Marcel L'Herbier
Directing
Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
Known for
Directing49
movieLa Féerie des fantasmes
1975
Director
movieWhat the East Wind Saw
1954
Director
movieThe Father of the Girl
1953
Director
movieStolen Affections
1948
Director
movieQueen's Necklace
1946
Director
movieHappy Go Lucky
1946
Director
movieThe Bohemian Life
1945
Director
movieThe Honorable Catherine
1943
Director
movieFantastic Night
1942
Director
movieFoolish Husbands
1941
Director
movieComedy of Happiness
1940
Director
movieLa Mode rêvée
1940
Director
movieSavage Brigade
1939
Director
movieCordial Agreement
1939
Director
movieLand of Fire
1939
Director
movieAdrienne Lecouvreur
1938
Director
movieRasputin
1938
Director
movieForfaiture
1937
Director
movieThe Citadel of Silence
1937
Director
movieThe Great Temptation
1936
Director
movieThe New Men
1936
Director
movieThe Imperial Road
1935
Director
movieSacrifice of Honor
1935
Director
movieThe Adventurer
1934
Director
movieLe Bonheur
1934
Director
movieThe Scandal
1934
Director
movieThe Hawk
1933
Director
movieLa Femme d'une nuit
1930
Director
movieIllegitimate Child
1930
Director
moviePrincely Nights
1929
Director
movieL'Argent
1928
Director
movieLittle Devil May Care
1928
Director
movieLe Vertige
1926
Director
movieThe Late Mathias Pascal
1925
Director
movieThe Inhuman Woman
1924
Director
movieDon Juan et Faust
1922
Director
movieEl Dorado
1921
Director
moviePrometheus, Banker
1921
Director
movieThe Man of the Sea
1920
Director
movieLe Carnaval des vérités
1920
Director
movieLe Bercail
1919
Director
movieRose-France
1919
Director
Writing37
movieThe Father of the Girl
1953
Screenplay
movieThe Last Days of Pompeii
1950
Dialogue, Screenplay
movieStolen Affections
1948
Screenplay
movieFantastic Night
1942
Adaptation
movieLa Mode rêvée
1940
Screenplay
movieSavage Brigade
1939
Writer
movieRasputin
1938
Screenplay
Nights of Fire
1937
Screenplay
movieThe New Men
1936
Screenplay
movieThe Imperial Road
1935
Scenario Writer
movieSacrifice of Honor
1935
Screenplay
movieLe Bonheur
1934
Writer
movieThe Scandal
1934
Screenplay
movieThe Hawk
1933
Writer
movieScent of the Woman in Black
1931
Screenplay
movieThe Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930
Scenario Writer
movieLa Femme d'une nuit
1930
Scenario Writer
moviePrincely Nights
1929
Screenplay
movieL'Argent
1928
Writer
movieLittle Devil May Care
1928
Screenplay
movieLe Vertige
1926
Writer
movieThe Inhuman Woman
1924
Scenario Writer
movieDon Juan et Faust
1922
Screenplay
movieEl Dorado
1921
Writer
Villa Destin
1921
Scenario Writer
movieRose-France
1919
Writer
movieInfatuation
1918
Scenario Writer, Writer
movieThe Blindness of Youth
1917
Screenplay
Production5
movieZuiderzeewerken
1930
Producer
movieThe Gallery of Monsters
1924
Producer
movieThe Flood
1924
Producer
movieNews Item
1923
Producer
movieLe marchand de plaisirs
1923
Producer
Art4
movieThe Gallery of Monsters
1924
Art Direction
movieThe Flood
1924
Art Direction
movieNews Item
1923
Art Direction
movieLe marchand de plaisirs
1923
Art Direction
Acting3
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
Self (archive footage) / Self
movieAutour de l'argent
1929
Himself