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Jacques de Baroncelli

Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born June 25, 1881Died January 12, 1951 (69 years)
Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. His older brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon.

He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and, in the 1940s, released numerous films in the United States and Italy. One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel La Femme et le pantin (1928) was filmed in the experimental Keller-Dorian colour process.

Known For

  • The Cigarette
  • Volpone
  • Wicked Duchess
  • The Woman and the Puppet
  • The French Way
  • Island Fishermen
  • One Step to Eternity
  • Mysteries of Paris
  • I'll Be Alone After Midnight
  • The Sea Rose
  • Belle Étoile
  • In Old Alsace
  • Rocambole
  • Forbidden Love
  • Le rêve
  • L'Arlésienne
  • Nitchevo
  • Chansons de Paris

Filmography

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