Léonce Perret
Birthday: 1880-03-14
Place of Birth: Niort,France
Biography: Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Léonce Perret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
La Rançon du Bonheur
The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great mi...
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The Child of Paris
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Pa...
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Le Mariage de Suzie
Suzie takes a cruise and finds a flirt behind her guardian's back....
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The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts....
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L'Express matrimonial
Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way....
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Le Portrait de Mireille
A talented painter spends his vacation in Arles, where he paints a portrait of a beautiful Arlesian ...
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Léonce Loves Morels
A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suz...
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The Red Chrysanthemum
Two suitors bring flowers to their girl in hopes of winning her love....
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The Autumn of the Heart
Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love...
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The Pins
Leonce Perret brings home a present for wife Suzanne Grandais. It turns out to be point guards for h...
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André Chénier
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined durin...
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The Legend of Daphne
An ancient Greek legend comes to life, courtesy of the Gaumont studios....
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Le Festin de Balthazar
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast....
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Léonce: Cinematographer
Leonce works at the Gaumont studios as star actor and his wife suspects him of being unfaithful. She...
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Léonce et Toto
Léonce’s wife receives a tiny chihuahua as a gift and immediately dotes on it, to the point of putti...
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The Roman Orgy
The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests....
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The Seven Deadly Sins
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins....
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The Crutches
A film crew goes to a mansion to shoot a movie. The actor playing the thief is confused and is shot ...
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Mariage par le cinématographe
Comedy starring Yvette Andréyor and the director, Léonce Perret....
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A Spiritualistic Seance
M. Instead, is a spiritualist and decides to invite some friends to a seance. His daughter, Lucy, ho...
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Léonce poète
Leonce Perret tries to kill himself. After he fails, he decides to pour out his agony on paper. Howe...
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Les bretelles
Unbeknownst to Léonce, Suzanne allows Gaumont to use their villa garden for a day of filming. Léonc...
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Un nuage
Léonce and Suzanne are having a very sweet supper together. But then Leonce refuses to give her a pu...
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