
Gérard Bourgeois (born August 18, 1874, in Geneva, Switzerland (from French parents), and died December 15, 1944, in Paris, France) was a leading French film director during the silent era. After ten years in the theater, Gérard Bourgeois became artistic director of Lux-films. In 1911, he joined the company Pathé. He first filmed historical films (Cadoudal), then realistic films including the landmark 1911 film "Victimes de l'alcoolisme" (US: In The Grip of Alcohol), proclaimed by Moving Picture World as "The greatest moral dilemma ever made by any film manufacturer" In the Grip of Alcohol ), before founding his own production company with , Les Films MB (Bourgeois-Mathey). Bourgeois made 142 films between 1908 and 1925. He directed many of the popular Nick Winter comedy mysteries starring in the early 1910s including 1911's "Nick Winter et le vol de la Joconde" about an attempt theft of...
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