Birthday: 1879-02-22
Place of Birth: Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Biography: Henri André Chapais, known as André Deed (22 February 1879 – 4 October 1940), was a French actor and director, best known for his Foolshead comedies, produced in the 1900s and 1910s. André Deed was one of the first named actors in cinema, and his film series based around Foolshead were a global success.
Boireau's flamboyant military costume gets stuck everywhere he goes....
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Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil...
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Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking t...
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Cretinetti tries to bring a gift to his sweetheart. He loses the flowers. The tableware set breaks i...
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Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they hav...
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A drunk man is going to buy more drink at his wife's expense, which he takes advantage of to get mor...
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Andre Deed sees Valentina Frascaroli shoot a man who annoys her in the street and is enchanted. He d...
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A pasha invites a photographer to his harem. A belly dancer performs for him, and then seduces him, ...
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In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty g...
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Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the gr...
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Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in blac...
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A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One...
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The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled ...
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At a prize fight, Deed gets int a fight of his own with two other spectators and gets thrown out. He...
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Andre Deed was a leading player in short Italian comedies in this period under the character name of...
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Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Ita...
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The set-up here is that Cretinetti has been invited to a friend's wedding and dressed up in a fine n...
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Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas.......
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In this picture we see a man who is vested with authority to enforce the law, but, unlike the usual ...
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Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesq...
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André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs ...
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A scientist's reckless experiment turns a man into a half-ape creature, whose monkey-like antics bri...
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The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which...
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Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and ...
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Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks....
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The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly e...
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A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts ...
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Short comedy in which Gribouille (Cretinetti) loses his two lovers to two gentlemen....
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The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the st...
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Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous....
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Jim's mother brings him to an architect's office to secure a position for him, and he is accepted. A...
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Boireau, apprentice mason, and a coalman fight it out for the affections of the cook....
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Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti (Gibrouille). He is organizing a Christmas party...
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Another nice Christmas comedy, produced by Itala Films, with André Deed in his famous Cretinetti cha...
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A quarrel in a club room leads to a duel between two of the characters. Honor is satisfied by the us...
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In the Le Mans railway station, Oscar Ribouis is waiting for the connection that will lead him to Re...
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Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young ...
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An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory....
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In this comedy we see a fellow giving orders to the cook to put plenty of garlic in his food, and sh...
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André Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolg...
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Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoy...
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At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch sud...
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The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury...
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Boireau makes a mess, gets pushed around and ends up a gingerbread man....
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Andre Deed loves his cigars, but not everyone does. He heads off to a tea social, where the hostess ...
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