Émile Chautard
Date of birth: 1864-09-06
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Emil Chautard, Emile Chautard
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.
Movie Credits
Shanghai Express
1932-02-12
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac
Estrellados
1930-07-07
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the S
The bluffer
1932-11-03
Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930-06-20
A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the work
The Green Specter
1930-05-07
A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being kill
Whispering Sage
1927-03-20
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W.
The California Trail
1933-03-24
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Command
Blonde or Brunette
1927-01-08
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
The son of the other
1932-03-04
A doomed love story between a top model and a handsome young man. Born on a liner between New York a
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931-11-06
Wonder Bar
1934-03-31
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t
Just Like Heaven
1930-10-21
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usu
The Three Musketeers
1933-04-07
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after
The Devil's in Love
1933-07-21
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andr
The Common Law
1931-07-17
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent pas
A Man from Wyoming
1930-07-12
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I
Cock of the Air
1932-01-23
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Tiger Rose
1929-12-21
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
The Big Trail
1931-03-29
A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The Big Tr
The Little Cafe
1931-01-20
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris café owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a wait
Paris at Midnight
1926-04-17
In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts o
The Solitaire Man
1933-09-22
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered
Upstream
1927-01-30
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barr
Lilac Time
1928-10-18
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit
The Yellow Ticket
1931-10-30
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British
The Noose
1928-01-29
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his b
Design for Living
1933-12-29
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Marianne
1929-08-24
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she
Morocco
1930-11-14
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disi
Man of Two Worlds
1934-01-13
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
7th Heaven
1927-09-10
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered
The Man from Yesterday
1932-06-24
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr
Now We're in the Air
1927-10-21
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. T
The Road to Reno
1931-09-25
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who
Caught in the Fog
1928-08-25
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a
Adoration
1928-12-02
Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris
House of Horror
1929-04-28
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The
The Big House
1931-05-14
French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role,
His Tiger Lady
1928-05-27
A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a raja
The Love Mart
1927-12-18
Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber
My Official Wife
1926-10-16
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the
Out of the Ruins
1928-08-19
He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the sha
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926-08-14
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback,
The Flaming Forest
1926-11-21
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict
Times Square
1929-09-01
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926-09-30
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could w
Counter-investigation
1930-12-05
Blonde Venus
1932-09-23
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire
Échec au roi
1930-12-27
Princess Anne, daughter of the King of Bellonia, loves the secretary Granton, but the proud Queen op
The Olympic Hero
1928-06-15
A story with a college background revolves around sprinter Charles Paddock, utilizing newsreel foota