Henri Diamant-Berger

Biography

Henri Diamant-Berger (9 June 1895 – 7 May 1972) was a French director, producer and screenwriter. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he directed 48 films between 1913 and 1959, produced 17 between 1925 and 1967 and wrote 21 screenplays between 1916 and 1971. Born in Paris, to a Jewish family, he studied to be a lawyer but was drawn to the motion picture business. He began his career when he co-directed the 1913 silent film short De film... en aiguilles with André Heuzé. In addition to writing screenplays, during the period from 1916 to 1919, Diamant-Berger also published and edited a film magazine and books about the movies. In 1918, he was hired by Pathé and sent to the United States to help set up the company's film laboratory at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Upon his return to France, Pathé had him set up a laboratory in Vincennes, as well as organize a film studio in Boulogne-Billancourt. In 1921, Diamant-Berger directed the film serial Les Trois Mousquetaires, one of two film versions of Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers released in 1921 (the other was Douglas Fairbanks' version) . For a short time in the mid-1920s, he made pictures in the USA, including th…

Directed

1. The Bureaucrats (1959) — Director
2. Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1953) — Director
3. Arsène Lupin, Detective (1937) — Director
4. Amazing Monsieur Fabre (1951) — Director
5. The Three Musketeers (1932) — Director
6. Gonzague (1923) — Director
7. Miquette and Her Mother (1933) — Director
8. Whirlwind of Paris (1939) — Director
9. My Priest Among the Poor (1956) — Director
10. La Madone des sleepings (1955) — Director
11. The Three Musketeers (1921) — Director
12. A Foolish Maiden (1938) — Director
13. It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) — Director
14. Paris During the War (1916) — Director
15. Par habitude (1923) — Director
16. Paris by Night (1930) — Director
17. Kindergarten (1949) — Director
18. My Priest Among the Rich (1952) — Director
19. Alone (1931) — Director
20. Rue de la Paix (1927) — Director
21. Fifty-Fifty (1925) — Director
22. Moonlight (1932) — Director
23. Tu m'oublieras (1932) — Director
24. It's all arranged (1931) — Director
25. The Miracle Child (1932) — Director
26. The Nice Adventure (1932) — Director
27. Bad Boy (1923) — Director
28. L'emprise (1924) — Director
29. Le roi de la vitesse (1924) — Director
30. L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923) — Director
31. Education of a Prince (1927) — Director
32. Jim Bougne, boxeur (1923) — Director
33. Lover's Island (1925) — Director
34. Vingt ans après (1922) — Director
35. Monsieur Gazon (1930) — Director
36. Une soirée mondaine (1917) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Rue de la Paix (1927) — Henri Diamant-Berger
2. Le Cinéma de grand-père (1995) — Self (archive footage)