Person Detail
Marcel L'Herbier
Catalogued films 40Director 40
Marcel L'Herbier (French: [lɛʁbje]; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 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).
Filmography
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What the East Wind Saw
The Father of the Girl
The Last Days of Pompeii
Stolen Affections
Queen's Necklace
Happy Go Lucky
The Bohemian Life
The Honorable Catherine
Fantastic Night
Foolish Husbands
Comedy of Happiness
Ecco la felicità
Cordial Agreement
Land of Fire
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Rasputin
Forfaiture
The Citadel of Silence
Nights of Fire
The Great Temptation
The New Men
The Imperial Road
Sacrifice d'honneur
The Adventurer
The Scandal
Le bonheur
The Hawk
Le parfum de la dame en noir
Illegitimate Child
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
L'Argent
The Devil in the Heart
Le Vertige
L'inhumaine
Don Juan et Faust
Eldorado
Le carnaval des vérités
Man of the Sea
Rose-France
Le bercail