Philippe Hériat
Acting • Born 1898-09-15 – Died 1971-10-10
Biography
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling. Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel. In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Filmography
26 credits
Lucrezia Borgia
Movie • 1935
Filippo, sculptor-lover
The Inhuman Woman
Movie • 1924
Djorah de Nopur
Prometheus, Banker
Movie • 1921
The Gallery of Monsters
Movie • 1924
La géante
La chaussée des géants
Movie • 1926
The Flood
Movie • 1924
Alban Perrin
Nothing but Time
Movie • 1926
Divine
Movie • 1935
Lutuf-Allah
Napoleon at St. Helena
Movie • 1929
General Bertrand
Bonaparte et la révolution
Movie • 1972
Salicetti (archive footage)
Napoleon
Movie • 1927
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
The Man of the Sea
Movie • 1920
Le protecteur
The Late Mathias Pascal
Movie • 1925
L'aide assesseur
Saint Joan the Maid
Movie • 1929
Gilles de Rays
Le Carnaval des vérités
Movie • 1920
El Dorado
Movie • 1921
Joao, le bouffon
Sea Fever
Movie • 1927
Miracle of the Wolves
Movie • 1924
Don Juan et Faust
Movie • 1922
Wagner
Le marchand de plaisirs
Movie • 1923
La jalousie du barbouillé
Movie • 1927
Napoléon Bonaparte
Movie • 1935
Salicetti
Rothchild
Movie • 1934
Diégo
Change of Heart
Movie • 1928
Ralph
Weaker Sex
Movie • 1933
Détresse
Movie • 1930
Jean Mérit