Léon Mathot
Acting
Biography
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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Cœur fidèle
1923
Jean
The Red Inn
1923
Prosper Magnan
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
1912
Joachim Goethal
The Devil in the City
1925
Marc Herner
Barberousse
1917
Trively
Vent debout
1923
In the Shadow of the Harem
1928
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
The Tragic Mill
1916
The Count of Monte Cristo
1918
Edmond Dantès
Deadly Gas
1916
L'instinct
1930
Jean Bernon
The house of La Fleche
1930
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939
Abbé Gaillard
Work
1920
Luc Froment
The Right to Life
1917
Jacques Alberty
The Empire of Diamonds
1920
Arthur Graves
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925
The mystery of the pink villa
1930
Langeac
The Cradle of God
1926
The Zone of Death
1917