Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Louis Feuillade: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born February 19, 1873 • France
Died February 25, 1925 or February 26, 1925 • Paris • France
Notable Works “La Nouvelle Mission de Judex” • “Les Vampires” • “Master of Terror”
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac
French filmmaker
René Clair
René Clair
French director
default image
Musidora
French actress and director
default image
Robert Wiene
German film director
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
British actor, producer, writer, and director
D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith
American director
default image
Robert Z. Leonard
American director
Tod Browning, wearing a pinstripe suit and bow tie, stands in profile examining a strip of film held above his head in a black-and-white portrait.
Tod Browning
American director
The “Great Stone Face”
Buster Keaton
American actor
Black-and-white scene from The Great Train Robbery (1903) showing two men in hats holding up a train worker beside a stopped locomotive on a railroad track.
Edwin S. Porter
American director
Father of Indian cinema
Dadasaheb Phalke
Indian director
default image
Stuart Heisler
American director and editor
default image
James Cruze
American director
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
American actress
Son of Frankenstein
Rowland V. Lee
American director
Silent film comedy star Fatty Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
American comedian and director
Kortner, Fritz
Fritz Kortner
Austrian actor and director
Sjostrom in “Wild Strawberries,” 1957
Victor Sjöström
Swedish actor and director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
French Swiss film director
Alejandro Jodorowsky, with white hair and beard, wearing a dark sweater, smiles in front of a blue and red background at an event in 2017.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
French filmmaker