Philippe Hériat
Born Raymond Gérard Payelle, he studied with film director René Clair and in 1920 made his debut in silent film. Over the next fifteen years, he appeared in secondary roles in another twenty-five films including the 1927 Abel Gance masterpiece, Napoleon. In 1949 Hériat collaborated with film director Jean Delannoy to write the screenplay for the film Le Secret de Mayerling. Philippe Hériat won the 1931 Prix Renaudot for his book L'Innocent. In 1939 he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Enfants gâtés, and the 1947 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Famille Boussardel. In 1949 he was made a member of the Académie Goncourt, a position he held until his death in 1971. Hériat is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Cast
Lucrezia Borgia
Filippo, sculptor-lover
The Inhuman Woman
Djorah de Nopur
Prometheus, Banker
Unknown
The Gallery of Monsters
La géante
La chaussée des géants
Unknown
The Flood
Alban Perrin
Nothing but Time
Unknown
Divine
Lutuf-Allah
Napoleon at St. Helena
General Bertrand
Bonaparte et la révolution
Salicetti (archive footage)
Napoleon
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
The Man of the Sea
Le protecteur
The Late Mathias Pascal
L'aide assesseur
Saint Joan the Maid
Gilles de Rays
Le Carnaval des vérités
Unknown
El Dorado
Joao, le bouffon
Sea Fever
Unknown
Miracle of the Wolves
Unknown
Don Juan et Faust
Wagner
Le marchand de plaisirs
Unknown
La jalousie du barbouillé
Unknown
Napoléon Bonaparte
Salicetti
Rothchild
Diégo
Change of Heart
Ralph
Weaker Sex
Unknown
