René Guissart (director)
| René Guissart | |
|---|---|
_-_2.jpg) Director Marion Fairfax and René Guissart are on the platform for The Lying Truth (1922) | |
| Born |
24 October 1888 Paris France |
| Died |
19 May 1960 (aged 71) Monaco |
| Occupation |
Cinematographer Film director |
| Years active | 1916–1939 |
René Guissart (24 October 1888 – 19 May 1960) was a French film director and cinematographer. During the 1920s and 1930s he worked as cinematographer on a large number of British films many of them for British International Pictures. He also worked on MGM's 1925 epic Ben-Hur. From 1931 Guissart began directing and had made twenty eight films by 1939.
Selected filmography
Cinematographer
- Ambition (1916)
- Love and Hate (1916)
- Little Women (1918)
- Victory (1919)
- The White Heather (1919)
- Treasure Island (1920)
- My Lady's Garter (1920)
- The Yellow Typhoon (1920)
- Flames of Passion (1922)
- The Bohemian Girl (1922)
- Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)
- Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
- While Paris Sleeps (1923)
- Southern Love (1924)
- The Recoil (1924)
- Ben-Hur (1925)
- Madame Sans-Gene (1925)
- Land of Hope and Glory (1927)
- A Little Bit of Fluff (1928)
- The White Sheik (1928)
- Tommy Atkins (1928)
- Adam's Apple (1928)
- Paradise (1928)
- Daughter of the Regiment (1929)
- The American Prisoner (1929)
- The Hate Ship (1929)
- The Compulsory Husband (1930)
- Raise the Roof (1930)
- The W Plan (1930)
- Tropical Nights (1931)
- Every Woman Has Something (1931)
Director
- The Man in Evening Clothes (1931)
- The Improvised Son (1932)
- You Will Be a Duchess (1932)
- Dédé (1935)
- Speak to Me of Love (1935)
- Dora Nelson (1935)
- Sweet Devil (1938)
- Bourrachon (1938)
- Ménilmontant (1939)
Bibliography
- Phillips, Alastair. City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmaker in Paris 1929-1939. Amsterdam University Press, 2004.
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