Émile Chautard
Also Known As: Emil Chautard, Emile Chautard
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: September 06, 1864
Deathday: April 24, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Shanghai Express
Overview: A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Genres: Drama Romance War Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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Estrellados
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-07
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The bluffer
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-03
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Sweeping Against the Winds
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-20
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The Green Specter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-07
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Whispering Sage
Overview: 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).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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The California Trail
Overview: 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...
Genres: Western Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Blonde or Brunette
Overview: Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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The son of the other
Overview: 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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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-04
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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Wonder Bar
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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Just Like Heaven
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-21
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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The Devil's in Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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The Common Law
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-17
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A Man from Wyoming
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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Cock of the Air
Overview: An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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Tiger Rose
Overview: A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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The Little Cafe
Overview: 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....
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-20
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The Big Trail
Overview: A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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Paris at Midnight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-17
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The Solitaire Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Upstream
Overview: A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-30
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Lilac Time
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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The Noose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-29
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Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Marianne
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Morocco
Overview: Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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7th Heaven
Overview: In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Man of Two Worlds
Overview: A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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The Man from Yesterday
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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Now We're in the Air
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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The Road to Reno
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Caught in the Fog
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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Adoration
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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House of Horror
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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The Big House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-05-14
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His Tiger Lady
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
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The Love Mart
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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My Official Wife
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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Out of the Ruins
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-19
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-14
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The Flaming Forest
Overview: North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Times Square
Overview: Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-30
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Counter-investigation
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-05
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Blonde Venus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Échec au roi
Overview: Princess Anne, daughter of the King of Bellonia, loves the secretary Granton, but the proud Queen opposes the marriage. One day the good King wants to show that he is not ignorant of the responsibilities of power or the demands of the heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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The Olympic Hero
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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