Name
Philippe Hériat
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1898-09-15
Deathday
1971-10-10 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
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
Known For
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A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men...
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Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. ...
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Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a ter...
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The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They trave...
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The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the rag...
- 1935 Lucrezia Borgia as Filippo, sculptor-lover
- 1924 The Inhuman Woman as Djorah de Nopur
- 1921 Prometheus, Banker
- 1924 The Gallery of Monsters as La géante
- 1926 La chaussée des géants
- 1924 The Flood as Alban Perrin
- 1926 Nothing But Time
- 1935 Divine as Lutuf-Allah
- 1929 Napoleon at St. Helena as General Bertrand
- 1972 Bonaparte et la révolution as Salicetti (archive footage)
- 1927 Napoleon as Antoine Christophe Saliceti
- 1920 The Man of the Sea as Le protecteur
- 1925 The Late Mathias Pascal as L'aide assesseur
- 1929 Saint Joan the Maid as Gilles de Rays
- 1920 Le Carnaval des vérités
- 1921 El Dorado as Joao, le bouffon
- 1927 Sea Fever
- 1924 Miracle of the Wolves
- 1922 Don Juan et Faust as Wagner
- 1923 Le marchand de plaisirs
- 1927 La jalousie du barbouillé
- 1935 Napoléon Bonaparte as Salicetti
- 1934 Rothchild as Diégo
- 1928 Change of Heart as Ralph
- 1933 Weaker Sex
- 1930 Détresse as Jean Mérit
