Émile Chautard
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue, but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Acted in
Wonder Bar
1934
as Pierre (uncredited)
Man of Two Worlds
1934
as Natkusiak
Design for Living
1933
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Solitaire Man
1933
as French Hotel Clerk
The Devil's in Love
1933
as Father Carmion
The Three Musketeers
1933
as Gen. Pelletier
The California Trail
1933
as Don Marco Ramirez
The bluffer
1932
as Oscar Brown
Blonde Venus
1932
as Chautard, Cabaret Manager in France (uncredited)
The Man from Yesterday
1932
as Priest
The son of the other
1932
Shanghai Express
1932
as Major Lenard
Cock of the Air
1932
as French Ambassador
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931
The Yellow Ticket
1931
as Headwaiter
The Road to Reno
1931
as Andre
The Common Law
1931
as Doorman (uncredited)
The Big House
1931
as Pop
The Big Trail
1931
as Padre
The Little Cafe
1931
as Philibert
Échec au roi
1930
as King Eric VIII
Counter-investigation
1930
as O'Brien
Morocco
1930
as French General (uncredited)
Just Like Heaven
1930
as Dulac
A Man from Wyoming
1930
as French Mayor
Estrellados
1930
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930
The Green Specter
1930
as Abdoul
Tiger Rose
1929
as Frenchman
Times Square
1929
Marianne
1929
as Père Joseph
House of Horror
1929
as Old Miser
Adoration
1928
as Murajev
Lilac Time
1928
as The Mayor
Caught in the Fog
1928
as The Old Man
Out of the Ruins
1928
as Père Gilbert
His Tiger Lady
1928
as Stage Manager
The Noose
1928
as Priest
The Love Mart
1927
as Louis Frobelle
Now We're in the Air
1927
as Monsieur Chelaine
7th Heaven
1927
as Father Chevillon
Whispering Sage
1927
as José Arastrade
Upstream
1927
as Campbell-Mandare
Blonde or Brunette
1927
as Father-in-Law
The Flaming Forest
1926
as André Audemard
My Official Wife
1926
as Count Orloff, Hélène's Father
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926
as Anatol
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926
as Director
Paris at Midnight
1926
as Père Goriot