Edmond van Daële
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 11, 1884
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Known For
Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Behold the Man
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
Cœur fidèle
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Six and a Half by Eleven
A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old life and goes back on the stage - an act which leads her lover to commit suicide. Later the doctor and Marie also meet, and she becomes his mistress. He finds out about his brother's suicide and goes through his artifacts looking for a clue as to what might have been the cause. He finds a photograph of Marie and realizes the truth, which decimates their relationship.
Children of Montmartre
When her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving attention, and soon she's their favorite. An especially needy child is Marie, a prostitute's daughter. Rose and she bond, and Marie is jealous of all attentions paid Rose, especially those of Dr. Libois, the school's physician. When Rose inadvertently guides the children through the educational experiment of a visiting scholar, and then discloses she has a college degree and is working beneath her station, the principal wants to fire her. Is there any way she can stay? And what will happen to Marie?
The Emigrant
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Princesse Mandane
Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.
Revelation
A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.
Filmography
as Robespierre (archive footage)
as Verger
as Engraver
as Emigrant
as Doctor Erich Krauss
as Robespierre
as Gerson
as Le Docteur
as Le contremaître
as Pantin
as Robert Darzac
as Benito
as Robert Darzac
as Radio operator
as Louis XVI
as Joseph Fouché
as Jérome de Ners
as Jean-Louis Verdier dit Sirias
as Maximilien Robespierre
as Broc
as Little Paul
as Maître Frasne - un notaire
as Militus
as Jacques Hébert