Jacques Feyder

Jacques Feyder

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1885-07-21
Deathday: 1948-05-24 (62 years old)

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Biography

Jacques Feyder , was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928.


Born Jacques Léon Louis Frédérix in Ixelles, Belgium, at age twenty-five however he moved to Paris where he pursued an interest in acting, first on stage and then in film, adopting the name Jacques Feyder. He joined the Gaumont Film Company and in 1914 he became an assistant director with Gaston Ravel. He started directing films for Gaumont in 1916, but his career was interrupted by service with the Belgian army during 1917-1919.


After the end of the war, he returned to filmmaking and quickly built a reputation as one of the most innovative directors in French cinema. L'Atlantide (1921) (based on the novel by Pierre Benoit), and Crainquebille (1922) (from the novel by Anatole France) were his first major films to achieve public and critical attention. He also contributed screenplays of films for other directors. His last silent film in France was Les Nouveaux Messieurs, a topical political satire which provoked calls for it to be banned in France for "insulting the dignity of parliament and its ministers".


By this time Feyder had accepted an offer from MGM to work in Hollywood, where in 1929 his first project was directing Greta Garbo in The Kiss, her last silent film. It was in Hollywood that he made the transition to sound films; even before he had worked with sound films, Feyder declared himself to be a firm believer in their future, in contrast with some of his French contemporaries.


Disillusioned with the Hollywood system, Feyder returned to France in 1933. During the next three years he made three of his most successful films, all of them in collaboration with screenwriter Charles Spaak and featuring Françoise Rosay in a leading role. Le Grand Jeu (1934) and Pension Mimosas (1935) were both significant creations in the style of poetic realism; La Kermesse héroïque (1935) (also known as Carnival in Flanders) was a meticulously staged period film with contemporary political resonances, which earned Feyder several international awards.


Feyder went on to direct films in England and Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. Following the Nazi occupation in 1940, which led to the banning of La Kermesse héroïque, he left France for the safety of Switzerland, and directed a last film there, Une femme disparaît (1942).


In 1917, Feyder had married Parisian-born actress Françoise Rosay (1891–1974) with whom he had three sons; she acted in many of his films and collaborated with him as writer and assistant director on Visages d'enfants.


Jacques Feyder died in 1948 at Prangins, Switzerland. A school (lycée) in Épinay-sur-Seine in the north of Paris was named in his honour in 1977; Épinay was the location of the Tobis film studios where Feyder made Le Grand Jeu and Pension Mimosas.

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Filmography

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Movies 40

Director 34

Writer 2

TV Shows 1

self 1

Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)

TV
Writer
Flesh and the Woman

Flesh and the Woman (1954)

Movie
Director
Back Streets of Paris

Back Streets of Paris (1946)

Movie
Director
Une femme disparaît

Une femme disparaît (1944)

Movie
Director
Matura-Reise

Matura-Reise (1943)

Movie
Director
Law of the North

Law of the North (1939)

Movie
Director
Fahrendes Volk

Fahrendes Volk (1938)

Movie
Director
People Who Travel

People Who Travel (1938)

Movie
Director
Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour (1937)

Movie
Director
Carnival in Flanders

Carnival in Flanders (1936)

Movie
Director
Carnival in Flanders

Carnival in Flanders (1935)

Movie
6
Director
Pension Mimosas

Pension Mimosas (1935)

Movie
Director
The Great Game

The Great Game (1934)

Movie
Director
Son of India

Son of India (1931)

Movie
Director
The Big House

The Big House (1931)

Movie
Director
Daybreak

Daybreak (1931)

Movie
Director
Anna Christie

Anna Christie (1930)

Movie
Director
If the Emperor Only Knew That

If the Emperor Only Knew That (1930)

Movie
Director
Olympia

Olympia (1930)

Movie
Director
The Green Specter

The Green Specter (1930)

Movie
Director
The New Gentlemen

The New Gentlemen (1929)

Movie
Director
The Kiss

The Kiss (1929)

Movie
6
Writer
The Lighthouse Keepers

The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)

Movie
Director
Thérèse Raquin

Thérèse Raquin (1928)

Movie
Director
Gribiche

Gribiche (1926)

Movie
Director
Carmen

Carmen (1926)

Movie
Adaptation
The Red Head

The Red Head (1925)

Movie
Director
Faces of Children

Faces of Children (1925)

Movie
Director
The Portrait

The Portrait (1923)

Movie
Director
Crainquebille

Crainquebille (1922)

Movie
Director
L'Atlantide

L'Atlantide (1921)

Movie
Director
La Faute d'orthographe

La Faute d'orthographe (1918)

Movie
Director
L'instinct est maître

L'instinct est maître (1917)

Movie
Director
Biscot on the Wrong Floor

Biscot on the Wrong Floor (1916)

Movie
Director
Heads... and the Women Who Use Them

Heads... and the Women Who Use Them (1916)

Movie
Director
The Clutching Foot

The Clutching Foot (1916)

Movie
Director
Friendly Advice

Friendly Advice (1916)

Movie
Actor
Monsieur Pinson policier

Monsieur Pinson policier (1916)

Movie
Assistant Director
Feet and Hands

Feet and Hands (1915)

Movie
Un diplomate
Protéa

Protéa (1913)

Movie
Le Prince
Cinderella or The Glass Slipper

Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (1912)

Movie

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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1885-07-21

Deathday
1948-05-24 (62 years old)

Birth Place
Ixelles - Elsene, Belgium

Relationships
Françoise Rosay (1917-01-01 - 1948-01-01)

Children
Paul Feyder, Bernard Farrel

Citizenships
France, Belgium


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