Léon Mathot
Born
5 March 1886 (140)
Place of Birth
Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Also known as
Léon Désiré Joseph Mathot
Biography
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.
Filmography (40)
My Childish Father
1953
La Danseuse de Marrakech
1950
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
1949
Le Dolmen tragique
1948
La dernière chevauchée
1947
Alert Nights
1946
La Route du bagne
1945
L'homme sans nom
1943
Forte tête
1942
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
1942
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
1941
Hangman's Noose
1940
Sacred Woods
1939
Immediate Call
1939
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939
The Rebel
1938
Chéri-Bibi
1938
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
1937
L'Ange du foyer
1937
A Man to Kill
1937
Wolves Between Them
1936
La Mascotte
1935
Count Obligado
1935
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
1934
Naked as a Worm
1933
Kiss Me
1932
Bouboule's Gang
1931
Passport 13.444
1931
The shelter
1931
The house of La Fleche
1930
L'instinct
1930
The mystery of the pink villa
1930
L'appassionata
1929
In the Shadow of the Harem
1928
Celle qui domine
1927
Rue de la Paix
1927
Yasmina
1927
The Cradle of God
1926
A Night of Romance
1925
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925