Maurice Lehmann (1895–1974) was a French actor, director and producer of the stage and screen. He starred in the 1923 film ''
Koenigsmark'' in which he played the title role. In
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
he was appointed President of the Jury in the
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
.
Biography
He entered as a boarder at the Comedie-French from 1916 to 1919. He then managed theaters in the Porte Saint-Martin, the Ambigu, the Renaissance,
Mogador
Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ha ...
, Edward VII and the Empire.
Selected filmography
* ''
Koenigsmark'' (1923)
* ''
Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named after ...
'' (1935)
* ''
The Lady of the Camellias
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'' (1953)
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1895 births
1974 deaths
French film directors
French film producers
French male stage actors
French male film actors
French male silent film actors
Male actors from Paris
20th-century French male actors
Directors of the Paris Opera
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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