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Tony Lekain, real name Tony Théodore Weill, (5 November 1888 – 26 December 1966) was a French
film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
, who was active during the 1920s and 1930s.


Selected filmography

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1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
: '' Le Fauteuil 47'' with
Gaston Ravel Gaston Ravel (1878–1958) was a French screenwriter and film director. He made over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. In 1929 he co-directed the historical film ''The Queen's Necklace''.Klossner p.77 Selected filmography * '' The Knot'' ...
* 1927: '' Le Bonheur du jour'' with Gaston Ravel *
1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
: '' Figaro'', with Gaston Ravel * 1929: ''
The Queen's Necklace ''The Queen's Necklace'' is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scan ...
'', with Gaston Ravel *
1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
: ''Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'', with Gaston Ravel *
1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
: ', with Gaston Ravel, after the novel by Florence L. Barclay. * 1934: ''
Fanatisme ''Fanatisme'' is a 1934 French historical drama film directed by Tony Lekain and Gaston Ravel and starring Pola Negri, Jean Yonnel and Lucien Rozenberg.Kotowski p.208 The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin. Cast * Pola N ...
'', with Gaston Revel


External links

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''Les Gens du cinéma''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lekain, Tony Film directors from Paris 1888 births 1966 deaths