Georges Pallu

Biography

Lawyer and Army officer, he was personal secretary to the French Minister for Public Instruction, before he started working in films. He was contracted by Production company Invicta Film, from April 1, 1918, for one year as director ("metteur-en-scène"), to adapt Portuguese literary texts to the cinema. His contract was renewed until the company stopped film production in 15 February 1924. He was involved in buying equipment for the company, namely when he went to Paris with a major company partner to buy two development machines, and in negotiations to sell films in France. His first work of adapting the novel A Rosa do Adro (1919) to the cinema was so appreciated, that the Portuguese President confered upon him the honorary title of Knight of the Order of Christ ("Diário do Governo", 2nd Series, 28-12-1919).

Directed

1. A Rosa do Adro (1919) — Director
2. Ceux De Demain (1938) — Director
3. Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca (1921) — Director
4. Barbanegra (1920) — Director
5. O Destino (1923) — Director
6. Amor de Perdição (1921) — Director
7. Un gosse en or (1939) — Director
8. La Fille de la Madelon (1937) — Director
9. La Rose effeuillée (1937) — Director
10. Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame (1933) — Director
11. La vierge du rocher (1934) — Director
12. The Strange Bride (1930) — Director
13. La vie merveilleuse de Bernadette (1929) — Director
14. La rose effeuillée (1926) — Director
15. Le train de 8 H 47 (1927) — Director
16. Le permis d'aimer (1929) — Director
17. Le secret d'une mère (1926) — Director
18. Phi-Phi (1927) — Director
19. Les cœurs héroïques (1927) — Director
20. Sister of Mercy (1929) — Director
21. O Primo Basílio (1923) — Director
22. Cláudia (1923) — Director
23. Frei Bonifácio (1918) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Tinoco em Bolandas (1924)