Robert Ancelin (22 November 1898 – 25 January 1986) was a French actor and theater director. He was married with the

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from 1937 to 1942 and directing manager of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin from 1940 to 1949.

Filmography

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Hai-Tang ''Hai-Tang'', also known as ''Le Chemin du déshonneur'' (''The Road to Dishonour'') is a 1930 British-German drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and Jean Kemm and starring Anna May Wong, Marcel Vibert and Robert Ancelin.St. Pierre p.83 It ...

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Richard Eichberg Richard Eichberg (27 October 1888 – 8 May 1952) was a German film director and film producer, producer. He directed 87 films between 1915 and 1949. He also produced 77 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died i ...

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Jean Kemm Jean Kemm (15 May 1874–1939) was a French people, French stage and theater actor and film director. Kemm was born Jules Adolphe Félix Bécheret in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and died in Paris in 1939. Selected filmography

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as Boris Ivanoff * 1931 : '' Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique'' by

Roger Lion Roger Lion (27 September 1882 – 27 October 1934) was a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography * 1912 : ''L'Agence Cacahouète'' * 1914 : ''La Petite Bretonne'' * 1915 : ''À qui la femme?'' * 1916 : ''Sacré Joseph'' * 1916 : '' ...

as Jean Larivière * 1931 : ''

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Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German Jewish film director. His career spanned some 40 years, working extensively in the United States and France, as well as in his native country. Though he worked in many genres, he was ...

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Henri Chomette Henri Chomette (1896–1941) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the brother of the film director René Clair René Clair (; 11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette (), was a French filmmaker and w ...

as Klate *

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

: '' Y'a erreur'' by Joseph Tzipine (short film) * 1932 : '' Love and Luck'' by

Monty Banks Montague (Monty) Banks (born Mario Bianchi; 18 July 1897 – 7 January 1950) was a 20th century Italian-born American comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the United States and United Kingdom. Career Banks was bor ...

as Jackson * 1932 : '' Clochard'' by

Robert Péguy Marcel Robert Péguy (14 December 1883 – 21 July 1968), publicly known as Robert Péguy and occasionally credited as Marcel Robert, was a French film director best remembered for his output spanning various commercial genres during the 1920s an ...

as Poum * 1932 : ''

The Last Blow ''The Last Blow'' (French: ''Le dernier choc'') is a 1932 French drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Jean Murat, Danièle Parola and Robert Ancelin.Crisp p.393 A separate Spanish-language version ''Fog'' was also made. Syn ...

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Jacques de Baroncelli 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 buildi ...

as Lucien *

1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

: '' La Poule'' by René Guissart as Paul Cellier * 1933 : ''Vilaine histoire'' by

Christian-Jaque Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), ''M ...

(short film) as the amateur detective * 1933 : ''L'Empreinte sanglante'' by

Jean Mamy Jean Mamy (8 July 1912, Chambéry, Savoie – 29 March 1949, Arcueil) was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and journalist, notable for directing the anti-Masonic propaganda film ''Forces occultes'' u ...

(short film) as the amateur detective * 1933 : ''Deux blondes'' by

(short film) as the amateur detective * 1933 : ''Le Client du numéro 16'' by

(short film) * 1933 : ''Ce n'est pas lui'', anonymous direction (short film) * 1933 : ''L'Atroce Menace'' by

(short film) as the amateur detective *

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

: ''Crime d'amour'' by

Roger Capellani Roger Capellani (31 January 1905 – 30 May 1940) was a French film director, the son of film director and screenwriter Albert Capellani and the nephew of the actor Paul Capellani. He shot French versions of foreign films for the studios of the ...

(short film) * 1934 : ''Lui...ou...elle'' by Roger Capellani (court métrage) as the amateur detective *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

: ''Sans elle'' by M. Deleric (short film) * 1935 : '' La Bandera'' by

Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...

as the lieutenant * 1936 : '' Prince of the Six Days'' by

Robert Vernay Robert Vernay (May 30, 1907 in Paris – October 17, 1979 in Paris) was a French director and screenwriter. Career In 1937, Vernay worked as assistant director to Julien Duvivier on ''Pépé le Moko''. In 1944, Vernay directed an adaptation of ...

as Teddy, the barman *

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

: '' Café de Paris'' by

Yves Mirande Yves Mirande (Bagneux (8 May 1876 – 17 March 1957) was a French screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. Career Yves Mirande began his acting career in the theater, transitioning to movies in the silent era. Filmography * ''She Wolves'' ...

and Georges Lacombe *

1939 This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...

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La Loi du Nord ''La Loi du nord'' (, "The Law of the North"; also called ''La Piste du Nord'', "The Northern Trail") is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel " ...

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Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 193 ...

Theatre

;Comedian * 1930: '' Arsène Lupin banquier'',

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Albert Willemetz Albert Willemetz (14 February 1887 – 7 October 1964) was a French librettist. Career Albert Willemetz was a prolific lyricist. He invented a new type of musical, with a humorous and "sexy" style. He was the author of more than 3000 songs, inc ...

, composer Marcel Lattes after

Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French ...

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* 1942: '' Occupe-toi d'Amélie'' by

Georges Feydeau Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in a ...

, directed by Robert Ancelin, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1943: ''Pour avoir Adrienne'' by

Louis Verneuil Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Biography Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was b ...

, directed by Robert Ancelin, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin ;Theatre director * 1940: '' Le Bossu'' by

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Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 – 12 January 1871) was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris. The first play to bear his name is ''L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon'', a vaudeville piece in one a ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: '' Le Maître de forges'' by

Georges Ohnet Georges Ohnet (3 April 1848, in Paris – 5 May 1918) was a French novelist. Life and career Ohnet was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Napoléon. After the Franco-Prussian War he became editor of the magazi ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: '' The Two Orphans'' by

Adolphe d'Ennery Adolphe d'Ennery (; or Dennery; Adolphe Philippe; 17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Life Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ' ...

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Eugène Cormon Pierre-Étienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career. Cormon wrote dramas, comedies and, from the 1840s, libretti; around 1 ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: ''Mon curé chez les riches'' by

Clément Vautel Clément Vautel, pen name of Clément-Henri Vaulet (31 January 1876 – 23 December 1954) was a journalist, novelist and playwright of Belgian origin, naturalized French (1897).According to the bibliographic notice published in ) Biography Clé ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: '' La Porteuse de pain'' by

Xavier de Montépin Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin (10 March 1823 in Apremont, Haute-Saône – 30 April 1902 in Paris) was a popular French novelist.''Merriam Webster's Biographical Dictionary'' (1995) The author of serialised novels (feuilletons) ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: ''Le Contrôleur des wagons-lits'' and ''Les Surprises du divorce'' by

Alexandre Bisson Alexandre Bisson (9 April 1848 – 27 January 1912) was a French playwright, vaudeville creator, and novelist. Born in Briouze, Orne in Lower Normandy, he was successful in his native France as well as in the United States. Remembered as a sig ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1941: ''Les Deux Gosses'' by

Pierre Decourcelle Pierre Adrien Decourcelle (Paris, 25 January 1856 – Ibid., 10 October 1926) was a French writer and playwright. Life Pierre Adrien Decourcelle was born in Paris on 25 January 1856. His father, Adrien Decourcelle, and his uncle, Adolphe d'Enn ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1942: ''La Bouquetière des Innocents'' by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and

Ferdinand Dugué Ferdinand Dugué (18 February 1816 – 5 December 1913) was a 19th-century French poetry, French poet and playwright. He wrote poetry and both comic and dramatic plays, some of them in collaboration. He also authored studies about historic person ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1942: ''

Occupe-toi d'Amélie! ''Occupe-toi d'Amélie'' is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris on 15 March 1908, and ran for 288 performances. After the author's death it was neglected until the 1940s, after whic ...

'' by

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1942: ''Et moi je te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'œil'' by

Maurice Hennequin Maurice Hennequin (10 December 1863 – 3 September 1926) was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright. Biography A great-grandson of the painter Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, Maurice Hennequin was the son of Alfred Hennequin (1842–1887), himse ...

and

Pierre Veber Pierre-Eugène Veber (15 May 1869 – 20 August 1942) was a French playwright and writer. Biography Pierre Veber was the brother of the painter Jean Veber, and the brother-in-law of both René Doumic and Tristan Bernard. His family was quite l ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1943: ''Pour avoir Adrienne'' by

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1943: ''Mon oncle et mon curé'' by

Jean de La Brète Jean de La Brète (pen name of Alice Cherbonnel; 1858–1945) was a pseudonymous French writer of novels for young women. Her best-known work, ' (1889), went through several editions and was adapted to stage and screen. Early life Alice Cherbonne ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1943: ''Le Pavillon d'Asnières'' by

Charles Méré Charles Méré (29 January 1883 – 2 October 1970) was a French film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Biography Méré was born in Marseille, France, and was president of the ''Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques'' (Socie ...

after

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1943: ''Mon curé chez les riches'' after the novel by

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1945: ''

A Flea in Her Ear ''A Flea in Her Ear'' () is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described ...

'' by

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin * 1948: ''Un p'tit mari en or'' by

André Mouëzy-Éon André Mouëzy-Éon (9 June 1880 – 23 October 1967) was a French dramatist, author of comedies, librettist, screenwriter and dialoguist. Biography André Mouëzy-Éon begins his career by writing short plays for the Théâtre de Cluny, loca ...

, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin

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