Georges Alphonse Hatot (22 December 1876 – 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

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in 1898 as well as having made the first films to feature the Roman emperor

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. 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 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Filmography

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* {{Authority control 1876 births 1959 deaths Film directors from Paris French film directors French men