Cast & creator
Léon Mathot
Best known for Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, Pour le plaisir, The Right to Life
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.
Also known as: Léon Désiré Joseph Mathot
67
film credits
2
television credits
36
1906–1978 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (69)
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Pour le plaisir
Self
1964
The Right to Life
Jacques Alberty
1917
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Abbé Gaillard
1939
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès
1918
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Director
1941The shelter
Director
1931
L'instinct
Jean Bernon
1930L'instinct
Director
1930
Vent debout
1923Will
Louis Hérault
1917
Barberousse
Trively
1917
Yasmina
1927
A Man to Kill
Director
1937
Kiss Me
Director
1932
The mystery of the pink villa
Langeac
1930
The Mascot
Director
1935
L'Ange du foyer
Director
1937
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Director
1937
Work
Luc Froment
1920
Wolves Between Them
Director
1936L'appassionata
Director
1929
L'Homme sans nom
Director
1943
The Empire of Diamonds
Arthur Graves
1920
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Director
1942
My Childish Father
Director
1953
In the Shadow of the Harem
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
1928In the Shadow of the Harem
Writer
1928In the Shadow of the Harem
Director
1928
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
Director
1934Être ou ne pas être
1922
The Devil in the City
Marc Herner
1925L'Empereur des pauvres
Marc Anavan
1922
The Zone of Death
1917
Hangman's Noose
Director
1940Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
Prince Algabert
1912
Deadly Gas
1916
Rue de la Paix
Ally - un millionnaire
1927
The Cradle of God
1926
Bouboule's Gang
Director
1931
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Director
1949
L'Ami Fritz
1920Naked as a Worm
Director
1933A Night of Romance
Antonio Scapa
1925
Cœur fidèle
Jean
1923
La Danseuse de Marrakech
Director
1950
Chéri-Bibi
Director
1938
The Red Inn
Prosper Magnan
1923
Sacred Woods
Director
1939
The Tragic Mill
1916
La Dernière chevauchée
Director
1947
The house of La Fleche
1930The Wig Chase
1906
Le Dolmen tragique
Director
1948
Count Obligado
Director
1935
La Route du bagne
Director
1945
Immediate Call
Director
1939
The Rebel
Director
1938
Jean d'Agrève
Jean d'Agrève
1922Passport 13.444
1931Passport 13.444
Director
1931Blanchette
1921
Forte tête
Director
1942
Alert Nights
Director
1946Nemrod et compagnie
1916
The Bridge That Failed
1914
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
Joachim Goethal
1912Celle qui domine
Director
1927