Person Details

Birthday: 1888-04-23 17:55:05

Death: 1979-11-26 17:55:05

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 95

TV Involvements: 2


Most Famous Work

Biography

Marcel L'Herbier 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.

Most Famous Work

L'Inhumaine
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7

L'Inhumaine

(1924) Scenario Writer
Le Bonheur
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7

Le Bonheur

(1934) Writer
L'Argent
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7

L'Argent

(1928) Writer
Fantastic Night
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6

Fantastic Night

(1942) Adaptation
News Item
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8

News Item

(1923) Producer
Le marchand de plaisirs
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0

Le marchand de plaisirs

(1923) Producer
The Gallery of Monsters
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8

The Gallery of Monsters

(1924) Producer
Happy Go Lucky
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7

Happy Go Lucky

(1946) Director

Acting

Directing

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Director
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Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1953 Screenplay
1950 Screenplay
Dialogue
1948 Screenplay
1942 Adaptation
1941 Writer
1940 Writer
Screenplay
1939 Writer
1938 Writer
Screenplay
1937 Screenplay
1936 Screenplay
Writer
1935 Scenario Writer
Screenplay
1934 Writer
Screenplay
1933 Writer
1931 Screenplay
1930 Scenario Writer
Scenario Writer
1929 Screenplay
1928 Writer
1926 Writer
1925 Writer
1924 Scenario Writer
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1922 Screenplay
1921 Writer
Writer
Scenario Writer
1920 Writer
Writer
1919 Writer
1918 Scenario Writer
Writer
1917 Screenplay
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Production

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
1924 Art Direction
1923 Art Direction
Art Direction
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Editing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1920 Editor
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