Philippe Hériat
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling.
Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel.
In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1837 |
| Birthday | 1898-09-15 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Raymond Gérard Payelle, |
1935
Lucrezia Borgia
5.278/9
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one o...
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Lucrezia Borgia
1924
The Inhuman Woman
6.853/34
A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedis...
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The Inhuman Woman
1921
Prometheus, Banker
6.25/4
A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.
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Prometheus, Banker
1924
The Gallery of Monsters
7.778/9
The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...
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The Gallery of Monsters
1926
La chaussée des géants
9/1
When he was a child, François Gérard got to know Antiope, a little foreigner, in a Paris park. As an adult, he sees her again in her native country, M...
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La chaussée des géants
1924
The Flood
6/6
In a village on the banks of the Rhone river, Alban, a young farmer, is about to marry Margot. Monsieur Broc, a town hall employee, discovers his daug...
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The Flood
1926
Nothing But Time
7.3/20
The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.
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Nothing But Time
1935
Divine
7/5
A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
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Divine
1929
Napoleon at St. Helena
5.9/5
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Napoleon at St. Helena
1972
Bonaparte et la révolution
7/1
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965...
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Bonaparte et la révolution
1927
Napoleon
7.806/218
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his f...
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Napoleon
1920
The Man of the Sea
5.962/13
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when...
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The Man of the Sea
1925
The Late Mathias Pascal
6.963/27
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his...
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The Late Mathias Pascal
1929
Saint Joan the Maid
6.429/7
This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but i...
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Saint Joan the Maid
1920
Le Carnaval des vérités
7/1
Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Cl...
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Le Carnaval des vérités
1921
El Dorado
6.737/19
In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...
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El Dorado
1927
Sea Fever
6.6/5
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.
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Sea Fever
1924
Miracle of the Wolves
5.833/6
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled...
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Miracle of the Wolves
1922
Don Juan et Faust
10/1
Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
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Don Juan et Faust
1923
Le marchand de plaisirs
9/1
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Le marchand de plaisirs
1927
La jalousie du barbouillé
7/1
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La jalousie du barbouillé
1935
Napoléon Bonaparte
8.667/3
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
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Napoléon Bonaparte
1934
Rothchild
8/2
An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast sca...
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Rothchild
1928
Change of Heart
10/1
Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing w...
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Change of Heart
1933
Weaker Sex
10/1
The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children...
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Weaker Sex
1930
Détresse
10/1
Maxime, who came to his half-brother Jean’s wedding, is captivated by the young bride.
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