Gaston Modot
Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors.
Gaston Modot
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- Born
- 31 December 1887
- Birthplace
- Paris, French Third Republic
- Died
- 20 February 1970
- Place of death
- Le Raincy, France
- Full name
- Gaston Victor Modot.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- actor and screenwriter.
- Languages
- French.
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• Born — 31 December 1887 • Birthplace — Paris, French Third Republic • Died — 20 February 1970 • Place of death — Le Raincy, France • Years Active — 1909–1962
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Gaston Modot, born on 30 December 1887 in Paris and died on 24 February 1970 in Paris, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Biography
Biography
Modot lived in Montmartre and was a painter at the beginning of the 20th century, where he met fellow artists Picasso and Modigliani. In 1909 he started his career with Gaumont and for the following 20 years he covered all silent film genres. In 1917 he was the main actor in Abel Gance's Mater dolorosa. He played in Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc's avant-garde films La fête espagnole (1919) and Fièvre (1921). With Max Linder, Modot played in Abel Gance's Au secours! (1924). Towards the end of the 1920s he performed in German-French co-productions. He is still famous for his role of The Man in Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or (1930). He had his first role in a sound film with René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930). He and Jean Gabin are main characters in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937). He acted in the Jean Renoir classics La grande illusion and La règle du jeu as well as the three-hour poetic film Les enfants du paradis (1945) for Marcel Carné. In 1962 Modot ended his acting career. He had acted in more than 100 films.
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Life and career
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1970
Gaston Modot died at Le Raincy.
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14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Le Raincy.
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Films
• Mater Dolorosa (1917) • La zone de la mort (1917) • La fête espagnole (1919) • Fièvre (1921) • Mathias Sandorf (1921) • The Mysteries of Paris (1922) • Au secours! (1924) • Heart of an Actress (1924) • Le Miracle des loups (1924) • Carmen (1926) • The Lady of Lebanon (1926) • The City of a Thousand Delights (1927) • Secrets of the Orient (1928) • Mademoiselle's Chauffeur (1928) • Change of Heart (1928) • Le navire des hommes perdus (1929) • The Green Monocle (1929) • Phantoms of Happiness (1929) • My Daughter's Tutor (1929) • The Ship of Lost Souls (1929) • Saint Joan the Maid (1929) • L'Âge d'Or (1930) • Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) • About an Inquest (1931) • Under the Leather Helmet (1932) • Fantômas (1932) • Colomba (1933) • Bastille Day (1933) • Crainquebille (1934) • Lucrezia Borgia (1935) • The Imberger Mystery (1935) • Bux the Clown (1935) • Pépé le Moko (1937) • The Forsaken (1937) • White Cargo (1937) • Grand Illusion (1937) • Street of Shadows (1937) • The Chess Player (1938) • Sirocco (1938) • The Time of the Cherries (1938) • Coral Reefs (1939) • The Rules of the Game (1939) • At Your Command, Madame (1942) • White Patrol (1942) • The Trump Card (1942) • Children of Paradise (1945) • Lessons in Conduct (1946) • Antoine et Antoinette (1947) • The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) • The Cavalier of Croix-Mort (1948) • Eternal Conflict (1948) • Daybreak (1949) • Passion for Life (1949) • La beauté du diable (1949) • The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949) • Monsieur Octave (1951) • Casque d'or (1952) • Meeting in Paris (1956) • Elena and Her Men (1956) • The Lovers (1958) • Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959) • Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1962)
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- 1.Acte de naissance (vue 5/31) avec mention marginale du décès. Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du 14e arrondissement, registre des naissances de 1888.
- 2.Notice sur LesGensducinema.com.
- 3.Conte cruel. Henri, salle en ligne de la Cinémathèque française.
- 4.film tourné en 4 parties (La Torpille Arvieux, Le Train 13 bis, Les Fauves, La Poudre 108)
- 5.film tourné en 4 parties
- 6.film tourné en deux parties
- 7.film tourné en 8 époques de 1914 à 1917 *# Edmond Dantès ( ) *# Le Trésor de Monte-Cristo ( ) *# Le Philanthrope ( ) *# Sindbab le marin ( ) *# La Conquête de Paris ( ) *# Les Trois Vengeances ( ) *# Les Derniers Exploits de Caderousse ( ) *# Châtiments ( )
- 8.film tourné en deux époques
- 9.G. Modot est également le scénariste
- 10.film tourné en 12 épisodes *# Le Tapis franc *# La Ferme de Bouqueval *# Les Justiciers *# Le Ménage Pipelet *# Les Suites d’un bal à l'ambassade *# Misère *# Le Martyre de Louise Morel *# L’Étude de maître Ferrand *# L’Île du ravageur *# Le Maître d'école et la Chouette *# Celle qui venge *# Son altesse Fleur de Paris
- 11.film tourné en 2 épisodes
- 12.une version sonorisée entièrement remaniée et remontée est sortie en 1930
- 13.Le film avait été commencé par Jacques Robert
- 14.moyen métrage de Gaston Modot
- 15.Conte cruel. kinematoscope.org.
- 16.G. Modot assure le commentaire du film
- 17.G. Modot est uniquement le coscénariste du film
- 18.G. Modot apparaît dans la première époque, Le Boulevard du crime, dans le rôle de l'aveugle Fil de soie
- 19.court métrage documentaire de . d'un réalisation non identifié
- 20.La Saison cinématographique. UFOLEIS. 30. 1948. 15118592.
- 21.G. Modot est uniquement coscénariste du film
- 22.Gaston Modot est le grand-père dans le sketch Un seul Dieu tu adoreras
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Les excentriques du cinéma français. H. Veyrier. 1983. 978-2-85199-304-5.
- Dictionnaire des comédiens français disparus. Y. Foucart. 2007. 978-2-9531139-0-7.
- Dictionnaire des acteurs du cinéma muet en France. Fallois. 2011. 978-2-87706-747-8.
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