
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in 66 films between 1911 and 1934. Chautard was born in Paris. After a significant career beginning as a stage actor at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and moving up to the head of film production at Éclair Films' Paris studio in 1913, Chautard emigrated to the United States around 1914. From 1914 to about 1918, Chautard worked for the World Film Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At World, along with a group of other French-speaking film technicians including Maurice Tourneur, Léonce Perret, George Archainbaud, Albert Capellani and Lucien Andriot, he developed such films as the 1915 version of Camille, and taught a young apprentice film cutter at the World studio: Josef von Sternberg. In 1919 Chautard hired von Sternberg as his assistant director for The Mystery of the Yellow Room, for his own short-lived production company. Choosing Hollywood over a return to France, Chautard went to work for Famous Players-Lasky and other studios. He received some high-profile assignments, for instance a Colleen Moore vehicle and two features for Derelys Perdue, but he was a generation older than other directors in Hollywood's French colony. After 1924 Chautard did not direct again, but continued to make film appearances, in the von Sternberg film Blonde Venus (1932), where he appears for his former protege as "Night club owner Chautard". Chautard died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

The Fires of Youth

Paid in Full

The Heart of a Hero

Whispering Shadows

Daytime Wives

Le Mystère du Pont Notre Dame

Le Roman d'un Caissier

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Le Cœur et les yeux

Love's Crucible

Under the Greenwood Tree

The Marriage Price

His Parisian Wife

Eyes of the Soul

The Eternal Temptress

The Web of Desire

Out of the Shadow

Under False Colors

The Family Honor

Forget-Me-Not

The Boss

Magda

Forsaking All Others

All Man

Sudden Riches

The Little Dutch Girl

Living Lies

A Daughter of the Old South

Untamed Youth

The Black Panther's Cub

A Hungry Heart

The Ordeal of Rosetta

Youth to Youth

The Marionettes

The House of Glass

The Man Who Forgot

The Glory of Clementina

Friday the 13th

A Man from Wyoming

Paris at Midnight

Bardelys the Magnificent

第七天国

生活の設計

The California Trail

Le Petit Café

The Noose

Shanghai Express

Blonde Venus

Cock of the Air

The Solitaire Man

Broken Hearts of Hollywood

モロッコ

Marianne

Lilac Time

Now We're in the Air

Man of Two Worlds

Wonder Bar

Upstream

Just Like Heaven

The Three Musketeers

The Common Law

The Devil's in Love

The Man from Yesterday

The Yellow Ticket

The Road to Reno

Estrellados

Le Bluffeur

Le Spectre vert

Whispering Sage

Blonde or Brunette

Le procès de Mary Dugan

Tiger Rose

La Piste des géants

Caught in the Fog

Adoration

House of Horror

Révolte dans la prison

His Tiger Lady

The Love Mart

My Official Wife

Out of the Ruins

The Flaming Forest

Times Square

Contre-enquête

L'énigmatique Monsieur Parkes