Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

208 • CHAUFOUR, LUCILE
CHAUFOUR, LUCILE
Filmography
1988 Léone, Mère et Fils (documentary; short)
1992 L’Amertume du Chocolat (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2004 Violent Days – Dry (also screenwriter, dialogist,
co-composer)
CHAUSSOIS, DOMINIQUE
Ten years after his only directing effort, he co-wrote
L’Homme ideal (Xavier Gélin, 1997).
Filmography
1987 Le Moustachu (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CHAUTARD, EMILE (1881, Avignon, Paris, France–
April 24, 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA)
A former actor at the Odeon, he began working
for Eclair in 1909 and became artistic director of a
branch of that society, the A.G.A.D., in 1910. He wrote
a few of Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset’s movies (1912 Le
Mystère de Notre-Dame de Paris / Le Mystère du Pont
Notre-Dame; La Tourmente, also actor) and played in
fi lms (1911 La Savelli, short, Camille de Morlhon;
Fouquet, l’Homme au Masque de Fer, Camille de Morlhon;
Le Poison de l’Humanité / USA: Alcohol: The Poison
of Humanity, Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset; 1913 Protéa,
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset). From 1915 to 1924, he
settled in the USA, where he shot many movies before
resuming his acting career performing supporting
roles in about sixty pictures (from 1917 A Girl’s
Folly, Maurice Tourneur, to 1934 Viva Villa!, uncredited,
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman).
His stepson was American director George Archainbaud
(1890–1959). He died of organ failure.
Filmography
1909 Après la Chute de l’Aigle (short; unconfi rmed;
directed by Emile Chautard or Victorin Jasset;
also screenwriter)
1910 Barberine / La Quenouille de Barberine / USA:
Barberine (short)
Eugènie Grandet (short)
Le Voleur volé / USA: The Elusive Robber (short)
La Petite Maman / USA: The Little Mother
(short; also screenwriter)
Entre le Devoir et l’Honneur / USA: Between Duty
and Honor / Between Love and Honor (short)
Jean le Pion (short)
Le Médecin malgré lui (short)
La Petite Etoile (short)
Le Gamin de Paris (short)
Le Trait d’Union (short; also screenwriter)
Cavalleria rusticana (short)
Le Coup de Vent (short)
1911 Chien et Loup / Chiens et Loups / USA: Dog and
Wolf (short; also screenwriter)
Pour Maman / USA: For Their Mother (short;
also screenwriter)
César Birotteau (short)
Le Cœur et les Yeux (short; also screenwriter)
L’Ingénieux Accident / USA: The Ingenious Accident
(short)
Mariage aux Etoiles / USA: Marriage in the Stars
(short; also screenwriter)
Mater Dolorosa / USA: The Sorrowful Mother
(short)
Le Mur mitoyen (short)
Cruelle Illusion (short)
Le Grand-Père (short; also screenwriter)
L’Aventure de Miette / USA: Miette’s Adventures
(short; also screenwriter)
La Fleur des Neiges (short; also screenwriter)
Quand les Feuilles tomberont / USA: When the
Leaves Fall (short; also screenwriter)
L’Ennemi (short; also actor)
Les Mains / USA: The Hands (short; co-director
with Victorin Jasset)
La Poupée japonaise (short)
La Poison de l’Humanité / USA: Alcohol: The
Poison of Humanity (co-director with Victorin
Jasset; also screenwriter, actor)
Une Nuit d’Epouvante / USA: A Terrible Night
(USA)
Vieux Papiers, vieux Souvenirs / USA: Old Papers,
Old Souvenirs (short)
La Légende de l’Aigle—A la Veille d’Austerlitz /
USA: On the Eve of Austerlitz (short)
1912 Conscience d’Enfant (short)
Le Bonhomme Jadis / USA: The Kind Old Man
(short; also screenwriter)
La Dame de chez Maxim’s (short)
La Légende de l’Aigle—Tu ne tueras point (short)
La Légende de l’Aigle—Il était Trois Grenadiers
(short)
La Légende de l’Aigle—La Boucle de Cheveux /
USA: The Lock of Hair (short)
La Légende de l’Aigle—Le Déserteur (short)
Sapho (short)