Léon Mathot

from Roubaix, Nord, France

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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.

Timeline

1953Aged 68

  • Poster for My Childish Father

    Director

1950Aged 65

  • Poster for La Danseuse de Marrakech

    Director

1949Aged 64

  • Poster for L'Homme aux mains d'argile

    Director

1948Aged 63

  • Poster for Le Dolmen tragique

    Director

1947Aged 62

  • Poster for La Dernière chevauchée

    Director

1946Aged 61

  • Poster for Alert Nights

    Director

1945Aged 60

  • Poster for La Route du bagne

    Director

1943Aged 58

  • Poster for L'Homme sans nom

    Director

1942Aged 57

  • Poster for Cartacalha, reine des gitans

    Director

  • Poster for Forte tête

    Director

1941Aged 56

  • Poster for Fromont Young and Risler Elder

    Director

1940Aged 55

  • Poster for Hangman's Noose

    Director

1939Aged 54

  • Poster for Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

    Abbé Gaillard

  • Poster for Immediate Call

    Director

  • Poster for Sacred Woods

    Director

1938Aged 53

  • Poster for Chéri-Bibi

    Director

  • Poster for The Rebel

    Director

1937Aged 52

  • Poster for A Man to Kill

    Director

  • Poster for L'Ange du foyer

    Director

  • Poster for Aloha, the Song of the Islands

    Director

1936Aged 51

  • Poster for Wolves Between Them

    Director

1935Aged 50

  • Poster for Count Obligado

    Director

  • Poster for The Mascot

    Director

1934Aged 49

  • Poster for Bouboule 1er, roi nègre

    Director

1933Aged 48

1932Aged 47

  • Poster for Kiss Me

    Director

1931Aged 46

1930Aged 45

  • Poster for The mystery of the pink villa

    Langeac

  • Poster for L'instinct

    Jean Bernon

  • Poster for The house of La Fleche

    (Unknown)

1929Aged 44

1928Aged 43

  • Poster for In the Shadow of the Harem

    L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser

1927Aged 42

1926Aged 41

  • Poster for The Cradle of God

    (Unknown)

1925Aged 40

1923Aged 38

  • Poster for Vent debout

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Red Inn

    Prosper Magnan

  • Poster for Cœur fidèle

    Jean

1922Aged 37

1921Aged 36

1920Aged 35

  • Poster for Work

    Luc Froment

  • Poster for L'Ami Fritz

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Empire of Diamonds

    Arthur Graves

1918Aged 33

  • Poster for The Count of Monte Cristo

    Edmond Dantès

1917Aged 32

  • Poster for The Right to Life

    Jacques Alberty

  • Poster for Barberousse

    Trively

  • Will

    Louis Hérault

  • Poster for The Zone of Death

    (Unknown)

1916Aged 31

1914Aged 29

  • Poster for The Bridge That Failed

    (Unknown)

1912Aged 27

1906Aged 21

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