
Acting
Born September 6, 1864 · Paris, France
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue, but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Untamed Youth
1924

Daytime Wives
1923

Forsaking All Others
1922

Youth to Youth
1922

The Glory of Clementina
1922

Living Lies
1922

The Black Panther's Cub
1921

Whispering Shadows
1921

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1919

Eyes of the Soul
1919

The Marriage Price
1919

Paid in Full
1919

His Parisian Wife
1919

Out of the Shadow
1919

Under the Greenwood Tree
1918

A Daughter of the Old South
1918

The Ordeal of Rosetta
1918

The House of Glass
1918

The Marionettes
1918

The Eternal Temptress
1917

Magda
1917

Under False Colors
1917

The Fires of Youth
1917

Forget-Me-Not
1917

The Family Honor
1917

The Web of Desire
1917

A Hungry Heart
1917

The Man Who Forgot
1917

All Man
1916

The Heart of a Hero
1916

Friday the 13th
1916

Sudden Riches
1916

Love's Crucible
1916

The Little Dutch Girl
1915

The Boss
1915
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915

A Cashier's Novel
1914
The Horrors of War
1914
Chicot the Jester
1913
La duchesse des Folies-Bergères
1913
The Eaglet
1913
Le chiffonnier de Paris
1913
The Spoiled Sparrows
1913
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1913

The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
1912
La fleur des neiges
1911

Hearts and Eyes
1911
Dog and Wolf
1911
Eugénie Grandet
1910

Wonder Bar
1934

Man of Two Worlds
1934

Design for Living
1933

The Solitaire Man
1933

The Devil's in Love
1933

The Three Musketeers
1933

The California Trail
1933

The bluffer
1932

Blonde Venus
1932

The Man from Yesterday
1932
The son of the other
1932

Shanghai Express
1932

Cock of the Air
1932

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1931

The Yellow Ticket
1931

The Road to Reno
1931

The Common Law
1931

The Big House
1931

The Big Trail
1931

The Little Cafe
1931
Échec au roi
1930

Counter-investigation
1930

Morocco
1930

Just Like Heaven
1930

Mysterious Mr. Parkes
1930

A Man from Wyoming
1930

Estrellados
1930
Sweeping Against the Winds
1930

The Green Specter
1930

Tiger Rose
1929

Times Square
1929