwriter and film architect .

Life

The son of the writer Jules Benoist , who published under the name Jules de Gastyne , worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for La Baïonette magazine during the First World War .

De Gastyne became known as the director of the film La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc based on a screenplay by Jean-José Frappa with Simone Genevois in the lead role. As a production designer he worked on the film La sultane de l'amour as early as 1918 , and as art director on Le diable dans la ville in 1924 . For his first directorial work, À l'horizon du sud (1923), he also wrote the script himself.

His brother was the film architect Guy de Gastyne .

Filmography

• 1918: La sultane de l'amour, (production design)
• 1922: Inch'Allah, (Direction with Franz Toussaint )
• 1923: À l'horizon du sud, (director and screenplay)
• 1924: Le diable dans la ville, (Art Director)
• 1924: La blessure, (Director)
• 1925: La châtelaine du Liban, (director)
• 1926: La madone des sleepings, (screenplay and direction with Maurice Gleize )
• 1927: Mon coeur au ralenti, (director)
• 1928: La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc, (director)
• 1930: Une belle garce, (director)
• 1930: Mon coeur au ralenti, (director)
• 1932: Une fine partie, (Director)
• 1932: Le chimpanzé, (director)
• 1932: Claudie dompteuse, (director)
• 1932: La bête errante, (director)
• 1933: Rothchild (Rothchild) , (Director)
• 1935: Vas-y, tue-moi !, (Director)
• 1937: La reine des resquilleuses, (director)
• 1950: Bistro, (Director)
• 1955: Le masque de Toutankhamon, (Director)
• 1960: Les Fugitives, (Director)
• 1962: Trique, gamin de Paris, (director)
• 1964: Douchka, (director and screenplay)

Web links

• Marco de Gastyne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marco de Gastyne in the All Movie Guide (English)