FILM DIRECTOR

Marcel L'Herbier

1888 - 1979

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Marcel L'Herbier (French: [lɛʁbje]; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel L'Herbier has received more than 92,659 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 24 in 2019). Marcel L'Herbier is the 545th most popular film director (down from 474th in 2019), the 2,956th most popular biography from France (down from 2,575th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 545 out of 2,041. Before him are Olivier Assayas, Dadasaheb Phalke, Wojciech Has, Lindsay Anderson, Henning Carlsen, and James Wan. After him are Kenneth Anger, Luigi Zampa, Ralph Bakshi, László Benedek, Martin Ritt, and Ildikó Enyedi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 111. Before him are José Félix Estigarribia, Domenico Tardini, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Léon Scieur, Sophus Nielsen, and Carl Hilpert. After him are Michał Sopoćko, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Lead Belly, Sigfried Giedion, Árpád Szakasits, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Among people deceased in 1979, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 104. Before him are Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Agop Dilâçar, Wilfred Bion, Jean Rhys, Helmut Hasse, and August Heissmeyer. After him are James J. Gibson, Dolores Costello, Leonid Bykov, Zhang Guotao, Antun Augustinčić, and Fulton J. Sheen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 2,956 out of 6,770. Before him are Audomar (600), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931), François Coty (1874), Joan, Countess of Toulouse (1220), and Jean Guitton (1901). After him are Pierre Barouh (1934), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Marc Seguin (1786), and Louis Le Chatelier (1815).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Marcel L'Herbier ranks 82. Before him are Marcel Camus (1912), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Benoît Jacquot (1947), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), Alain Corneau (1943), and Olivier Assayas (1955). After him are Georges Lautner (1926), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Albert Lamorisse (1922), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Robert Enrico (1931), and Jean Rollin (1938).

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Filmography

L'Argent
Director
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Dec 25o 19286.9 / 10
L'Inhumaine
Director
A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen. At her lavish parties she enjoys their amorous attentions but she remains emotionally aloof and heartlessly taunts them. When she is told that Norsen has killed himself because of her, she shows no feelings. At her next concert she is booed by an audience outraged at her coldness. She visits the vault in which Norsen's body lies, and as she admits her feelings for him she discovers that he is alive; his death was feigned. Djorah is jealous of their new relationship and causes Claire to be bitten by a poisonous snake. Her body is brought to Norsen's laboratory, where he, by means of his scientific inventions, restores Claire to life.
Dec 12o 19246.8 / 10
The Late Mathias Pascal
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Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
Jul 2o 19256.9 / 10