Jean de Limur

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-11-13 (89 years old)

Deathday

1976-06-05

Place of Birth

Vouhé, Charente-Maritime, France

Jean de Limur

Biography

Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929). A French army officer and a designer, he first came to the United States with his parents, Count and Countess de Limur in September 1920; their destination was Burlingame, California, where lived Jean's brother André (who married Ethel, daughter of William Henry Crocker). Source: Article "Jean de Limur" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting

1922

The Worldly Madonna

as Toni Lorenz

1923

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

as Man in Nightclub (uncredited)

1924

Human Desires

as Henri Regnier

1924

The Arab

as Hossein

1933

Don Quixote

as The Duke

Production

1929

Jealousy

as Director

1929

The Letter

as Director

1936

The Tomboy

as Director

1935

1943

Apparizione

as Director

1945

The Great Pack

as Director

1928

Three Sinners

as Adaptation

1939

1938

1939

Petite peste

as Director

1936

1936

1936

Le coup de trois

as Director

1934

L'amour en cage

as Director

1933

Paprika

as Director

1931

Mr. Duke

as Director

1930

1931

Circulate!

as Director

1942

L'âge d'or

as Director

1928

Three Sinners

as Writer

1929

The Letter

as Dialogue

1929

The Letter

as Editor

© All Rights Reserved 2025