Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 3/5/1886
- Birthplace
- Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Died
- 3/6/1968 (aged 82)
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- Léon Désiré Joseph Mathot
Biography
Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.
12 titles
Cœur fidèle
1923
Jean
The Red Inn
1923
Prosper Magnan
The Devil in the City
1925
Marc Herner
Vent debout
1923
Passport 13.444
1931
In the Shadow of the Harem
1928
L'Émir Si Abd El Nasser
The Tragic Mill
1916
Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel
1912
Joachim Goethal
Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg
1912
Prince Algabert
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978TV
Self (archive footage)
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939
Abbé Gaillard
The house of La Fleche
1930
