Renée Carl
Birthday: 1875-06-10
Place of Birth: Fontenay-le-Comte
Biography: Renée Carl (10 June 1875 – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France, and died in Paris, France. Between 1907 and 1937, she appeared in 186 films. A favorite of film director Louis Feuillade, she appeared in, at least, 150 films directed by him including the short Bébé and Bout de Zan comedies. Of the many characters she played in Feuillade's films, perhaps her most famous portrayal was that of Lady Beltham, mistress of the notorious Fantômas in the serial of the same name. She makes an uncredited appearance, as "L'Andalouse," in The Vampires. In 1922, she directed and starred in the film A Shout from the Abyss, also known as Un cri dans l'abîme. In a 1924 interview for Mon Ciné magazine, she stated that she was introduced to film-making through her friend Léonie Richard. Selected filmography
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Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...
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La Souris blanche
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they re...
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The Dwarf
A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audienc...
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The Trust, or The Battles for Money
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his cap...
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The Defect
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hos...
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Custody of the Child
Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of ...
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Bébé apache
Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to aven...
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The Obsession
A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. Th...
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The Heart and the Money
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be marr...
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Le Fils de Locuste
The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother....
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A Very Fine Lady
Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions a...
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Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a titl...
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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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Le Festin de Balthazar
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast....
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Bout-de-Zan revient du cirque
After returning from the circus, Bout-de-Zan starts doing acrobatic tricks....
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Les Larmes de Colette
After the divorce of her parents, Colette gets sent to her grandfather's who she never really knows....
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Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a gener...
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The Huguenot
Directed by Louis Feuillade (atributed) or by Etienne Arnaud (atributed), according to the Gaumont a...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Life As It Is
A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913...
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The Agony of Byzantium
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empir...
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Fantômas
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crim...
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La Maison des lions
Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fre...
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Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does inde...
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The Legend of the Spinner
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, ...
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The Legend of the Spinner
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, ...
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La Vengeance du sergent de la ville
A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to mar...
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The Hotel of Silence
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from a...
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Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean ...
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The Colonel's Account
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his expl...
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A Race for Millions
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, h...
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Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of the...
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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 Guardian of Camargue
This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand film...
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The Bachelor Girl
Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a dec...
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L'Accident
On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such...
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L’Aventurière
Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landow...
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The Seneschal's Diamond
A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two sco...
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The Legend of Prometheus
"A mythological scene with the most beautiful effect" (Nouveautés Cinématographiques, 1908)...
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At the Hour of Dawn
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed ...
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Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan conne...
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Severo Torelli
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own fa...
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Le Suicide de Bébé
The atmosphere in the living-room of Bébé's parents living-room is peaceful. Bébé is reading a child...
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The Blind Man of Jerusalem
A rich man, living in a splendid palace, in the city of Jerusalem, with his daughter and many servan...
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