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Died 23 September 1950, Paris, France Movies Le p'tit Parigot, The Sultan of Love, La Dame de Monsoreau, The Bread Peddler Similar Charles Burguet, Gabriel Signoret, Marco de Gastyne, Suzanne Desprès, Gaston Modot | ||
René Eugène Le Somptier (12 November 1884, in Caen – 23 September 1950, in Paris) was a French filmmaker and journalist.
He made his first short film, Poum à la chasse, in 1908 with his father as an actor. He was injured in World War I and after the war together with Charles Burguet made his first full-length film, La sultane de l’amour (1918).
In 1922 he produced La dame de Montsoreau based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, starring Geneviève Félix. A colorized version was released in 1925.
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