Acting
Léon Mathot
Born March 5, 1886 Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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.
Directed Films
10.0
My Childish Father
1953·Drama
10.0
La Danseuse de Marrakech
1950·Drama
10.0
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
1949·Drama
6.3
Le Dolmen tragique
1948·Crime
9.0
La dernière chevauchée
1947·Comedy
7.0
Alert Nights
1946·Drama
8.0
La Route du bagne
1945·Drama
9.0
L'Homme sans nom
1943·Drama
9.0
Forte tête
1942
10.0
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
1942·Comedy
7.5
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
1941·Drama
10.0
Hangman's Noose
1940·Crime
10.0
Sacred Woods
1939
10.0
Immediate Call
1939
7.0
The Rebel
1938·Drama
5.0
Chéri-Bibi
1938·Drama
8.0
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
1937
10.0
L'Ange du foyer
1937·Comedy
10.0
A Man to Kill
1937·Thriller
10.0
Wolves Between Them
1936
10.0
La Mascotte
1935·Comedy
8.0
Count Obligado
1935·Comedy
7.0
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
1934·Comedy
10.0
Kiss Me
1932
Also Appeared In
7.0
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939·War
8.0
The house of La Fleche
1930
9.0
L'instinct
1930·Documentary
7.0
The mystery of the pink villa
1930
7.0
In the Shadow of the Harem
1928·Romance
8.0
Rue de la Paix
1927
10.0
Yasmina
1927
7.0
The Cradle of God
1926
7.0
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925
6.0
The Devil in the City
1925·Mystery
7.2
Cœur fidèle
1923·Drama
6.1
The Red Inn
1923·Crime