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Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918.

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Léon Mathot
Born	(1886-03-05)5 March 1886 Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Died	6 March 1968(1968-03-06) (aged 82) Paris
Occupation	actor
Years active	1906–1939 (actor) 1927–1953 (director)

He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein.

He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.

Selected filmography

• Les Gaz mortels (1916)
• The Zone of Death (1917)
• Barberousse (1917)
• Le droit à la vie (1917)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1918)
• In Old Alsace (1920)
• The Empire of Diamonds (1920)
• Coeur fidèle (1923)
• My Uncle Benjamin (1924)
• The Painter and His Model (1925)
• Yasmina (1927)
• La Maison de la Fléche (1930)
• The Mystery of the Villa Rose (1930)
• Instinct (1930)
• Kiss Me (1932)
• Aloha, le chant des îles (1937)
• Sacred Woods (1939)
• Immediate Call (1939)
• The Man Without a Name (1943)
• Night Warning (1946)
• The Dancer of Marrakesh (1949)
• My Childish Father (1953)

External links

• Léon Mathot at IMDb

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