Léon Mathot
Biography
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.
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Movies (49)
My Childish Father
Director (Directing)
1953
La Danseuse de Marrakech
Director (Directing)
1950
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Director (Directing)
1949
Le dolmen tragique
Director (Directing)
1948
La dernière chevauchée
Director (Directing)
1947
Alert Nights
Director (Directing)
1946
La Route du bagne
Director (Directing)
1945
L'homme sans nom
Director (Directing)
1943
Forte tête
Director (Directing)
1942
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Director (Directing)
1942
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Director (Directing)
1941
Hangman's Noose
Director (Directing)
1940
Sacred Woods
Director (Directing)
1939
Immediate Call
Director (Directing)
1939
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
as Abbé Gaillard
1939
The Rebel
Director (Directing)
1938
Chéri-Bibi
Director (Directing)
1938
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Director (Directing)
1937
L'Ange du foyer
Director (Directing)
1937
A Man to Kill
Director (Directing)
1937
Wolves Between Them
Director (Directing)
1936
La Mascotte
Director (Directing)
1935
Count Obligado
Director (Directing)
1935
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
Director (Directing)
1934
Naked as a Worm
Director (Directing)
1933
Kiss Me
Director (Directing)
1932
Bouboule's Gang
Director (Directing)
1931
Passport 13.444
1931
The shelter
Director (Directing)
1931
The house of La Fleche
1930
L'instinct
as Jean Bernon
1930
The mystery of the pink villa
as Langeac
1930
L'appassionata
Director (Directing)
1929
In the Shadow of the Harem
as L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
1928
Celle qui domine
Director (Directing)
1927
Rue de la Paix
as Ally - un millionnaire
1927
Yasmina
1927
The Cradle of God
1926
A Night of Romance
as Antonio Scapa
1925
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925
The Devil in the City
as Marc Herner
1925
Cœur fidèle
as Jean
1923
The Red Inn
as Prosper Magnan
1923
Vent debout
1923
Être ou ne pas être
1922
Jean d'Agrève
as Jean d'Agrève
1922
L'Empereur des pauvres
as Marc Anavan
1922
Blanchette
1921
The Empire of Diamonds
as Arthur Graves
1920