Gérard Bourgeois
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| Born | August 18, 1874 |
| Died | December 15, 1944 |
Gérard Bourgeois (born August 18, 1874, 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
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 René Mathey
, Les Films MB (Bourgeois-Mathey).
Bourgeois made 142 films between 1908 and 1925. He directed many of the popular
Napoléon
(1921), "Faust" (1922) and "L'Homme sans nerfs" (1924).
He moved to Neuilly before 1914. At the beginning of World War I, he joined as a foreign volunteer with his son in the French army. He evacuated eight days after arriving at the front because of illness.
He is credited with several publishings on filmmaking he made with Pathé Freres in 1911.[1]
Selected filmography
- La Fille du Braconnier (1908)[2]
- Hamlet (1910)
- Nick Winter et le vol de la Joconde (1911)
- L'Aventurier (1915)
- Christophe Colomb (1916)
- Un drame sous Napoléon (1921)
- Faust (1922)
- L'Homme sans nerfs (1924)
- Terror (1924)
- Swifter Than Death (1925)
- In the Face of Death (1925)[3]
References
- OCLC 691672525– via Open WorldCat.
- ISBN 9780810869394– via Google Books.
- ^ "BOURGEOIS Gerard". www.cinema-francais.fr.
External links
- Gérard Bourgeois at IMDb
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