Edmond Van Daële
Edmond Van Daële (11 August 1884, in Paris – 11 March 1960, in Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France) was a Dutch-French film actor. Edmond Van Daële was born as Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz, he appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in nearly 50 films including Abel Gance's Napoleon between 1915 and 1950.
Also recorded as Edmond Van Däele
Edmond Van Daële

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- Name
- Edmond Van Daële
- Birth Name
- Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz
- Born
- 11 August 1884
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 11 March 1960
- Place of death
- Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Edmond Van Daële (11 August 1884, in Paris – 11 March 1960, in Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France) was a Dutch-French film actor. Edmond Van Daële was born as Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz, he appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in nearly 50 films including Abel Gance's Napoleon between 1915 and 1950.
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• Name — Edmond Van Daële • Birth Name — Edmond Jean Adolphe Minckwitz • Born — 11 August 1884 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 11 March 1960 • Place of death — Grez-Neuville, Maine-et-Loire, France • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1915–1960
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Selected filmography
• Six and One Half Times Eleven (1927) • Sables (1927) • Napoléon (1927) • Madame Récamier (1928) • Cagliostro (1929) • The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930) • The Shark (1930) • The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1931) • Dance Hall (1931) • The Three Musketeers (1932) • The Tunnel (1933) • Maria Chapdelaine (1934) • Moscow Nights (1934) • The Phantom Gondola (1936) • The Emigrant (1940) • Goodbye Leonard (1943) • Sending of Flowers (1950)
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9th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.L'acteur a pris le nom de famille de sa mère comme pseudonyme.
- 2.Acte de naissance (vue 30/31) avec mention marginale du décès. Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du arrondissement, registre des naissances de 1884.
- 3.Grez-Neuville. Un jeu de piste sur le patrimoine avec le club de basket
- 4.Peut-être y eut-il un remake en 1921
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