Louis Feuillade
See also: Feuillade (homonymy)
Louis Feuillade is a Réalisateur French born the February 19th 1873 with Lunel (Herault), and dead the February 26th 1925 with Nice (the Alpes-Maritimes). It began its professional path as journalist.
Its name is associated with the famous Fantômas, character created by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre in 1913 which it was the first to be illustrated with the cinema. In a more general way, he was the first large French film realizer of adventures, exploiting the format of the serials , the same history running on several episodes.
He carried out his productions in the most various kinds. Pillar of the establishments Gaumont, where Louis Feuillade had initially entered as scenario writer by an assiduous practice of the cinema, it formed in particular Emile Cohl, Jean Durand, Leonce Perret, and even Rene Clair. It begin with films with tricks, putting its Caméra in the street often founded on burlesques continuations. Thereafter he devotes himself to historical frescos. After the Great War, its popularity goes down, for finally being categorized among the large Masters of the cinema since the Années 1950.
Its complete catalog of films includes/understands more than 700 titles known between 1906 and 1924.
Selective catalog of films
- 1906 : the Carrying one bread
- 1910: the Nativity
- 1910: the esthetic Film
- 1911: Life such as it is
- 1912: End of Robespierre
- 1913: Fantômas - In the shade of the guillotine
- 1913: Hunters of lions
- 1913: Anguish of Byzance
- 1915: the Vampires (series of 10 episodes)
- 1917: the New Mission of Judex
- 1918: Tih Minh
- 1919 : Barrabas
- 1920: Both Gamines
- 1921: Parisette
- 1921 : Seraph or naked legs
See too
in Wikipédia
- Fantômas, universe of fiction
on the Fabric
- File encinematheque.net
- Louis Feuillade on Internet Movie Database
- Biography
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