Armand Tallier (6 August 1887 – 1 March 1958) was a French stage and

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of the

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.Goble p.56 In 1925 he established a small cinema in

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, the

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, to secure screenings of

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films that would struggle to get a mainstream release.

Selected filmography

* '' Blanchette'' (1912) * ''

The Torture of Silence ''The Torture of Silence'' (french: Mater dolorosa) is a 1917 French silent drama film directed by Abel Gance. Cast * Emmy Lynn as Manon Berliac * Firmin Gémier as Emile Berliac * Armand Tallier as François Rolland * Anthony Gildès as Je ...

'' (1917) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' Simone'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1921)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Hagener, Malte. ''Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939''. Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

External links

* 1887 births 1958 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors French male stage actors French theatre directors Male actors from Marseille {{France-actor-stub