
Marcel L'Herbier
Biography
Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) 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).
In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
Acting (2 movies)
Directing (49 movies)

What the East Wind Saw
1954

Forfaiture
1937

The Honorable Catherine
1943

The Late Mathias Pascal
1925

Fantastic Night
1942

L'Argent
1928

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930

Scent of the Woman in Black
1931

The Inhuman Woman
1924

El Dorado
1921

Comedy of Happiness
1940

The Man of the Sea
1920

Little Devil May Care
1928

Le Vertige
1926

Prometheus, Banker
1921
Children's Corner
1936

Foolish Husbands
1941

Le Bonheur
1934

The Great Temptation
1936

Rose-France
1919

Le Bercail
1919

Le Carnaval des vérités
1920

Don Juan et Faust
1922

Princely Nights
1929

Sacrifice of Honor
1935

Illegitimate Child
1930

Land of Fire
1939

The New Men
1936

Savage Brigade
1939

The Imperial Road
1935

Rasputin
1938

The Adventurer
1934

La Mode rêvée
1940
Résurrection
1923

La Féerie des fantasmes
1975

The Bohemian Life
1945
Nights of Fire
1937

Cordial Agreement
1939

The Last Days of Pompeii
1950

The Father of the Girl
1953

Queen's Necklace
1946

La Femme d'une nuit
1930

Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938

Happy Go Lucky
1946

The Citadel of Silence
1937

Le Scandale
1934

The Hawk
1933

Stolen Affections
1948
Villa Destin
1921

