Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Manuella (co-director with René Hervil; also
co-screenwriter)
Oh! Ce Baiser / USA: Oh, That Kiss! (co-director
with René Hervil)
Midinettes (co-director with René Hervil)
La P’tite du Sixième (co-director with René
Hervil)
Le Tablier blanc (co-director with René Hervil;
also co-screenwriter)
Le Torrent (co-director with René Hervil)
1918 Bouclette / L’Ange de Minuit (co-director with
René Hervil)
Un Roman d’Amour et d’Aventures (co-director
with René Hervil)
1920 L’Appel du Sang / USA: The Call of the Blood
(also screenwriter, adapter, producer)
Miarka, la Fille à l’Ourse / USA: Gypsy Passion
/ Miarka, the Girl with the She-Bear (also producer)
1922 Phroso / UK: Possession (also producer)
1923 Sarati le Terrible
Aux Jardins de Murcie (co-director with René
Hervil; also producer)
1924 La Voyante
Les Deux Gosses (eight episodes: “Premier
Mensonge,” “Zéphyrine, la Limace et Cie,”
“Infernale Vengeance,” “Fanfan et Claudinet,”
“Le Retour de Kerlor,” “La Fuite de Fanfan,”
“Maman chérie,” “La Mort d’un Gosse”; also
screenwriter, adapter)
1925 Monte-Carlo / USA: Prodigals of Monte Carlo
1926 La Petite Bonne du Palace / Cinders (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, producer)
1928 Croquette ou Une Histoire de Cirque / La Môme
du Cirque / UK: Monkeynuts (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, producer)
1929 Vénus (also producer)
1930 Le Mystère de la Villa Rose (French version of
Leslie Hiscott’s At the Villa Rose / USA: Mystery
at the Villa Rose; co-director with René
Hervil)
La Lettre
Chérie
Bon Appétit, Messieurs (short)
Quelques Chansons (short)
The Nipper / USA: The Brat (UK)
1931 Marions-nous (French version of Frank Tuttle’s
Wedding Night; also Spanish version: Su noche
de bodas; USA)
A Man of Mayfair (UK)
These Charming People (UK)
Le Bouif au Salon (short)
La Brigade du Bruit (short)
Le Collier de Perles (short)
Conférence sur la beauté (short)
La Danse nouvelle (short)
La Disparue (short)
En Zinc sec (short)
Le Garçon de Café (short)
La Girouette sur le Toit (short)
La Malle (short)
Le Meeting (short)
Octave (short)
Ohé! Ohé! (short)
Par T.S.F. / T.S.F. (short)
Pas d’Histoires (short)
Popaul veut dormir (short)
Les Rois Mages (short)
Sa Nuit de Noces (short)
Sur le Tas de Sable (short)
Une Idée de Génie (short)
Un Joli Succès (short)
Voici le Printemps (short)
1932 Il est charmant / USA: He Is Charming (also
Swedish version: Stutender i Paris; France /
Sweden)
Cognasse (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
La Femme Poisson (short)
Passionnément (René Guissart completed the
fi lm after Louis Mercanton’s death)
MERCIER, MARIO (1935, France–)
MÉRÉ, PIERRE • 713
Passionately interested in occultism and shamanism,
he authored many books on these matters and directed
a couple of movies on witchcraft (he created
the word “Witchcinema” to describe his cinematographic
work). He is also a painter and a novelist.
Filmography
1965 Les Dieux en Colère (16-mm short; unreleased)
1972 La Goulve / USA: Erotic Witchcraft (co-director
with Bépi Fontana; also screenwriter)
1975 La Papesse / USA: A Woman Possessed (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
MÉRÉ, PIERRE (1912, Paris, France–1992, France)
Before beginning a directing career, he was successively
a second assistant camera operator (1937