Émile Chautard

Émile Chautard

Born: September 6, 1864
Died: April 24, 1934
in Paris, France
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue, but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Movies for Émile Chautard...

Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Pierre (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Man of Two Worlds
Title: Man of Two Worlds
Character: Natkusiak
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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The Solitaire Man
Title: The Solitaire Man
Character: French Hotel Clerk
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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The Devil's in Love
Title: The Devil's in Love
Character: Father Carmion
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Gen. Pelletier
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The California Trail
Title: The California Trail
Character: Don Marco Ramirez
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
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The bluffer
Title: The bluffer
Character: Oscar Brown
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking promoters, crazy inventors, and stock market hype. The story line comes from Kandel's stage play "Hot Money," which had played on Broadway a month or two in 1931, before Warners bought screen rights and changed the title.
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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Priest
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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The son of the other
Title: The son of the other
Released: March 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A doomed love story between a top model and a handsome young man. Born on a liner between New York and Europe, the union sinks when the married lady learns that her lover is none other than - the son of her old husband.
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Shanghai Express
Title: Shanghai Express
Character: Major Lenard
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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Cock of the Air
Title: Cock of the Air
Character: French Ambassador
Released: January 23, 1932
Type: Movie
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Released: November 6, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Headwaiter
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Andre
Released: September 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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The Big House
Title: The Big House
Character: Pop
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
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The Big Trail
Title: The Big Trail
Character: Padre
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail..
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The Little Cafe
Title: The Little Cafe
Character: Philibert
Released: January 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it....
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Counter-investigation
Title: Counter-investigation
Character: O'Brien
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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Morocco
Title: Morocco
Character: French General (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
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Just Like Heaven
Title: Just Like Heaven
Character: Dulac
Released: October 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
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A Man from Wyoming
Title: A Man from Wyoming
Character: French Mayor
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
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Estrellados
Title: Estrellados
Released: July 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
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Sweeping Against the Winds
Title: Sweeping Against the Winds
Released: June 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day nursery for their children. He's also a part owner in the business. His methods usually scare away the man hired as the plant manager, until a replacement (secretly one of the other owners) arrives.
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The Green Specter
Title: The Green Specter
Character: Abdoul
Released: May 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed off one by one by someone who calls himself (or herself) The Green Ghost. The survivors gather at an old mansion to find out who is doing the killing and why, and discover that the murderer is a member of that very group.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Frenchman
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Times Square
Title: Times Square
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
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Marianne
Title: Marianne
Character: Père Joseph
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
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House of Horror
Title: House of Horror
Character: Old Miser
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
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Adoration
Title: Adoration
Character: Murajev
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
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Lilac Time
Title: Lilac Time
Character: The Mayor
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
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Caught in the Fog
Title: Caught in the Fog
Character: The Old Man
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
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Out of the Ruins
Title: Out of the Ruins
Character: Père Gilbert
Released: August 19, 1928
Type: Movie
He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he makes the supreme sacrifice.
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His Tiger Lady
Title: His Tiger Lady
Character: Stage Manager
Released: May 27, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Priest
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
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The Love Mart
Title: The Love Mart
Character: Louis Frobelle
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
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Now We're in the Air
Title: Now We're in the Air
Character: Monsieur Chelaine
Released: October 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps and are wafted over the enemy lines in a runaway balloon. Through misunderstanding they are honored as heroes of the enemy forces, and sent back to the U.S. lines to spy. Here they are captured and almost shot, but everything ends happily. Only 20 minutes of this 6 reel comedy are extant.
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7th Heaven
Title: 7th Heaven
Character: Father Chevillon
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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Whispering Sage
Title: Whispering Sage
Character: José Arastrade
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W. Girard). Jones played Buck Kildare, who, after falling for Basque beauty Natalie Joyce, comes to the aid of the settlers. On his sterling horse Silver, Kildare goes after the villain, who, it turns out, is the very same man who murdered his brother Tom (William A. Steele).
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Upstream
Title: Upstream
Character: Campbell-Mandare
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
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Blonde or Brunette
Title: Blonde or Brunette
Character: Father-in-Law
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: André Audemard
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Character: Anatol
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Title: Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Character: Director
Released: August 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
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Paris at Midnight
Title: Paris at Midnight
Character: Père Goriot
Released: April 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.