Renée Carl
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.326 |
| Birthday | 1875-06-10 |
| Place of Birth | Fontenay-le-Comte |
| Also Known As |
1937
Pépé le Moko
7.2/154
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries t...
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Pépé le Moko
1912
The Dwarf
4.1/6
A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows who...
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The Dwarf
1910
Bébé apache
0/0
Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the group's trust and bringing t...
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Bébé apache
1912
The Heart and the Money
5.2/11
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.
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The Heart and the Money
1912
The Obsession
5.3/13
A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her husban...
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The Obsession
1911
The Defect
5.2/8
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the hea...
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The Defect
1911
The Trust, or The Battles for Money
5.2/12
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.
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The Trust, or The Battles for Money
1909
Custody of the Child
4.8/11
Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has...
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Custody of the Child
1911
Le fils de Locuste
4.7/3
The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.
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Le fils de Locuste
1908
A Very Fine Lady
5.3/17
Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walk...
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A Very Fine Lady
1910
The Nativity
5.2/9
A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.
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The Nativity
1909
The Huguenot
0/0
Directed by Louis Feuillade.
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The Huguenot
1935
Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
0/0
In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a title that would translate from the French as 'A gentl...
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Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
1910
La trouvaille de Bébé
0/0
Directed by Louis Feuillade.
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La trouvaille de Bébé
1910
André Chénier
4.2/2
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
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André Chénier
1910
Le Festin de Balthazar
0/0
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.
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Le Festin de Balthazar
1913
L'Intruse
5.2/2
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
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L'Intruse
1912
Bout-de-Zan revient du cirque
0/0
After returning from the circus, Bout-de-Zan starts doing acrobatic tricks.
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Bout-de-Zan revient du cirque
1926
Les Larmes de Colette
0/0
After the divorce of her parents, Colette gets sent to her grandfather's who she never really knows. Mrs. Lapierre, her new governess is very severe i...
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Les Larmes de Colette
1913
Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
5/1
One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...
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Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
1912
Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks
0/0
At the front, Bébé meets two Russian soldiers.
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Napoléon, Bébé, and the Cossacks
1912
The Dungeon
0/0
A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.
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The Dungeon
1911
Life As It Is
0/0
A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913
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Life As It Is
1911
The Vipers
4.5/2
Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.
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The Vipers
1909
Judith and Holophernes
0/0
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Judith and Holophernes
1913
Fantômas
6.9/29
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecu...
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Fantômas
1912
La maison des lions
4.8/3
Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away b...
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La maison des lions
1913
Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
6.3/15
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it ar...
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Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
1908
The Legend of the Spinner
5.5/4
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...
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The Legend of the Spinner
1907
The Colonel's Account
5.4/11
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane ol...
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The Colonel's Account
1908
The Legend of the Spinner
5.5/4
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms...
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The Legend of the Spinner
1913
La vengeance du sergent de la ville
0/0
A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form of psych...
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La vengeance du sergent de la ville
1908
L'hôtel du silence
4.5/4
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.
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L'hôtel du silence
1909
Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
4/1
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and...
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Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
1912
Jimmy Pulls The Trigger
4.7/3
A short from Feuillade's Bébé series
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Jimmy Pulls The Trigger
1912
A Race for Millions
0/0
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
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A Race for Millions
1914
The Cavalry
0/0
A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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The Cavalry
1910
The Fault of Another
0/0
A silent short film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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The Fault of Another
1912
In the Land of Lions
0/0
A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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In the Land of Lions
1910
Cursed Be the War
0/0
A short silent film about war
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Cursed Be the War
1909
Le monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
5/1
At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction:...
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Le monsieur qui a mangé du taureau
1910
Esther
6.2/2
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Esther
1910
Jephté's Daughter
0/0
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Jephté's Daughter
1910
The Seven Deadly Sins
0/0
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1910
The Exodus
0/0
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The Exodus
1914
The Toledo Chest
0/0
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The Toledo Chest
1912
The Living Dead
0/0
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The Living Dead
1910
The Guardian of Camargue
6/1
This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A g...
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The Guardian of Camargue
1923
La Garçonne
1/1
Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that he...
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La Garçonne
1910
L’aventurière
0/0
Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her intent...
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L’aventurière
1912
L'accident
0/0
On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.
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L'accident
1914
The Seneschal's Diamond
0/0
A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she...
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The Seneschal's Diamond
1914
The Wagon Child
0/0
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The Wagon Child
1922
L'aviateur masqué
0/0
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L'aviateur masqué
1908
The Legend of Prometheus
0/0
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The Legend of Prometheus
1911
Bébé a le béguin
0/0
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Bébé a le béguin
1912
The Fate of Mothers
0/0
Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series
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The Fate of Mothers
1914
At the Hour of Dawn
0/0
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in tim...
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At the Hour of Dawn
1914
Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
0/0
Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan connects the telephone to the room of the concierge, wh...
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Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone
1911
Bébé Corrects His Father
0/0
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Bébé Corrects His Father
1914
Severo Torelli
0/0
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
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Severo Torelli
1909
The Shipwreck
0/0
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The Shipwreck
1909
The Imager of Mont Saint-Michel
0/0
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The Imager of Mont Saint-Michel
1911
Thaïs
0/0
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Thaïs
1910
Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
0/0
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Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
1911
Bébé nègre
0/0
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Bébé nègre
1910
Baby Fisherman
0/0
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Baby Fisherman
1913
The Secret of Forçat
0/0
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The Secret of Forçat
1912
Bébé veut payer ses dettes
0/0
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Bébé veut payer ses dettes
1911
Le Mariage de l'aînée
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
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Le Mariage de l'aînée
1911
A General Strike
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
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A General Strike
1911
Le Bas de laine
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
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Le Bas de laine
1911
Le poison
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
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Le poison
1911
La Souris blanche
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This...
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La Souris blanche
1911
Le Chef-lieu de canton
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
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Le Chef-lieu de canton
1911
Tant que vous serez heureux
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
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Tant que vous serez heureux
1912
Les Braves Gens
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
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Les Braves Gens
1912
Le Pont sur l'abîme
0/0
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
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Le Pont sur l'abîme
1925
Les Misérables
5.8/5
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soo...
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Les Misérables
1912
La cassette de l'émigrée
0/0
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La cassette de l'émigrée
1912
La conquête d'Aurélia
0/0
1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.
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La conquête d'Aurélia
1913
The Open Eyes
0/0
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The Open Eyes
1913
The Agony of Byzantium
5.7/13
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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The Agony of Byzantium
1914
Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print
3.5/4
The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behin...
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Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print
Juve contre Fantômas
0/0
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Juve contre Fantômas
Fantômas - Le Mort qui tue
0/0
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Fantômas - Le Mort qui tue
Fantômas - Le Faux magistrat
0/0
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