Georges Méliès
Age: 76 | From: Paris, France
Person Details
Birthday: 1861-12-08 04:15:35
Death: 1938-01-21 04:15:35
Aliases: Жорж Мельес , 조르주 멜리에스
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Paris, France
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Movie Involvements: 417
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
Georges Méliès, full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come. A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896). In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris. Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers. Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.
Most Famous Work
A Trip to the Moon
(1902) Screenplay
The Diabolic Tenant
(1909) Screenplay
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
(1907) Director
Journey Through the Impossible
(1904) Screenplay
The Astronomer's Dream
(1898) Director
The Haunted Castle
(1896) Writer
The Conquest of the Pole
(1912) Screenplay
The Man with the Rubber Head
(1901) ProducerActing
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| 2021 | The Melomaniac | |
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| 2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2012 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2011 | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | Divers | |
| 1979 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1978 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1939 | Himself (archive footage) | |
| 1929 | Himself | |
| 1912 | Devil | |
| Le professeur Mabouloff | ||
| 1911 | N/A | |
| 1909 | The Magician | |
| Le locataire diabolique | ||
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| 1908 | The Roman | |
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| The Fakir | ||
| 1907 | Satan | |
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| Professor of Astronomy | ||
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| 1906 | The Fairy Carabosse | |
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| Satan | ||
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| The Bill Poster | ||
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| Rip Van Winkle | ||
| The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited) | ||
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| The Magician | ||
| 1904 | The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller | |
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| The Magician / The Double | ||
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| 1903 | Mephistopholes | |
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| Devil | ||
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| Devil | ||
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| 1902 | Robinson Crusoé | |
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| The Hindoo Magician | ||
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| Professor Barbenfouillis / The Moon | ||
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| The Chemist / The India Rubber Head | ||
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| The Wizard | ||
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| 1900 | Beggar | |
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| Wrestler | ||
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| Le comique excentrique | ||
| Prince | ||
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| Conjurer | ||
| The Magician | ||
| 1899 | Fernand Labori | |
| The Gnome of the Clock / The Swiss at the Entrance to the Church | ||
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| The Devil | ||
| Magician | ||
| Le chevalier mystère | ||
| L'illusioniste | ||
| un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre | ||
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| The Sleeping Man (uncredited) | ||
| 1898 | Conjurer | |
| Astronomer | ||
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| Pygmalion | ||
| The Magician | ||
| Le Sculpteur | ||
| 1897 | N/A | |
| The Traveler | ||
| The Captain | ||
| The Man in the Checked Suit | ||
| Méphistophélès | ||
| 1896 | Man | |
| Mephistopheles | ||
| Himself | ||
| L'homme qui essaie de dormir | ||
| Magician | ||
| Un joueur de cartes | ||
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| 1979 | Thanks | |
| 1901 | Special Effects | |
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Camera
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1939 | Additional Photography | |
| 1912 | Director of Photography | |
| 1898 | Director of Photography | |
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Art
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1909 | Production Design | |
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