Léon Mathot
Acting • Born 1886-03-05 – Died 1968-03-06
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.
Filmography
35 credits
The Wig Chase
Movie • 1906
Cœur fidèle
Movie • 1923
Jean
L'instinct
Movie • 1930
Jean Bernon
The house of La Fleche
Movie • 1930
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Movie • 1939
Abbé Gaillard
Barberousse
Movie • 1917
Trively
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
Movie • 1912
Joachim Goethal
Vent debout
Movie • 1923
In the Shadow of the Harem
Movie • 1928
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
Work
Movie • 1920
Luc Froment
Will
Movie • 1917
Louis Hérault
The Devil in the City
Movie • 1925
Marc Herner
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
Movie • 1912
Prince Algabert
The Right to Life
Movie • 1917
Jacques Alberty
The Tragic Mill
Movie • 1916
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1918
Edmond Dantès
Passport 13.444
Movie • 1931
The Empire of Diamonds
Movie • 1920
Arthur Graves
L'Empereur des pauvres
Movie • 1922
Marc Anavan
The Red Inn
Movie • 1923
Prosper Magnan
Deadly Gas
Movie • 1916
Der Maler und sein Modell
Movie • 1925
Nemrod et compagnie
Movie • 1916
The mystery of the pink villa
Movie • 1930
Langeac
The Cradle of God
Movie • 1926
The Zone of Death
Movie • 1917
The Bridge That Failed
Movie • 1914
L'Ami Fritz
Movie • 1920
Être ou ne pas être
Movie • 1922
Blanchette
Movie • 1921
Yasmina
Movie • 1927
Rue de la Paix
Movie • 1927
Ally - un millionnaire
A Night of Romance
Movie • 1925
Antonio Scapa
Jean d'Agrève
Movie • 1922
Jean d'Agrève
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self (archive footage)