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Georges Benoit

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Years active
  
1915 - 1942

Role
  
Cinematographer

Name
  
Georges Benoit

Died
  
1942

Born
  
27 November 1883
Paris, France

Occupation
  
Director Cinematographer

Movies
  
The Baker's Wife, Gribouille, Regeneration, Fanny, Princesse Tam‑Tam

Similar People
  
Maurice Tourneur, Marcel Pagnol, Jacques Tourneur, Ginette Leclerc, Raimu

Georges Benoit (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).

Benoit 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).

Selected filmography

  • The Charge of the Gauchos (1928)
  • Departure (1931)
  • In the Name of the Law (1932)
  • The Two Orphans (1933)
  • The Uncle from Peking (1934)
  • The Baker's Wife (1938)
  • References

    Georges Benoit Wikipedia