Léon Mathot
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Pour le plaisir
Self
1964
Film
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Abbé Gaillard
1939
Film
The Right to Life
Jacques Alberty
1917
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Will
Louis Hérault
1917
Film
Yasmina
1927
Vent debout
1923
Film
Work
Luc Froment
1920
Film
Barberousse
Trively
1917
Film
L'instinct
Jean Bernon
1930
Être ou ne pas être
1922
Film
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès
1918
Film
In the Shadow of the Harem
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
1928
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
Prince Algabert
1912
L'Empereur des pauvres
Marc Anavan
1922
Film
Deadly Gas
1916
Film
L'Ami Fritz
1920
Film
The mystery of the pink villa
Langeac
1930
Passport 13.444
1931
Film
The Empire of Diamonds
Arthur Graves
1920
Nemrod et compagnie
1916
Film
The Red Inn
Prosper Magnan
1923
Film
Rue de la Paix
Ally - un millionnaire
1927
Film
Jean d'Agrève
Jean d'Agrève
1922
Film
Cœur fidèle
Jean
1923
Film
The Bridge That Failed
1914
Film
The Devil in the City
Marc Herner
1925
The Wig Chase
1906
Film
The Tragic Mill
1916
A Night of Romance
Antonio Scapa
1925
Film
The Zone of Death
1917
Blanchette
1921
Film
The Cradle of God
1926
Film
Der Maler und sein Modell
1925
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
Joachim Goethal
1912
Film
The house of La Fleche
1930