Jacques Feyder

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-07-21 (63 years old)

Deathday

1948-05-24

Place of Birth

Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium

Jacques Feyder

Biography

Jacques Feyder , was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928. Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, at age twenty-five however he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film, adopting the name Jacques Feyder. He joined the Gaumont Film Company and in 1914 he became an assistant director with Gaston Ravel. He started d...

Acting

Production

1929

The Kiss

as Director

1935

1936

1922

Crainquebille

as Producer

1922

Crainquebille

as Art Direction

1922

Crainquebille

as Director

1922

Crainquebille

as Writer

1935

Pension Mimosas

as Scenario Writer

1925

1925

Faces of Children

as Art Direction

1925

1925

1937

1928

Thérèse Raquin

as Director

1921

L'Atlantide

as Director

1931

Daybreak

as Director

1931

Son of India

as Director

1934

The Great Game

as Director

1926

Gribiche

as Director

1929

1930

Anna Christie

as Director

1936

1938

Fahrendes Volk

as Director

1935

Pension Mimosas

as Director

1926

Carmen

as Director

1926

Carmen

as Editor

1926

Carmen

as Screenplay

1915

Feet and Hands

as Assistant Director

1916

Friendly Advice

as Director

1946

1934

The Great Game

as Screenplay

1925

The Red Head

as Adaptation

1918

1921

L'Atlantide

as Writer

1944

1943

Matura-Reise

as Supervising Producer

1916

1928

Thérèse Raquin

as Producer

1931

The Big House

as Director

1939

Law of the North

as Director

1935

Pension Mimosas

as Screenplay

1938

1930

Olympia

as Director

1926

Gribiche

as Writer

1930

1917

1923

The Portrait

as Director

1929

1923

The Portrait

as Writer

1938

Fahrendes Volk

as Screenplay

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