Georges Méliès

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1861-12-09 (77 years old)

Deathday

1938-01-21

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Georges Méliès

Biography

Georges Méliès (December 9, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come.  A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used t...

Acting

1902

A Trip to the Moon

as Professor Barbenfouillis / The Moon

1904

1979

Cinematógrafo 1900

as Self (archive footage)

2014

El hombre que quiso ser Segundo

as Self (archive footage)

1904

The Untamable Whiskers

as Man with whiskers

1905

1900

The One-Man Band

as All the members of the orchestra

1899

A Midnight Episode

as The Sleeping Man (uncredited)

1900

Joan of Arc

as Père de Jeanne

1897

Faust and Marguerite

as Méphistophélès

1896

A Terrible Night

as L'homme qui essaie de dormir

1896

1897

1898

1899

Cinderella

as The Gnome of the Clock / The Swiss at the Entrance to the Church

1908

1912

The Conquest of the Pole

as Le professeur Mabouloff

1896

Le manoir du diable

as Mephistopheles

2012

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

as Self (archive footage)

1907

Delirium in a Studio

as Ali Barbouyou

1909

The Diabolic Tenant

as Le locataire diabolique

1901

The Man with the Rubber Head

as The Chemist / The India Rubber Head

1899

1899

1906

The Hilarious Posters

as The Bill Poster

1899

The Dreyfus Affair

as Fernand Labori

1900

Up-to-Date Spiritualism

as Le comique excentrique

1903

1897

The Bewitched Inn

as The Traveler

1909

Whimsical Illusions

as The Magician

1907

2021

Méliès: Tales of Terror

as The Melomaniac

1896

Playing Cards

as Un joueur de cartes

1901

Bluebeard

as Barbe-bleue

1906

The Witch

as The Fairy Carabosse

1903

Faust in the Underworld

as Mephistopholes

1899

The Mysterious Knight

as Le chevalier mystère

1900

1929

Gala Méliès

as Himself

1903

The Kingdom of the Fairies

as Prince Bel-Azor

1907

1901

A Maiden's Paradise

as The Wizard

1906

A Roadside Inn

as Drunk Traveler

1898

1896

1897

1939

Violons d'Ingres

as Himself (archive footage)

2011

The Extraordinary Voyage

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1899

The Mysterious Portrait

as L'illusioniste

1896

Conjuring

as Himself

1904

The Christmas Angel

as The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller

1901

1902

The Human Fly

as The Hindoo Magician

1899

Cleopatra's Tomb

as un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre

1905

Rip's Dream

as Rip Van Winkle

1902

Robinson Crusoe

as Robinson Crusoé

1905

The Palace of the Arabian Nights

as The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited)

2021

The Méliès Mystery

as Self (archive footage)

1903

1900

1900

The Magic Book

as The Magician

1898

The Famous Box Trick

as The Magician

1898

The Magician

as Le Sculpteur

1897

Between Calais and Dover

as The Man in the Checked Suit

1904

The Firefall

as Satan

2019

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

as Magician (archive footage from "The Vanishing Lady")

1905

Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus

as Ulysses (uncredited)

1908

French Cops Learning English

as The Police Inspector

1908

Not Guilty

as The Old Farmer

1997

The Magic of Méliès

as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

1907

The Good Luck of a 'Souse'

as Le commissaire de police

1908

The New Lord of the Village

as Le fantôme de César

1897

A Funny Mahometan

as The Funny Mahometan

Production

1902

1902

A Trip to the Moon

as Screenplay

1902

1902

A Trip to the Moon

as Production Design

1899

Cinderella

as Producer

1899

Cinderella

as Production Design

1901

Bluebeard

as Adaptation

1901

Bluebeard

as Producer

1901

Bluebeard

as Production Design

1904

1904

1904

1900

1904

1904

The Mermaid

as Director

1904

1905

The Black Imp

as Director

1903

The Monster

as Director

1905

Rip's Dream

as Producer

1905

Rip's Dream

as Production Design

1900

Joan of Arc

as Producer

1900

Joan of Arc

as Production Design

1902

Robinson Crusoe

as Producer

1902

Robinson Crusoe

as Production Design

1903

The Infernal Cauldron

as Production Design

1899

The Pillar of Fire

as Production Design

1899

The Pillar of Fire

as Screenplay

1900

Joan of Arc

as Screenplay

1902

Robinson Crusoe

as Screenplay

1903

1905

Rip's Dream

as Screenplay

1906

The Witch

as Production Design

1909

1909

The Diabolic Tenant

as Screenplay

1909

The Diabolic Tenant

as Production Design

1909

1909

Whimsical Illusions

as Screenplay

1909

Whimsical Illusions

as Production Design

1899

1903

1903

1909

1906

1903

The Melomaniac

as Director

1901

Bluebeard

as Director

1906

1900

The One-Man Band

as Director

1899

1907

Good Glue Sticks

as Director

1903

1903

1896

Playing Cards

as Director

1896

A Terrible Night

as Director

1896

1896

A Terrible Night

as Producer

1896

A Terrible Night

as Production Design

1896

1896

A Nightmare

as Director

1897

1897

After the Ball

as Director

1898

1898

1899

1899

1899

1899

1898

The Magician

as Director

1899

1900

1900

Joan of Arc

as Director

1900

The Magic Book

as Director

1902

1902

1902

The Human Fly

as Director

1903

1900

1900

1901

1901

1903

1903

Apparitions

as Director

1903

1908

1904

1899

Cinderella

as Director

1896

Post No Bills

as Director

1899

1900

1912

1896

1896

1896

1896

Le manoir du diable

as Production Design

1902

Robinson Crusoe

as Director

1909

1897

On the Roof

as Director

1897

1897

1901

Off to Bedlam

as Director

1903

1903

1904

The Firefall

as Director

1903

1904

1907

1905

1905

1905

The Magic Dice

as Director

1899

1899

1904

1903

1903

1903

1903

1903

1904

1904

1904

Tit for Tat

as Director

1904

1904

1905

A Crazy Composer

as Director

1905

Rip's Dream

as Director

1906

Punch and Judy

as Director

1906

Soap Bubbles

as Director

1906

A Roadside Inn

as Director

1906

The Witch

as Director

1906

1906

1906

1907

1907

Rogues' Tricks

as Director

1907

Satan in Prison

as Director

1908

1908

Not Guilty

as Director

1908

The Miser

as Director

1908

1908

1908

1908

1908

His First Job

as Director

1908

1912

1909

1898

1897

The Bewitched Inn

as Screenplay

1897

1897

The Bewitched Inn

as Production Design

1897

1896

Playing Cards

as Writer

1912

The Conquest of the Pole

as Director of Photography

1899

Cleopatra's Tomb

as Director

1899

1904

1898

1899

1899

1902

1900

1901

1897

1897

1899

1901

1901

1898

The Four Troublesome Heads

as Special Effects

1904

The Impossible Voyage

as Production Design

1939

Violons d'Ingres

as Additional Photography

1929

Gala Méliès

as Director

1979

ORG

as Thanks

1902

1901

1901

1901

1901

Fun in Court

as Director

1901

A Good Trick

as Director

1901

1902

1905

STOP THIEF!

as Director

1908

Excursion to the Moon

as Original Film Writer

1896

A Nightmare

as Producer

1896

A Nightmare

as Editor

1896

A Nightmare

as Production Design

1907

Tunneling the English Channel

as Production Design

1899

Murder Will Out

as Director

1905

The Black Imp

as Producer

1898

1897

1897

Boxing Match

as Director

1896

1898

1902

1908

L'agent gelé

as Director

1896

1898

1898

Panorama from Top of a Moving Train

as Director of Photography

1896

Conjuring

as Director

1896

1896

1896

The Vanishing Lady

as Production Design

1906

The Witch

as Writer

1906

The Witch

as Producer

1897

1905

1906

1902

The Human Fly

as Producer

1903

The Kingdom of the Fairies

as Production Design

1906

The Merry Frolics of Satan

as Production Design

1897

1903

1903

1900

Cooks fight

as Director

1900

The Flea

as Director

1900

The Bath

as Director

1900

The Stick

as Director

1904

1904

1904

1904

1904

1904

The Shadow Lady

as Director

1905

1905

1904

1905

1907

1907

1898

The Astronomer's Dream

as Production Designer

1898

The Astronomer's Dream

as Special Effects

1898

1898

1897

Le château hanté

as Screenplay

1897

1897

Le château hanté

as Production Design

1900

The One-Man Band

as Producer

1900

The One-Man Band

as Special Effects

1906

Who Looks, Pays!

as Director

1906

1906

1907

1907

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-

A Lover's Hazing

as Director

1908

1908

1908

1908

1908

Two Crazy Bugs

as Director

1908

The Hotel Mix-Up

as Director

1908

1908

1908

The Helping Hand

as Director

1908

1908

1908

1908

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Life in Jaffa

as Director

1908

1908

Moitié de polka

as Director

1908

1908

The Living Doll

as Director

1897

1897

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