Émile Chautard
Acting
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.
Known for
Acting51
movieWonder Bar
1934
Pierre (uncredited)
movieMan of Two Worlds
1934
Natkusiak
movieDesign for Living
1933
Train Conductor (uncredited)
movieThe Solitaire Man
1933
French Hotel Clerk
movieThe Devil's in Love
1933
Father Carmion
movieThe Three Musketeers
1933
Gen. Pelletier
movieThe California Trail
1933
Don Marco Ramirez
movieThe bluffer
1932
Oscar Brown
movieBlonde Venus
1932
Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
movieShanghai Express
1932
Major Lenard
movieCock of the Air
1932
French Ambassador
movieThe Yellow Ticket
1931
Headwaiter
movieThe Common Law
1931
Doorman (uncredited)
movieThe Little Cafe
1931
Philibert
Échec au roi
1930
King Eric VIII
movieMorocco
1930
French General (uncredited)
movieMysterious Mr. Parkes
1930
Sylvester Corbett
movieA Man from Wyoming
1930
French Mayor
movieTiger Rose
1929
Frenchman
movieMarianne
1929
Père Joseph
movieHouse of Horror
1929
Old Miser
movieAdoration
1928
Murajev
movieLilac Time
1928
The Mayor
movieCaught in the Fog
1928
The Old Man
movieOut of the Ruins
1928
Père Gilbert
The Olympic Hero
1928
Grandpa Brown
movieHis Tiger Lady
1928
Stage Manager
movieThe Noose
1928
Priest
movieThe Love Mart
1927
Louis Frobelle
movieNow We're in the Air
1927
Monsieur Chelaine
movie7th Heaven
1927
Father Chevillon
movieWhispering Sage
1927
José Arastrade
movieUpstream
1927
Campbell-Mandare
movieBlonde or Brunette
1927
Father-in-Law
movieThe Flaming Forest
1926
André Audemard
movieMy Official Wife
1926
Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
movieParis at Midnight
1926
Père Goriot
Directing51
movieUntamed Youth
1924
Director
movieDaytime Wives
1923
Director
movieForsaking All Others
1922
Director
movieYouth to Youth
1922
Director
movieThe Glory of Clementina
1922
Director
movieLiving Lies
1922
Director
movieThe Black Panther's Cub
1921
Director
movieWhispering Shadows
1921
Director
movieEyes of the Soul
1919
Director
movieThe Marriage Price
1919
Director
moviePaid in Full
1919
Director
movieHis Parisian Wife
1919
Director
movieOut of the Shadow
1919
Director
movieThe Ordeal of Rosetta
1918
Director
movieThe House of Glass
1918
Director
movieThe Marionettes
1918
Director
movieThe Eternal Temptress
1917
Director
movieMagda
1917
Director
movieUnder False Colors
1917
Director
movieThe Fires of Youth
1917
Director
movieForget-Me-Not
1917
Director
movieThe Family Honor
1917
Director
movieThe Web of Desire
1917
Director
movieA Hungry Heart
1917
Director
movieThe Man Who Forgot
1917
Director
movieAll Man
1916
Director
movieThe Heart of a Hero
1916
Director
movieFriday the 13th
1916
Director
movieSudden Riches
1916
Director
movieLove's Crucible
1916
Director
movieThe Rack
1915
Director
movieThe Little Dutch Girl
1915
Director
movieThe Boss
1915
Director
movieA Cashier's Novel
1914
Director
The Eaglet
1913
Director
movieHearts and Eyes
1911
Director
Writing6
movieThe Mystery of the Yellow Room
1919
Screenplay
movieThe Man Who Forgot
1917
Scenario Writer
movieThe Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1912
Scenario Writer
movieHearts and Eyes
1911
Writer
Dog and Wolf
1911
Scenario Writer
Production2
movieYouth to Youth
1922
Producer