Director

Marcel L'Herbier

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Directed movies: 37Directed series: 0All crew credits: 51

TMDB ID: 143353

IMDb ID: nm0478303

Known for: Directing

Born: April 23, 1888

Died: November 26, 1979

Age: 91

Place of birth: Paris, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1917 - 1975

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 6.94

Wikidata: Q127109

Also known as

Marcel Charles Adrien L'Herbier

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Biography

Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.