Marcel L'Herbier

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1888-04-23

Deathday 1979-11-26 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Also Known As Marcel Charles Adrien L'Herbier

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 a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.

Known For

Director

1975
1954
1953
1950
1948
Stolen Affections

as Director

1946
Queen's Necklace

as Director

1946
Happy Go Lucky

as Director

1945
The Bohemian Life

as Director

1943
1942
Fantastic Night

as Director

1941
Foolish Husbands

as Director

1940
1940
La Mode rêvée

as Director

1939
Land of Fire

as Director

1939
Savage Brigade

as Director

1939
Cordial Agreement

as Director

1938
Rasputin

as Director

1938
1937
Forfaiture

as Director

1937
Nights of Fire

as Director

1937
1936
Children's Corner

as Director

1936
1936
The New Men

as Director

1935
Sacrifice of Honor

as Director

1935
The Imperial Road

as Director

1934
Le Bonheur

as Director

1934
The Adventurer

as Director

1934
Le Scandale

as Director

1933
The Hawk

as Director

1930
Illegitimate Child

as Director

1930
One night woman

as Director

1929
Princely Nights

as Director

1928
L'Argent

as Director

1928
1926
Le Vertige

as Director

1925
1924
L'Inhumaine

as Director

1923
Résurrection

as Director

1922
Don Juan et Faust

as Director

1921
El Dorado

as Director

1921
Prometheus, Banker

as Director

1921
Villa Destin

as Director

1920
The Man of the Sea

as Director

1919
Rose-France

as Director

1919
Le Bercail

as Director

Writer

1953
1950
1950
1948
Stolen Affections

as Screenplay

1942
Fantastic Night

as Adaptation

1941
1940
1940
La Mode rêvée

as Screenplay

1939
Savage Brigade

as Writer

1938
1938
Rasputin

as Screenplay

1937
Nights of Fire

as Screenplay

1936
The New Men

as Screenplay

1936
1935
The Imperial Road

as Scenario Writer

1935
Sacrifice of Honor

as Screenplay

1934
Le Bonheur

as Writer

1934
Le Scandale

as Screenplay

1933
The Hawk

as Writer

1931
1930
1930
One night woman

as Scenario Writer

1929
Princely Nights

as Screenplay

1928
Little Devil May Care

as Screenplay

1928
L'Argent

as Writer

1926
Le Vertige

as Writer

1924
L'Inhumaine

as Scenario Writer

1923
Résurrection

as Writer

1922
Don Juan et Faust

as Screenplay

1921
1921
El Dorado

as Writer

1921
Villa Destin

as Scenario Writer

1920
1919
Rose-France

as Writer

1918
Infatuation

as Scenario Writer

1918
Infatuation

as Writer

1917

Producer

1930
Zuiderzee works

as Producer

1924
1923
News Item

as Producer

1923

Art

1924
The Gallery of Monsters

as Art Direction

1923
News Item

as Art Direction

1923
Le marchand de plaisirs

as Art Direction

Editor

1920