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The Passenger (1928 Film)
''The Passenger'' (French: ''Le passager'') is a 1928 French silent film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Jean Mercanton, Charles Vanel and Michèle Verly.Holmstrom p.97 Cast * Jean Mercanton * Charles Vanel * Michèle Verly Michèle Verly (real name Michèle Armande Houillon) (19 July 1909 – 3 March 1952) was a French stage and film actress. She was managing director of the Théâtre Gramont from August 1945 until her untimely death. She died in the 1952 Air Fran ... * Walter Byron * Nicolas Redelsperger * Abel Sovet References Bibliography * John Holmstrom. ''The moving picture boy: an international encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Michael Russell, 1996. External links * 1928 films Films directed by Jacques de Baroncelli French silent films French black-and-white films 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florence, Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscany, Tuscan origin and part of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquis of Javon, Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal (dialect), Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. His older brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon, He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy. One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel ''La Femme et le pantin'' (1928) was filmed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Mercanton
Jean Mercanton (20 May 1920 – 4 November 1947) was a French film actor.Goble p.106 Mercanton began his career as a child actor, making his film debut in the year of his birth. Selected filmography * '' Miarka'' (1920) * '' The Two Boys'' (1924) * '' Cinders'' (1926) * ''The Maid at the Palace'' (1927) * '' Croquette'' (1927) * '' The Passenger'' (1928) * ''Venus'' (1929) * ''The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) * '' Princess, At Your Orders!'' (1931) * '' Narcotics'' (1932) * ''Monsieur Albert'' (1932) * ''He Is Charming'' (1932) * '' Captain Benoit'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * '' Three from St Cyr'' (1939) * ''The Phantom Carriage ''The Phantom Carriage'' ( sv, Körkarlen, literally "The Wagoner") is a 1921 Swedish silent film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, based on the 1912 novel '' Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'' (''Körkarlen'') by Swedish author Selma Lag ...'' (1939) * ''Destitute Mary'' (1945) * '' Distress'' (1946) * '' Son of France'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vanel
Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 76-year film career, which began in 1912, he appeared in more than 200 films and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Feyder, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's ''The Wages of Fear'' for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953. Biography Early life Charles-Marie Vanel was born in Rennes in Brittany. He came from a seafaring family and his parents were traders who moved to Paris when he was twelve years old. He was expelled from all the schools he attended. He tried to enlist in the navy, but was rejected due to his poor eyesight. In 1908, he began to perform in the theater, appearing in ''Hamlet''. His first film was the 1912 ''Jim Crow'' directed by Robert Péguy. He was mobilized for the First World War in July 1915, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |