Jacques Feyder
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Jacques Feyder 🇧🇪

Jacques Frédérix (Known as "Jacques Feyder")
Pioneering Film Director and Screenwriter, Master of Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque)
Born Jul 21, 1885 🇧🇪 Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Passed Away May 24, 1948 Prangins (Vaud), Switzerland
Lifespan 62 years old
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Renowned Belgian-born film director who helped shape European and Hollywood cinema with silent classics like L'Atlantide and Visages d'enfants, and directed the brilliant 1935 comedy La Kermesse héroïque.

Biographical Record

Son of a Belgian artillery officer, Feyder worked as a stage actor in Paris before directing films in 1916. In 1921, he directed the silent desert epic L'Atlantide in the Sahara, achieving massive European commercial success.

Invited to Hollywood by MGM, he directed Greta Garbo in her acclaimed final silent film The Kiss (1929) and her German-language Anna Christie (1930). Returning to France, his crowning achievement was La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders, 1935), a sumptuous seventeenth-century satire painted in the visual palette of Frans Hals and Pieter Bruegel.

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Rueil-Malmaison Cemetery
Hauts-de-Seine, France
GPS: 48.8778, 2.1833
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