Léon Mathot
Birthday: 1886-03-05
Place of Birth: Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Biography: 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.
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Cœur fidèle
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but...
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L'instinct
Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, i...
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The house of La Fleche
After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid...
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating ...
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Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
A steel worker is told by his girl friend, that she only wants to marry a rich man. A foreign spy he...
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Vent debout
Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of...
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In the Shadow of the Harem
An emir wants revenge on a secretary who posed as a rival to a beautiful woman. He holds in his pala...
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Work
Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he foun...
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Will
The story takes place in the Parisian "High Society" of the time. Two long-time friends become enemi...
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The Devil in the City
The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is s...
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Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
Prince Algabert, upholding the traditions of his forefathers, wages a ceaseless feud against the hou...
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The Right to Life
A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his mo...
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The Tragic Mill
Propaganda spy-movie, Belgian-French production, directed by Honoré and Georges Lainé. A village gir...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Le comte de Monte Cristo (15 Episodes). Monte Cristo, based upon Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same ...
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The Empire of Diamonds
Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Ma...
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L'Empereur des pauvres
Marc Anavan, a rich young man, leads a profligate life and when he understands his fortune is about ...
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The Red Inn
Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, f...
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Deadly Gas
Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind....
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The Cradle of God
A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He dev...
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Blanchette
Blanchette, whose parents have sacrificed to give her an education, has received her teaching diplom...
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Yasmina
Yasmina, a rich Tunisian Princess, daughter of a French lady and a Muslim gentleman, is betrothed by...
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Rue de la Paix
A designer is in love with a model, who ends up creating her own fashion house, with the help of a m...
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