
Émile Chautard
Biography
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.
Acting (46 movies)

Shanghai Express
1932

Estrellados
1930

The bluffer
1932

The Green Specter
1930

Whispering Sage
1927

The California Trail
1933

Blonde or Brunette
1927

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931

Wonder Bar
1934

Just Like Heaven
1930

The Three Musketeers
1933

The Devil's in Love
1933

The Common Law
1931

A Man from Wyoming
1930

Cock of the Air
1932

Tiger Rose
1929

The Little Cafe
1931

The Big Trail
1931

Paris at Midnight
1926

The Solitaire Man
1933

Upstream
1927

Lilac Time
1928

The Yellow Ticket
1931

The Noose
1928

Design for Living
1933

Marianne
1929

Morocco
1930

7th Heaven
1927

Man of Two Worlds
1934

The Man from Yesterday
1932

Now We're in the Air
1927

The Road to Reno
1931

Caught in the Fog
1928

Adoration
1928

House of Horror
1929

The Big House
1931

His Tiger Lady
1928

The Love Mart
1927

My Official Wife
1926

Out of the Ruins
1928

Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926

The Flaming Forest
1926

Times Square
1929

Bardelys the Magnificent
1926

Counter-investigation
1930

Blonde Venus
1932
Directing (39 movies)

Love's Crucible
1916

The Heart of a Hero
1916

Under the Greenwood Tree
1918

His Parisian Wife
1919

The Marriage Price
1919

Eyes of the Soul
1919

The Eternal Temptress
1917

The Web of Desire
1917

Out of the Shadow
1919

Under False Colors
1917
Chicot the Jester
1913
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913

The Family Honor
1917

Forget-Me-Not
1917

The Boss
1915

Hearts and Eyes
1911

The Fires of Youth
1917

Whispering Shadows
1921
The Spoiled Sparrows
1913
Dog and Wolf
1911
The Horrors of War
1914
The Eaglet
1913

Daytime Wives
1923

The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1912

A Cashier's Novel
1914
Eugénie Grandet
1910

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1919

Magda
1917

Paid in Full
1919

Forsaking All Others
1922
Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913

All Man
1916

Sudden Riches
1916

The Little Dutch Girl
1915
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915
La fleur des neiges
1911
La duchesse des Folies-Bergères
1913

Living Lies
1922

A Daughter of the Old South
1918
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Hearts and Eyes | 1911 | Writer |
| La fleur des neiges | 1911 | Screenplay |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | 1919 | Screenplay |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | 1919 | Producer |