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Jaque Catelain

Schauspieler / Filmregisseur / Regisseur | * 09.02.1897 († 68, 05.03.1965) | Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines (Frankreich)
Jaque Catelain (9 February 1897 – 5 March 1965) was a French actor who came to prominence in silent films of the 1920s, and who continued acting in films and on stage until the 1950s. He also wrote and directed two silent films himself, and he was a capable artist and musician. He had a close association with the director Marcel L'Herbier. (He was born as Jacques Guérin-Castelain; other variations of his name used at different times were Jaque-Catelain, Jacques Catelain, Jacques Catelin, and Jacque Cathelain.) ()

Jaque Catelain was a French actor who came to prominence in silent films of the 1920s, and who continued acting in films and on stage until the 1950s. He also wrote and directed two silent films himself and was a capable artist and musician. He had a close association with the director Marcel L'Herbier. He was born as Jacques Guérin-Castelain in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. His father was then the mayor and also moved in literary and theatrical circles, which allowed the young Jacques to encounter many famous names in his childhood. He showed early enthusiasm for the arts and music, and at the age of 16 he entered the Académie Julian in Paris to study fine arts. With the outbreak of war in the following year, he changed direction and chose to study acting at the Conservatoire, enrolling in the class of Paul Mounet, before being mobilised into the artillery.In 1914 Catelain met Marcel L'Herbier, then a writer and critic, who became a major influence on his life and career, and with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. When L'Herbier began directing films in 1917, Catelain became his leading man of choice and starred in twelve of his silent films, starting with Le Torrent, and they made Catelain into a leading star who was in demand to appear in foreign films as well as in productions of other French directors. In 1925 he was offered a seven-year contract by MGM to work in America, but he turned this down.Jaque Catelain's activities in this period extended beyond acting. When Marcel L'Herbier set up his own production company Cinégraphic in 1922, its first project became Le marchand de plaisirs which Catelain directed as well as acting a double role in it. In the following year he wrote and directed La Galerie des monstres (1923/24). Both films were successful enough to cover their costs. He devised controversial make-up for some of the actors in L'Inhumaine, and his artistic skills were put to further use in two set designs for L'Argent. As a pianist he would sometimes step in to provide improvised accompaniment for previews of L'Herbier's films.Catelain successfully made the transition from silent to sound films, starring in L'Herbier's L'Enfant de l'amour (1929), but during the 1930s he took fewer leading film roles and started to act in the theatre. In February 1933 he married Suzanne Vial, a friend since childhood who had become a production assistant to L'Herbier in the 1920s and continued working with him until 1944. Soon afterwards in 1933/1934 he was employed by the daily newspaper Le Journal to go to Hollywood to carry out a series of interviews with leading personalities such as Chaplin, Stroheim and Sternberg.In May 1940, Catelain left France for a four-month theatrical tour of South America, but within a month France was occupied by the Germans and his absence lasted for six years. In Buenos Aires he became so ill with pneumonia that he was given the last rites, but he recovered and went to Canada for the next three years for work in the theatre and propaganda broadcasts. In 1943 he was invited to Hollywood and remained there for a further three years. He returned to Paris in 1946, and resumed an occasional career in films, appearing in minor roles in three of Jean Renoir's films in the 1950s. In 1950, he published a biography and appreciation of the work of Marcel L'Herbier.Catelain died in Paris in 1965.

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Häufigste Genres für diese Person: Dramen | Komödien | Romantik / Liebe

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Filme mit Jaque Catelain als Schauspieler(39)

als Le ministre (uncredited)1955 French Cancan
als Mr. Zoïca1950 Love and Companionship
als Christian Darbel1948 Stolen Affections
als Le directeur de Radio Azur (uncredited)1940 Comedy of Happiness
als Le prince consort1939 Cordial Agreement
als Alain1938 Escadrille of Chance
als Capitaine Langlade1938 La Marseillaise
als Georges Blanchet1936 The Tomboy
als Dan1935 The Imperial Road
als Geoffroy de Chabré1934 Le Bonheur
als Prince Mirano1933 Dream Castle
als Félicien1931 The Dream
als Maurice Orland1930 Illegitimate Child
als Vassia1929 Princely nights
als Arnaud de Saint-Guil1928 The West
als Delphin Leherg - le fils de Leherg qu'aime Ludivine1927 Little Devil May Care
als Marquis1927 Love's Springtime
als Henri de Cassel - le sosie de Dimitrieff, abattu par Svirsky1926 Le Vertige
als Octavian1925 Der Rosenkavalier
als Einar Norsen1924 Die Unmenschliche
als Riquet's1924 The Gallery of Monsters
als Professeur Raoul Vignerte1923 Kœnigsmark
als Gosta / Donald1923 Le marchand de plaisirs
als Don Juan de Manara1922 Don Juan et Faust
als Toudieu1921 Prometheus, Banker
als Hedwick1921 El Dorado
als Juan Tristan1920 Le Carnaval des vérités
als Michel1920 The Man of the Sea
als Laurs1919 Rose-France

Filme mit Jaque Catelain als Crew-Mitglied(4)

Directing/Director1924 The Gallery of Monsters
Directing/Director1923 Le marchand de plaisirs
Editing/Editor1920 The Man of the Sea
Art/Production Design1919 Rose-France

Staatsbürgerschaft: Frankreich
Geburtsdatum: Dienstag, 09.02. 1897 (Februar) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines (Frankreich)
Todesdatum: Freitag, 05.03. 1965 (März) in Paris (im Alter von: 68)
Sternzeichen: Wassermann (Chinesisches Sternzeichen: Hahn)
Sprachen: Französisch (FR, Muttersprache)
Jaque Catelain arbeitet häufig zusammen mit diesen Personen:
Marcel L'Herbier (43x, Crew)
Marcelle Pradot (9x, Schauspielerin)
Philippe Hériat (8x, Schauspieler)
Jean Renoir (6x, Crew)
Claire Prélia (6x, Schauspielerin)
Georges Lucas (6x, Crew)
Ève Francis (5x, Schauspielerin)
Georges Specht (5x, Crew)
Michel Duran (4x, Crew)
Jacques Henley (4x, Schauspieler)
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