Charles Chauvel

Biography

Charles Edward Chauvel OBE (7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959) was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for writing and directing the films Forty Thousand Horsemen in 1940 and Jedda in 1955. His wife, Elsa Chauvel, was a frequent collaborator on his filmmaking projects. Charles Edward Chauvel was born on 7 October 1897 in Warwick, Queensland, the son of James Allan Chauvel and his wife Susan Isabella (née Barnes), pioneer farmers in the Mutdapilly area.[1][2] He was the nephew of General Sir Harry Chauvel, Commander of the Australian Light Horse and later the Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine during World War I. His father, a grazier, at 53 also enlisted to serve in Palestine and Sinai in World War I. The Chauvels were descended from a French Huguenot family who fled France for England in 1685, and soon established a tradition of serving in the British army. The Australian Chauvels descended from a Charles Chauvel who retired from the Indian Army to New South Wales in 1839 and was a pioneer in the New England region. Chauvel was educated at the Normanby State School (now the Mutdapilly State School…

Directed

1. In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) — Director
2. Jedda (1955) — Director
3. Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) — Director
4. Sons of Matthew (1949) — Director
5. The Rats of Tobruk (1944) — Director
6. The Moth of Moonbi (1926) — Director
7. Uncivilised (1936) — Director
8. Heritage (1935) — Director
9. Greenhide (1926) — Director

Also appeared in

1. In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) — Himself
2. The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005) — Self - Producer and Director (archive footage)
3. The Moth of Moonbi (1926) — Aboriginal Stockman
4. Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn (2007) — Self (archive footage)
5. The Big Picture - The Films of Charles Chauvel (2014) — Self (archive footage)