Georges Alphonse Hatot (22 December 1876 â 8 August 1959) was a theater manager and pioneering French filmmaker during the late 1890s and early twentieth century. He directed the first known film based on the story of
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daÊk} ; 1412 â 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of OrlĂ©ans and her insistence on the coronati ...
in 1898 as well as having made the first films to feature the Roman emperor
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 â 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...
. Besides being a director he also wrote the 1908
serial ''
Nick Carter, le roi des détectives
''Nick Carter, le roi des détectives'' (1908) is a French silent Serial film, serial film based on the popular American novels featuring master detective Nick Carter (literary character), Nick Carter. It was written by Georges Hatot and directed ...
'' which was a major success and spawned many detective series in the following years.
Biography
Georges Alphonse Hatot was born on December 22, 1876 in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 kmÂČ (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
.
Filmography
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1876 births
1959 deaths
Film directors from Paris
French film directors
French men