Fantômas
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while el...
Acting
Renée Carl (10 June 1875 – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France, and died in Paris, France.
Between 1907 and 1937, she appeared in 186 films. A favorite of film director Louis Feuillade, she appeared in, at least, 150 films directed by him including the short Bébé and Bout de Zan comedies. Of the many characters she played in Feuillade's films, perhaps her most famous portrayal was that of Lady Beltham, mistress of the notorious Fantômas in the serial of the same name. She makes an uncredited appearance, as "L'Andalouse," in The Vampires.
In 1922, she directed and starred in the film A Shout from the Abyss, also known as Un cri dans l'abîme. In a 1924 interview for Mon Ciné magazine, she stated that she was introduced to film-making through her friend Léonie Richard.
Selected filmography
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A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while el...
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows polic...
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revol...
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of dar...
A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. Th...
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks...
The atmosphere in the living-room of Bébé's parents living-room is peaceful. Bébé is reading a children's book...
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over...
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman nam...
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of an...
At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the...
One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic am...
This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowb...
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Min...
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Min...
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric...
The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.
Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the...
Once Madame Ducordon discovers the joys of a new fashionable dance, she starts performing it wherever she happe...
A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by g...
Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the...
Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl mu...
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to anot...
Directed by Louis Feuillade (atributed) or by Etienne Arnaud (atributed), according to the Gaumont archives.