Léon Mathot
March 5, 1886 (138 years old) in Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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.
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- 1978 · Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
- 1939 · Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur as Abbé Gaillard
- 1931 · Passport 13.444 as
- 1930 · The house of La Fleche as
- 1930 · Instinct as
- 1930 · The mystery of the pink villa as Langeac
- 1928 · In the Shadow of the Harem as L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
- 1927 · Rue de la Paix as Ally - un millionnaire
- 1927 · Yasmina as
- 1926 · The Cradle of God as
- 1925 · A Night of Romance as Antonio Scapa
- 1925 · Der Maler und sein Modell as
- 1925 · The Devil in the City as Marc Herner
- 1923 · Cœur fidèle as Jean
- 1923 · The Red Inn as Prosper Magnan
- 1923 · Vent debout as
- 1922 · Être ou ne pas être as
- 1922 · L'Empereur des pauvres as Marc Anavan
- 1921 · Blanchette as
- 1920 · The Empire of Diamonds as Arthur Graves
- 1920 · L'Ami Fritz as
- 1920 · Work as Luc Froment
- 1918 · The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantès
- 1917 · La zone de la mort as
- 1917 · Barberousse as Trively
- 1917 · Will as Louis Hérault
- 1917 · The Right to Life as Jacques Alberty
- 1916 · Nemrod et compagnie as
- 1916 · The Tragic Mill as
- 1916 · Deadly Gas as
- 1914 · The Bridge That Failed as
- 1912 · Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel as Joachim Goethal
- 1912 · Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg as Prince Algabert
- 1906 · The Wig Chase as