Georges Benoît

Georges Benoît (27 November 1883 – 1942) was a French cinematographer who worked on more than sixty films during his career. During the silent era, he was employed mostly in Hollywood. Later he worked in his native France on films such as Jacques Tourneur's Departure (1931).[1] Between 1929 and 1934 he appeared in approximately ten films as an actor.

Georges Benoît
Anna Q. Nilsson and William Sheer in the American film Regeneration
Born	27 November 1883 Paris, France
Died	1942
Occupation	Director Cinematographer Actor
Years active	1915 - 1942

Benoît also worked in Argentina where he directed the 1919 film Juan Sin Ropa and was cinematographer for the historical epic The Charge of the Gauchos (1928).[2]

Selected filmography

• Regeneration (1915)
• Carmen (1915)
• The Serpent (1916)
• Blue Blood and Red (1916)
• When False Tongues Speak (1917)
• The Wonder Man (1920)
• The Little 'Fraid Lady (1920)
• What's a Wife Worth? (1921)
• Live and Let Live (1921)
• Trilby (1923)
• Welcome Stranger (1924) (*as George Benoit)
• Off the Highway (1925)
• West of Broadway (1926)
• Pals in Paradise (1926)
• The Speeding Venus (1926)
• Forbidden Waters (1926)
• The Danger Girl (1926)
• The Charge of the Gauchos (1928)
• Captain Fracasse (1929)
• Departure (1931)
• In the Name of the Law (1932)
• The Two Orphans (1933)
• The Uncle from Peking (1934)
• Return to Paradise (1935)
• Let's Make a Dream (1936)
• The Secret of Polichinelle (1936)
• The Baker's Wife (1938)

References

1. Fujiwara p.317
2. Finkielman p.81

Bibliography

• Finkielman, Jorge. The Film Industry in Argentina: An Illustrated Cultural History. McFarland, 2003.
• Fujiwara, Chris. Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. McFarland, 1998.

External links

• Georges Benoît on IMDb