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
*
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
*
''Les Gens du cinéma''
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Film directors from Paris
1888 births
1966 deaths