Cast & creator
Marcel L'Herbier
Best known for Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, Le Carnaval des vérités
Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) 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. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
Also known as: Marcel Charles Adrien L'Herbier
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Filmography (102)
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self
1978
Le Carnaval des vérités
Director
1920Le Carnaval des vérités
Writer
1920
The Scandal
Screenplay
1934The Scandal
Director
1934
The Inhuman Woman
Director
1924The Inhuman Woman
Scenario Writer
1924
L'Argent
Director
1928L'Argent
Writer
1928
El Dorado
Director
1921El Dorado
Writer
1921
The Adventurer
Director
1934
Le marchand de plaisirs
Producer
1923Le marchand de plaisirs
Art Direction
1923
The Flood
Producer
1924The Flood
Art Direction
1924
Le Vertige
Director
1926Le Vertige
Writer
1926
Rose-France
Director
1919Rose-France
Writer
1919
Prometheus, Banker
Director
1921Prometheus, Banker
Writer
1921
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Director
1930The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Scenario Writer
1930
The Man of the Sea
Director
1920The Man of the Sea
Writer
1920The Man of the Sea
Editor
1920
Little Devil May Care
Director
1928Little Devil May Care
Screenplay
1928
News Item
Art Direction
1923News Item
Producer
1923
The Late Mathias Pascal
Director
1925The Late Mathias Pascal
Writer
1925
Don Juan et Faust
Director
1922Don Juan et Faust
Screenplay
1922Villa Destin
Director
1921Villa Destin
Scenario Writer
1921
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Director
1938Adrienne Lecouvreur
Writer
1938
Forfaiture
Director
1937
Fantastic Night
Director
1942Fantastic Night
Adaptation
1942
The Blindness of Youth
Screenplay
1917
La Femme d'une nuit
Director
1930La Femme d'une nuit
Scenario Writer
1930
Zuiderzeewerken
Producer
1930
Le Bercail
Director
1919
The Imperial Road
Scenario Writer
1935The Imperial Road
Director
1935
Queen's Necklace
Director
1946
The Gallery of Monsters
Producer
1924The Gallery of Monsters
Art Direction
1924
The Bohemian Life
Director
1945
The Last Days of Pompeii
Screenplay
1950The Last Days of Pompeii
Dialogue
1950The Last Days of Pompeii
Director
1950
Scent of the Woman in Black
Director
1931Scent of the Woman in Black
Screenplay
1931
Comedy of Happiness
Writer
1940Comedy of Happiness
Director
1940
Sacrifice of Honor
Director
1935Sacrifice of Honor
Screenplay
1935
Infatuation
1918Infatuation
Scenario Writer
1918Infatuation
Writer
1918
The Citadel of Silence
Director
1937
The Father of the Girl
Director
1953The Father of the Girl
Screenplay
1953
The New Men
Director
1936The New Men
Screenplay
1936
Le Bonheur
Writer
1934Le Bonheur
Director
1934
Princely Nights
Director
1929Princely Nights
Screenplay
1929Children's Corner
Director
1936
Rasputin
Director
1938Rasputin
Screenplay
1938
La Mode rêvée
Screenplay
1940La Mode rêvée
Director
1940
Autour de l'argent
Himself
1929
Land of Fire
Director
1939
The Honorable Catherine
Director
1943
The Great Temptation
Director
1936The Great Temptation
Writer
1936
The Hawk
Writer
1933The Hawk
Director
1933
Illegitimate Child
Director
1930
Happy Go Lucky
Director
1946
What the East Wind Saw
Director
1954
La Féerie des fantasmes
Director
1975
Cordial Agreement
Director
1939
Stolen Affections
Director
1948Stolen Affections
Screenplay
1948Nights of Fire
Director
1937Nights of Fire
Screenplay
1937
Foolish Husbands
Director
1941Foolish Husbands
Writer
1941Résurrection
Director
1923Résurrection
Writer
1923
Savage Brigade
Writer
1939Savage Brigade
Director
1939