Georges Benoît
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Georges Benoît | |
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Born | 27 November 1883 |
Died | 1942 |
Occupation | Director Cinematographer Actor |
Years active | 1915 - 1942 |
Georges Benoît (27 November 1883 – 1942) was a French cinematographer who worked on more than sixty films during his career. During the silent era, he was employed mostly in Hollywood. Later he worked in his native France on films such as Jacques Tourneur's Departure (1931).[1] Between 1929 and 1934 he appeared in approximately ten films as an actor.
Benoît also worked in Argentina where he directed the 1919 film Juan Sin Ropa and was cinematographer for the historical epic The Charge of the Gauchos (1928).[2]
Selected filmography
- Regeneration (1915)
- Carmen (1915)
- The Serpent (1916)
- Blue Blood and Red (1916)
- When False Tongues Speak (1917)
- The Wonder Man (1920)
- The Little 'Fraid Lady (1920)
- What's a Wife Worth? (1921)
- Live and Let Live (1921)
- Trilby (1923)
- Welcome Stranger (1924) (*as George Benoit)
- Why Get Married? (1924)
- Off the Highway (1925)
- Stop Flirting (1925)
- West of Broadway (1926)
- Pals in Paradise (1926)
- The Speeding Venus (1926)
- Forbidden Waters (1926)
- The Danger Girl (1926)
- No Control (1927)
- The Charge of the Gauchos (1928)
- Captain Fracasse (1929)
- Departure (1931)
- In the Name of the Law (1932)
- The Two Orphans (1933)
- The Uncle from Peking (1934)
- Return to Paradise (1935)
- Let's Make a Dream (1936)
- The Secret of Polichinelle (1936)
- The Baker's Wife (1938)
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