Marcel L'Herbier

Directing·Apr 23, 1888·Paris, France

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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.

Film	Credit
La Féerie des fantasmes1975 · Director	Director
What the East Wind Saw1954 · Director	Director
The Father of the Girl1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Last Days of Pompeii1950 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Stolen Affections1948 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Queen's Necklace1946 · Director	Director
Happy Go Lucky1946 · Director	Director
The Bohemian Life1945 · Director	Director
The Honorable Catherine1943 · Director	Director
Fantastic Night1942 · Director	Director
Foolish Husbands1941 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Comedy of Happiness1940 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
La Mode rêvée1940 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Savage Brigade1939 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cordial Agreement1939 · Director	Director
Land of Fire1939 · Director	Director
Adrienne Lecouvreur1938 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Rasputin1938 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Forfaiture1937 · Director	Director
The Citadel of Silence1937 · Director	Director
NNights of Fire1937 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Great Temptation1936 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
CChildren's Corner1936 · Director	Director
The New Men1936 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Imperial Road1935 · Director	Director
Sacrifice of Honor1935 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Adventurer1934 · Director	Director
Le Bonheur1934 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Scandal1934 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Hawk1933 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Scent of the Woman in Black1931 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Zuiderzeewerken1930 · Producer	Producer
The Mystery of the Yellow Room1930 · Director	Director
La Femme d'une nuit1930 · Director	Director
Illegitimate Child1930 · Director	Director
Princely Nights1929 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Autour de l'argent1929 · Himself	Himself
L'Argent1928 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Little Devil May Care1928 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Le Vertige1926 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Late Mathias Pascal1925 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Inhuman Woman1924 · Director	Director
The Gallery of Monsters1924 · Producer	Producer
The Flood1924 · Producer	Producer
News Item1923 · Producer	Producer
Le marchand de plaisirs1923 · Producer	Producer
RRésurrection1923 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Don Juan et Faust1922 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay