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Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (/ m eɪ ˈ l j ɛ s /; [1] French:; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director.He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Thanks to the efforts of film history devotées, especially René Clair, Jean George Auriol, and Paul Gilson, Méliès and his work were rediscovered in the late 1920s, and he was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1931. [11] In the list below, Méliès's films are numbered according to their order in the catalogues of the Star Film Company.
The House of the Devil (French: Le Manoir du diable, lit. 'The Devil's Manor'), [2] released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in the United Kingdom as The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. [1]
Georges Méliès. Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895.
Gaston stopped the tour in 1913 and settled in Corsica, where he died two years later. Gaston's son Paul sold what was left of the company to General Film Company in 1917. It was believed that bad blood developed between the Méliès brothers, but recent research indicates that despite losses in the American branch, Georges received all ...
1925; died 1938) Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956), known by her stage name Jeanne d'Alcy or Jehanne d'Alcy , was a French film actress. She is best known as being the mistress and eventual wife of French cinema pioneer, filmmaker and inventor Georges Méliès .
The following annotated list collects the Méliès films identified by scholars as reconstructed actualities. The list includes the numbers assigned to them in the catalogues of Méliès's studio, the Star Film Company; the original French and English titles; the date of release; and whether the film survives or is presumed lost.
The Diabolical Tenant (aka The Diabolical Lodger), directed by George Melies (French) [7] ... actor (died 1992) January 3 – Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)