Marcel L'Herbier

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-04-23 (91 years old)

Deathday

1979-11-26

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Marcel L'Herbier

Biography

Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of...

Acting

Production

1954

1918

Infatuation

as Scenario Writer

1937

Forfaiture

as Director

1942

Fantastic Night

as Director

1928

L'Argent

as Director

1924

L'Inhumaine

as Scenario Writer

1930

1924

L'Inhumaine

as Director

1921

El Dorado

as Director

1940

1940

1920

1928

1926

Le Vertige

as Director

1921

1921

1917

1936

1941

Foolish Husbands

as Director

1941

1934

Le Bonheur

as Writer

1934

Le Bonheur

as Director

1936

1919

Rose-France

as Director

1919

Le Bercail

as Director

1922

1929

Princely Nights

as Director

1923

News Item

as Producer

1923

News Item

as Art Direction

1935

1930

1939

Land of Fire

as Director

1930

Zuiderzee works

as Producer

1936

The New Men

as Director

1939

1939

Savage Brigade

as Director

1935

The Imperial Road

as Scenario Writer

1935

1938

Rasputin

as Director

1934

The Adventurer

as Director

1940

La Mode rêvée

as Director

1940

La Mode rêvée

as Screenplay

1923

Résurrection

as Writer

1923

Résurrection

as Director

1935

Sacrifice of Honor

as Screenplay

1934

Le Scandale

as Screenplay

1933

The Hawk

as Writer

1945

1918

Infatuation

as Writer

1937

Nights of Fire

as Director

1939

1920

1950

1953

1946

Queen's Necklace

as Director

1953

1936

The New Men

as Screenplay

1924

The Gallery of Monsters

as Art Direction

1930

1938

1937

Nights of Fire

as Screenplay

1921

El Dorado

as Writer

1919

Rose-France

as Writer

1946

Happy Go Lucky

as Director

1942

Fantastic Night

as Adaptation

1929

Princely Nights

as Screenplay

1937

1934

Le Scandale

as Director

1933

The Hawk

as Director

1948

Stolen Affections

as Screenplay

1948

1928

1921

Villa Destin

as Director

1926

Le Vertige

as Writer

1930

La Femme d'une nuit

as Scenario Writer

1921

Villa Destin

as Scenario Writer

1920

1922

Don Juan et Faust

as Screenplay

1928

L'Argent

as Writer

1938

1923

Le marchand de plaisirs

as Art Direction

1938

Rasputin

as Screenplay

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