Émile Chautard

Émile Chautard 7 September 1864 24 April 1934 was a FrenchAmerican 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 OdéonThéâtre de lEurope 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 Frenchspeaking 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 shortlived production company Choosing Hollywood over a return to France Chautard went to work for Famous PlayersLasky and other studios He received some highprofile assignments for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywoods 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