Nathalie Lissenko
Acting
Biography
Natalia Andriivna Lysenko was a Ukrainian and French actress who was active during the silent era. She was the niece of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.
Born: August 18, 1884
Place of Birth: Nikolaev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]
Known For
Satan Triumphant
Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
The Lion of the Moguls
In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna's lover... Written by Guy Bellinger
The Burning Crucible
A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himself by imagining rivals. One morning she awakens from a nightmare in which she has been pursued by a man in various guises, who turns out to be the famous Detective Z, whose memoirs she has been reading. When she and her husband quarrel over leaving Paris permanently for a country estate, he goes to the "Trouve Tout" Agency and hires, of all people, Detective Z, to win back her affection.
The Fatted Calf
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.
Sea Fever
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.
Kean
By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.
The Poster
A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits of her daughter all around town.
Knight's Spirit
A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.
A Narrow Escape
The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
Double Love
Jacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his lover, Laure Maresco. When he steals four hundred thousand francs and loses that at the gambling tables, he flees to the United States, and Nathalie takes the blame. Twenty years later, she has a flourishing career as a nightclub singer, but their son is just as inept a gambler as his father had been.
Filmography
as Film footage
as Female companion
as Vera Petrovna
as Johanne Kruis
as Frau Tatarinoff
as Laure Maresco
as Marie
as Anna
as Jaqueline del Sorio
as La comtesse Elena de Koefeld
as Elle
as Yvonne Dumont
as Yvonne Lelys
as The queen of Sylistria
as Widow of the merchant Makovkin
as Iza, Leo's fiancée
as Klara Klarson
as Esfir, pastor's sister
as Natalya Lisenko
as Betty Clay, artist from cafe chantant
as Actress
as Elena Lavrova, wife
as Glasha, Osorgin's lover
as Countess Valishevskaya
as Yevgenia, Bessudniy's wife
as Irina
as Nadezhda
as Bertha