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Marcel L'Herbier
🎂 Apr 23, 1888 — 🕯️ Nov 26, 1979 (91 years)
Paris, France 0.5 popularity
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.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1950
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925
Le Bonheur
1934
El Dorado
1921
The Inhuman Woman
1924
Comedy of Happiness
1940
Forfaiture
1937
Scent of the Woman in Black
1931
Cordial Agreement
1939
The New Men
1936
Happy Go Lucky
1946
Fantastic Night
1942
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930
The Adventurer
1934
L'Argent
1928
The Man of the Sea
1920
Rasputin
1938
Little Devil May Care
1928
What the East Wind Saw
1954
Prometheus, Banker
1921
Le Vertige
1926
Rose-France
1919
Le Bercail
1919
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Marcel L'Herbier
1888-04-23 · Paris, France
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.