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