Léon Mathot
Acting · Born 1886-03-05 · age 82 at death · Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.
Titles
Cœur fidèle
The Red Inn
Le Dolmen tragique
Chéri-Bibi
The Devil in the City
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
Vent debout
In the Shadow of the Harem
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
The Tragic Mill
Passport 13.444
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
The Wig Chase
L'instinct
The house of La Fleche
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Barberousse
Work
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Empire of Diamonds
L'Empereur des pauvres
Deadly Gas
Der Maler und sein Modell
Nemrod et compagnie
The mystery of the pink villa
The Cradle of God
The Bridge That Failed
L'Ami Fritz
Être ou ne pas être
Blanchette
Yasmina
Rue de la Paix
A Night of Romance
Count Obligado
La Mascotte
Sacred Woods
La Route du bagne
Wolves Between Them
The Rebel
Immediate Call
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
A Man to Kill
L'Ange du foyer
Naked as a Worm
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
The shelter
L'appassionata
Bouboule's Gang
Kiss Me
Celle qui domine
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Hangman's Noose
L'Homme sans nom
Forte tête
Alert Nights
La dernière chevauchée
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
La Danseuse de Marrakech
My Childish Father
The Right to Life