Léon Mathot

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Cœur fidèle (1923) — Jean
2. The Red Inn (1923) — Prosper Magnan
3. The Devil in the City (1925) — Marc Herner
4. Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel (1912) — Joachim Goethal
5. Vent debout (1923)
6. In the Shadow of the Harem (1928) — L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
7. Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg (1912) — Prince Algabert
8. The Tragic Mill (1916)
9. Passport 13.444 (1931)
10. The Wig Chase (1906)
11. L'instinct (1930) — Jean Bernon
12. The house of La Fleche (1930)
13. Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur (1939) — Abbé Gaillard
14. Barberousse (1917) — Trively
15. Work (1920) — Luc Froment
16. The Count of Monte Cristo (1918) — Edmond Dantès
17. The Empire of Diamonds (1920) — Arthur Graves
18. L'Empereur des pauvres (1922) — Marc Anavan
19. Deadly Gas (1916)
20. Der Maler und sein Modell (1925)
21. Nemrod et compagnie (1916)
22. The mystery of the pink villa (1930) — Langeac
23. The Cradle of God (1926)
24. The Bridge That Failed (1914)
25. L'Ami Fritz (1920)
26. Être ou ne pas être (1922)
27. Blanchette (1921)
28. Yasmina (1927)
29. Rue de la Paix (1927) — Ally - un millionnaire
30. A Night of Romance (1925) — Antonio Scapa
31. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)
32. Will (1917) — Louis Hérault
33. The Right to Life (1917) — Jacques Alberty
34. The Zone of Death (1917)
35. Jean d'Agrève (1922) — Jean d'Agrève
36. Pour le plaisir (1964) — Self

Directed

1. Le Dolmen tragique (1948) — Director
2. Chéri-Bibi (1938) — Director
3. Passport 13.444 (1931) — Director
4. In the Shadow of the Harem (1928) — Director
5. Fromont Young and Risler Elder (1941) — Director
6. Count Obligado (1935) — Director
7. The Mascot (1935) — Director
8. Sacred Woods (1939) — Director
9. La Route du bagne (1945) — Director
10. Wolves Between Them (1936) — Director
11. The Rebel (1938) — Director
12. Immediate Call (1939) — Director
13. Aloha, the Song of the Islands (1937) — Director
14. A Man to Kill (1937) — Director
15. L'Ange du foyer (1937) — Director
16. Naked as a Worm (1933) — Director
17. Bouboule 1er, roi nègre (1934) — Director
18. L'instinct (1930) — Director
19. The shelter (1931) — Director
20. L'appassionata (1929) — Director
21. Bouboule's Gang (1931) — Director
22. Kiss Me (1932) — Director
23. Celle qui domine (1927) — Director
24. Cartacalha, reine des gitans (1942) — Director
25. Hangman's Noose (1940) — Director
26. L'Homme sans nom (1943) — Director
27. Forte tête (1942) — Director
28. Alert Nights (1946) — Director
29. La dernière chevauchée (1947) — Director
30. L'Homme aux mains d'argile (1949) — Director
31. La Danseuse de Marrakech (1950) — Director
32. My Childish Father (1953) — Director