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Henri Pouctal
Born	c. 1856 La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne, France
Died	February 3, 1922(1922-02-03) (aged 65–66) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Film director, actor, screenwriter, art director
Years active	1908—1922

Henri Pouctal (c. 1856 – 3 February 1922) was an early French silent film director, screenwriter, and actor of the stage and film. He is best known for his directorship on silent films of the 1910s, notably Alsace (1916) or Chantecoq (1916), and The Count of Monte Cristo serials in 1918.

He was a stage actor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, and André Antoine's Théâtre Libre. The first film directed by him was Le Curé de Campagne in 1908. Pouctal directed about 100 films between 1908 and 1922. By 1913, he became the artistic director of Le Film d'Art production company.

Filmography

• Le Curé de Campagne (1908)
• A Conquest [fr] (1911)
• La Dame aux Camélias (1912)
• The Tragedy of the Mine [fr] (1913)
• La Fille du Boche (1915)
• La Menace (1915)
• Alsace (1916)
• Chantecoq (1916)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1918)
• Travail (1920), based on the book, Travail (1901) by Emile Zola
• Gigolette (1920)
• The Crime of Bouif (1922)
• Saint Joan the Maid (1929)

References

1. ^ Rège, Philippe (2009-12-11). Encyclopedia of French Film Directors. Scarecrow Press. p. 837. ISBN 978-0-8108-6939-4.
2. ^ Abel, Richard; Myrent, Glenn (2005). "Pouctal, Henri". Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 529. ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5.
3. Karney, Robyn; Finler, Joel Waldo; Bergan, Ronald (2006). Cinema Year by Year: The Complete Illustrated History of Film. Dorling Kindersley. p. 852. ISBN 978-0-7566-2259-6.
4. Furhammar, Leif; Isaksson, Folke (1971). Politics and Film. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-289-79813-3.
5. Peiró, Eva Woods (2012). White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musical Films. University of Minnesota Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-8166-4584-8.
6. ^ Griffiths, Kate; Watts, Andrew (2020-12-24). The History of French Literature on Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 30, 47. ISBN 978-1-5013-1181-9.

External links

• Henri Pouctal at IMDb

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