Léon Mathot
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.
The Wig Chase
Cœur fidèle
(Jean)
L'instinct
(Jean Bernon)
The house of La Fleche
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
(Abbé Gaillard)
Barberousse
(Trively)
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
(Joachim Goethal)
Vent debout
In the Shadow of the Harem
(L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser)
Work
(Luc Froment)
Will
(Louis Hérault)
The Devil in the City
(Marc Herner)
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
(Prince Algabert)
The Right to Life
(Jacques Alberty)
The Tragic Mill
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Edmond Dantès)
Passport 13.444
The Empire of Diamonds
(Arthur Graves)
L'Empereur des pauvres
(Marc Anavan)
The Red Inn
(Prosper Magnan)
Deadly Gas
Der Maler und sein Modell
Nemrod et compagnie
The mystery of the pink villa
(Langeac)
The Cradle of God
La zone de la mort
The Bridge That Failed
L'Ami Fritz
Être ou ne pas être
Blanchette
Yasmina
Rue de la Paix
(Ally - un millionnaire)
A Night of Romance
(Antonio Scapa)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Count Obligado
(Director)
In the Shadow of the Harem
(Writer)
La Mascotte
(Director)
Passport 13.444
(Director)
Sacred Woods
(Director)
La Route du bagne
(Director)
Chéri-Bibi
(Director)
Wolves Between Them
(Director)
The Rebel
(Director)
Immediate Call
(Director)
A Man to Kill
(Director)
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
(Director)
L'Ange du foyer
(Director)
Naked as a Worm
(Director)
Bouboule 1er, roi nègre
(Director)
L'instinct
(Director)
L'appassionata
(Director)
The shelter
(Director)
Bouboule's Gang
(Director)
Kiss Me
(Director)
Celle qui domine
(Director)
In the Shadow of the Harem
(Director)
Hangman's Noose
(Director)
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
(Director)
Cartacalha, reine des gitans
(Director)
Forte tête
(Director)
L'homme sans nom
(Director)
Alert Nights
(Director)
La dernière chevauchée
(Director)
Le dolmen tragique
(Director)
La Danseuse de Marrakech
(Director)
L'Homme aux mains d'argile
(Director)
My Childish Father
(Director)