Émile Chautard
Acting • Born 1864-09-06 – Died 1934-04-24
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.
Filmography
51 credits
Shanghai Express
Movie • 1932
Major Lenard
Estrellados
Movie • 1930
The bluffer
Movie • 1932
Oscar Brown
Sweeping Against the Winds
Movie • 1930
The Green Specter
Movie • 1930
Abdoul
Whispering Sage
Movie • 1927
José Arastrade
The California Trail
Movie • 1933
Don Marco Ramirez
Blonde or Brunette
Movie • 1927
Father-in-Law
The son of the other
Movie • 1932
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie • 1931
Wonder Bar
Movie • 1934
Pierre (uncredited)
Just Like Heaven
Movie • 1930
Dulac
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1933
Gen. Pelletier
The Devil's in Love
Movie • 1933
Father Carmion
The Common Law
Movie • 1931
Doorman (uncredited)
A Man from Wyoming
Movie • 1930
French Mayor
Cock of the Air
Movie • 1932
French Ambassador
Tiger Rose
Movie • 1929
Frenchman
The Little Cafe
Movie • 1931
Philibert
The Big Trail
Movie • 1931
Padre
Paris at Midnight
Movie • 1926
Père Goriot
The Solitaire Man
Movie • 1933
French Hotel Clerk
Upstream
Movie • 1927
Campbell-Mandare
Lilac Time
Movie • 1928
The Mayor
The Yellow Ticket
Movie • 1931
Headwaiter
The Noose
Movie • 1928
Priest
Design for Living
Movie • 1933
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Marianne
Movie • 1929
Père Joseph
Morocco
Movie • 1930
French General (uncredited)
7th Heaven
Movie • 1927
Father Chevillon
Man of Two Worlds
Movie • 1934
Natkusiak
The Man from Yesterday
Movie • 1932
Priest
Now We're in the Air
Movie • 1927
Monsieur Chelaine
The Road to Reno
Movie • 1931
Andre
Caught in the Fog
Movie • 1928
The Old Man
Adoration
Movie • 1928
Murajev
House of Horror
Movie • 1929
Old Miser
The Big House
Movie • 1931
Pop
His Tiger Lady
Movie • 1928
Stage Manager
The Love Mart
Movie • 1927
Louis Frobelle
My Official Wife
Movie • 1926
Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Out of the Ruins
Movie • 1928
Père Gilbert
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Movie • 1926
Director
The Flaming Forest
Movie • 1926
André Audemard
Times Square
Movie • 1929
Bardelys the Magnificent
Movie • 1926
Anatol
Counter-investigation
Movie • 1930
O'Brien
Blonde Venus
Movie • 1932
Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
Échec au roi
Movie • 1930
King Eric VIII
The Olympic Hero
Movie • 1928
Grandpa Brown
Mysterious Mr. Parkes
Movie • 1930
Sylvester Corbett