Name
Renée Carl
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1875-06-10
Deathday
1954-07-31 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Fontenay-le-Comte
Biography
Renée Carl (10 June 1875 – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She was born in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France, and died in Paris, France.
Between 1907 and 1937, she appeared in 186 films. A favorite of film director Louis Feuillade, she appeared in, at least, 150 films directed by him including the short Bébé and Bout de Zan comedies. Of the many characters she played in Feuillade's films, perhaps her most famous portrayal was that of Lady Beltham, mistress of the notorious Fantômas in the serial of the same name. She makes an uncredited appearance, as "L'Andalouse," in The Vampires.
In 1922, she directed and starred in the film A Shout from the Abyss, also known as Un cri dans l'abîme. In a 1924 interview for Mon Ciné magazine, she stated that she was introduced to film-making through her friend Léonie Richard.
Selected filmography
Known For
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Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of ...
5.6
A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity....
6.5
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he...
5.8
A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about ...
5.6
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going ...
5.9
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzan...
5.7
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests abou...
5
Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in ...
5.3
Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes dis...
- 1937 Pépé le Moko as 'La Mère Tarte'
- 1912 La conquête d'Aurélia
- 1911 Le Mariage de l'aînée
- 1911 A General Strike
- 1911 Le Bas de laine
- 1911 Le Poison
- 1911 La Souris blanche
- 1911 Le Chef-lieu de canton
- 1911 Tant que vous serez heureux
- 1912 Les Braves Gens
- 1912 Le Pont sur l'abîme
- 1912 The Dwarf as La mère
- 1911 The Defect as Anna Moulin, dite Nana
- 1911 The Trust, or The Battles for Money as Juliette Michaud
- 1909 Custody of the Child as Mother
- 1910 Bébé apache
- 1912 The Heart and the Money as Madame Mauguiot
- 1912 The Obsession as Mme Trévoux
- 1911 Le Fils de Locuste
- 1908 A Very Fine Lady as La dame vraiment bien
- 1910 The Nativity
- 1913 The Open Eyes
- 1935 Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
- 1910 La Trouvaille de Bébé
- 1910 André Chénier
- 1910 Le Festin de Balthazar
- 1913 L'Intruse as La Breschard
- 1912 Bout-de-Zan revient du cirque
- 1926 Les Larmes de Colette
- 1913 Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
- 1909 The Huguenot
- 1925 Les Misérables as La Thénardier
- 1912 Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks
- 1912 The Dungeon
- 1911 Life As It Is
- 1911 The Vipers
- 1913 The Agony of Byzantium as The Wife of Emperor Constantine
- 1913 Fantômas as Lady Beltham
- 1912 La Maison des lions
- 1913 Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant as Charitable lady
- 1912 La Cassette de l'émigrée as Marie-Jeanne la lingère
- 1908 The Legend of the Spinner as La Muse
- 1913 La Vengeance du sergent de la ville
- 1908 The Hotel of Silence
- 1909 Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
- 1907 The Colonel's Account
- 1912 Jimmy Pulls The Trigger as Bébé mother
- 1912 A Race for Millions
- 1914 The Cavalry as Mme de Moranges
- 1910 The Fault of Another
- 1912 In the Land of Lions as La Morena
- 1910 Cursed Be the War
- 1909 Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
- 1910 Esther
- 1910 Jephthah's Daughter
- 1909 Judith and Holophernes as Judith
- 1910 The Seven Deadly Sins
- 1910 The Exodus
- 1914 The Toledo Chest
- 1912 The Living Dead
- 1910 The Guardian of Camargue
- 1923 The Bachelor Girl as Mme. Ambrat
- 1910 L’Aventurière
- 1912 L'Accident
- 1914 The Seneschal's Diamond
- 1914 The Wagon Child
- 1922 L'aviateur masqué
- 1908 The Legend of Prometheus
- 1911 Bébé a le béguin
- 1912 The Fate of Mothers
- 1914 At the Hour of Dawn
- 1914 Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
- 1911 Bébé Corrects His Father as Mother
- 1914 Severo Torelli as Dona Pia
- 1909 The Shipwreck
- 1909 The Imager of Mont Saint-Michel
- 1911 Thaïs
- 1911 Bébé nègre
- 1910 Baby Fisherman
- 1910 Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
- 1913 The Secret of Forçat
- 1912 Bébé veut payer ses dettes
- 1912 Bébé n’aime pas sa concierge as Bébé's mother
- 1912 Le Suicide de Bébé as La mère de Bébé
- 1909 The Blind Man of Jerusalem
- 1911 Bébé roi de Rome as la mère de Bébé
- 1914 Manon de Montmartre as Mme Bernard
- 1909 La Bous Bous Mée as La femme jalouse
- 1909 Les Vieux
- 1908 The Secret of the Glacier
- 1909 Idylle corinthienne
- 1913 Fantômas ( 5 episodes ) as Lady Beltham
