Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

736 • MONCA, GEORGES
Gilles Marchand). Other credit (as actor): 1996 Le
Manège du Métro Saint-Paul (Zaïda Ghorab-Volta).
Filmography
1983 The Blanket (short)
1984 Last Chance (short)
1987 Le Gynécologue et sa Secrétaire (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist, cinematographer)
1994 Intimité (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
2000 Harry, un Ami qui vous veut du Bien / UK: Harry,
He’s Here to Help / USA: Harry Is Here to Help
/ With a Friend Like Harry, un Ami qui vous veut
du bien (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2005 Lemming (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
MONCA, GEORGES (1888–January 15, 1940,
France)
A former stage actor, he was hired by Pathé as an
actor (1908 Riquet à la Houppe, short, Albert Capellani;
Le Roman d’un Malheureux / USA: A Poor Man’s
Romance, short, Lucien Nonguet; Victime de sa Probité
/ USA: A Victim of His Honesty / A Victim of His Own
Honesty, short, Lucien Nonguet; 1910 Les Débuts de
Max au Cinéma / Les Débuts de Max au Cinématographe
/ UK: Max Linder’s Debut as a Cinematograph
Artist / USA: Max’s First Job, short, as himself, Louis
J. Gasnier, Max Linder) and soon became a director.
From 1910 to 1919, he fi lmed most of the Prince’s
shorts and worked with such stars as Max Linder
and Mistinguett. He often collaborated with Maurice
Kéroul, who wrote (and sometimes co-directed)
many of his movies. Besides his directing career, he
had parallel activities: fi lm supervisor (1911 Le Feu
au Couvent, short, Gaston Benoît), adapter (1912 Les
Surprises du Divorce, short, Prince; 1913 Trois Femmes
pour un Mari, Prince; Le Bon Juge, Prince; Le Coup de
Fouet, Prince; Ferdinand le Noceur, Prince; Le Fils à
Papa, Prince; Monsieur le Directeur, as screenwriter,
Prince; Le Roi Koko, Prince; 1914 Les Trente Millions
de Gladiator, Prince; Bébé, short, Prince; La Famille de
Boléro, short, Prince; La Femme à Papa, short, Prince;
Le Voyage de Corbillon, short, Prince; 1916 La Mariée
récalcitrante, short, as screenwriter, Prince; 1918 No.
30 Série 10, short, Prince; 1920 Si jamais je te pince!,
Prince), and production manager (1932 La Voix qui
meurt, Gennaro Dini).
Filmography
1907 Les Apprentissages de Boireau / UK: Jim’s Apprenticeship
(short)
La Jolie Dactylographe / USA: The Pretty Typist
(short)
1908 A Cache-Cache / USA: Hide and Seek (short)
L’Armoire normande (short)
Boireau a mangé de l’Ail / USA: Jim Is Fond of
Garlic (short)
Boireau—Consentement forcé / USA: Tricked
into Giving His Consent (short)
Boireau—Deux vieux Amis de Collège / USA: Old
College Chums (short)
Les Deux Modèles / USA: The Two Models
(short)
Fritt et Plock Détectives / USA: Two Clever Detectives
(short)
L’Homme-Singe / Boireau—L’Homme Singe /
USA: The Man Monkey (short)
La Journée d’un Billet de Banque (short)
Le Manuel du parfait Gentleman / USA: Manual
of a Perfect Gentleman (short)
Semelles de Caoutchouc / Boireau—Semelles de
Caoutchouc / USA: Rubber Heels (short)
Un Cœur trop infl ammable / Boireau—Un Cœur
trop infl ammable (short)
Une Douzaine d’œufs frais / USA: A Dozen Fried
Eggs (short)
Un Monsieur qui suit les Dames (short)
1909 Ce Bon Docteur (short)
Ce que Femme veut (short)
Le Chien de Montargis (short)
Les Comédiens derrière la Toile (short)
Les Deux Cambrioleurs / USA: The Two Raffl es
(short)
Deux Fiancés à l’Epreuve / USA: Testing Their
Love (short)
Les Deux Orphelines (short)
La Dot d’Herminie (short)
Elle est partie (short)
L’Epouvantail (short)
Femme de Chambre improvisée (short)
Le Foulard merveilleux / Boireau—Le Foulard
merveilleux (co-director with Albert Capellani)
Histoire d’un Billet de Banque / La Journée d’un
Billet de Banque de Cent Francs / USA: The Story
of a Banknote (short)
Jim Blackwood Jockey / USA: The Jockey (short)
Jim et Willy veulent se marier / Jim et Willy à
Paris (short)
La Jolie Manucure / Rigadin et la jolie Manucure
(short)